A savage Armory break-in left behind only dead soldiers. Dr. Brian Steel (who's civilian authority carried the Presidents' signature) leads the manhunt for Major General George R. Stevenson. An MLRS Multiple Rocket System with 4 M270 Missile Launchers was stolen. Suddenly another deadly break-in, this time at a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant. Enough nuclear material was stolen to fabricate a single fission bomb with a yield 60 times greater than the Hiroshima blast. The blackmail demands followed, demands that could never be met. As each deadline passed, missiles began launching. The nation...