Will King looked around at the half a dozen men and women who made up his staff at the Oz Press semi-weekly — which, despite the name, usually came out every other week, or so.   They had seen no

need for a fancy title for the newspaper after the holocaust had wiped out most of humanity.

At the desk on Will’s left sat his assistant, Debra Wardlock.   A beautiful strawberry-blonde, with emerald green eyes and skin so pink it always looked as though she had just stepped out of a piping hot bath.

Sensing that she was under scrutiny, Debra turned to glare at Will, who immediately returned to his thoughts about the first article that he had promised to write for the United States newspaper, The American.

Will remembered their first contact with the Americans after the holocaust. it had been around noon, a month earlier, when an enormous black shape had appeared overhead, causing the bible-bashers to begin praying even harder than ever for salvation from the Armageddon.

Instead of the angel of death, however, the black shape turned out to be an U.S. news team on a world-wide search for survivors of the holocaust, using a supersonic SR-71, “Black Bird” bomber, the aeroplane which had been responsible for the hundreds of UFO sightings world-wide, from the early 1960s right through until late 1984, when the U.S. government had finally confessed that they were responsible for the sightings, and the reason they had put the lid on official UFO investigations such as Project Blue-Book, was that they had known all along that UFOs were their own stealth reconnaissance bombers.   (Although this admission was rejected out of hand by UFO-watchers and sundry other kooks, who continued to insist UFOs originated from outer space, the fifth dimension, inside the North Pole, or, according to the religious-orientated, from heaven — since, they argued, UFOs really herald the eminent second coming of Christ.)

Ironically the radar-invisible “Black Bird” was also the main bomber used by the USA during the short duration of World War Three.

Since the early 1950s bad science fiction writers and political hysterics of all persuasions have been predicting the arrival of the Third World War.   Even Albert Einstein is accredited with having said when asked (not long before his death in 1955), “I don’t know what weapons will be used to fight the Third World War, but World War Four will be fought with bows and arrows and stone clubs…if that!”