Will Nukes America: The First 40,000

We're going through the first 40,000 words of the Great Nuclear War of 1975. We like what we have. There's a lot of one off vignettes, Clarence in a seller outside of Houston. A middle aged couple dying outside of a hospital. We have a military NBC team making its way to the White House. Grim stuff. The problem is these scenes are a bit disjointed. They lack something to link them all together.

There's a lot of setting up the government. We mean physically, we'll turn Caspar HS into the Western White House, Comms go in the cafeteria, etc etc. Caspar grows quick.

There's a lot of Nelson Rockefeller, once a giant of American politics, but now fading. We need to give him more character, we know plenty about him. He's actually the right man for rebuilding America. Rockefeller loved ideas and meetings and commissions. There's an interesting angle, we think, with a son by his first wife. Rockefeller's original kids resented the way he spent more time with the new kids than he ever did with them.

We also have lots of foreign dealing and political intrigue. Rumsfeld and Cheney vs Cannon and Perkins. They'll need to rebuild the government. Probably pick a Dem for VP, no? Frank Church? Scoop Jackson?

We think necessary additions will bump the word count up to 50,000 before we even complete the pipeline chapter.