Word: 1990s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shocking as it may be to her disciplined following of rationalists, Lessing is coming out for ESP, and fearless as ever, she writes her way right into the 1990s to prove her point. Like Mark's maps come to life, Lessing depicts most centers of civilization as destroyed by nuclear and bacterial chaos. Survivors huddle together in remote regions, and a human mutant begins to flourish: a people in touch with the past and the future not through signs or portents but through a consciousness expanded to link the past with the future...
...since by the 1990s as many as 50 countries may belong to the nuclear club, there is also a real possibility of atomic war-directed, most probably, by one small, adventurous state against another of the same kind: "While the balance of terror is a great deterrent to conservative powers, to a reckless power the balance of terror may look like an opportunity or shield behind which it can get away with a good deal." In the event of nuclear war between two major powers-not necessarily involving the U.S. or Russia-the world is likely to survive...