2045

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On the 100th anniversary of nuclear bombing of Hiroshima a dissident group takes over a missile base and fires an ICBM at New York. This starts a global chain reaction of nuclear & biological attack & response. Remote Cooktown wakes next day to the news that most major cities in the world have been largely destroyed by nuclear attack. Two men travel south and find towns there have been hit by biological warfare, one of them contracting tularemia as a result. Cooktown plans to become self-sufficient in food and water, using wind turbines for power, and horses for transport and farming. New crops are planted and new houses built for stranded tourists and survivors who arrive from remote Australia and New Guinea. After conflict occurs over debt a new egalitarian society is established with a 20-hour working week, a revolutionary education policy is formed, and the world's first true democracy is established. Religion is replaced by new fairness and good behaviour laws. The end of the year comes and life in Cooktown has never been better. The legendary aeronautical engineer John Argyris called "The greatest scientist in Australia" and "The hope of the