Steven Wilde
Author | Riverton, Utah, USA |
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I grew up in Salt Lake City and graduated from the University of Utah with a bachelor’s degree in engineering. My wife, Marilyn, and I have five children and fifteen grandchildren. Together we enjoy camping, hiking, travel, and get-togethers with extended family. In my quiet time, I enjoy gardening, genealogy, emergency preparedness, readi.... more
I grew up in Salt Lake City and graduated from the University of Utah with a bachelor’s degree in engineering. My wife, Marilyn, and I have five children and fifteen grandchildren. Together we enjoy camping, hiking, travel, and get-togethers with extended family. In my quiet time, I enjoy gardening, genealogy, emergency preparedness, reading, and now, writing. I love to read, and enjoy most genres, particularly murder mysteries and science fiction.
My work as a project manager has given me exposure to multiple industries and specialties, including electric utilities, nuclear power plant construction, water management, global mining, and aerospace, with each of those experiences contributing to my interest in, and the broad perspective needed to write about, the potential effects of global thermonuclear war on the infrastructure and people of the world.
The premise of this story is that, faced with the prospect of nuclear weapons in the hands of madmen, the U.S. government chooses to confront the perpetrators and fight back, rather than sit idly and be abused. Like you, I hope we never see nuclear war. However, what we see in today’s headlines led me to speculate on the ability—or inability—of government leaders to control the radical ideologies that threaten to engulf us in world war.