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The Answer

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The latest generation does not know how privileged it is to have avoided the fear and paranoia of the fifties and early sixties. Schools around the country regularly held "duck and cover" drills, where the students were taught to get down on get down on their knees and cover the back of their neck with their hands. As if that would do a great deal to protect you against a nuclear blast.

This story is set at the height of the nuclear arms race where the race is not in numbers but in the power of the blasts. Each side sets off the most powerful nuclear blast yet and there on one casualty of each blast, a humanoid with wings. Neither side really knows how to deal with a dead angel; there are discussions about how much to reveal and some studying of the bodies in an attempt to learn the truth. However, circumstances dictate that neither side is able to learn any details about the mysterious visitors and each one leaves behind a book.

This book is a metaphor for the semi-controlled insanity that permeated the Cold War and points out that the paranoia was so great that it is likely that even semi-divine intervention could not have stopped it. The latest generation will have no idea what this book is about unless they have studied history in depth, those that lived through it will relive a part of their lives.