The book is about how Arab terrorist easily get into The Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, graduate and the go to Kirkland Air Force Base, where factually the US keeps most of its nuclear weapons. They manage to steal 6 nuclear bombs. They also manage to get the USA presidency secret code for activating nuclear bombs. They explode nuclear bombs and destroy the cities of New York and Washington. They fail in destroying other cities, The postscript deal with the USA response to the Arabs and America's slow rebuild.