Nuclear War Vs Ebola Analysis

Sudden. Severe. Shocking. In one swift moment, “a stark white flash enveloped their world” (Frank 94). In Pat Frank’s Alas, Babylon, it shows the effects of a sudden disaster can change a man or woman into a survival based lifestyle. How far could one go to survive? What can we do to avoid falling into a survival based lifestyle? A person’s response to a disaster depends on the severity of that disaster. It is shocking to think that such an event that happened in Alas, Babylon was almost a reality in the United States. During the Cold War, the United States population did not know what would happen in the war of no violence. As said in, Nuclear War: A Greater Threat than Ebola, today it is not the detonation of a single nuclear weapon that we must fear. Technology has advanced since the Cold War and people should be more afraid today than what they were before. Why are we not as afraid? Could it be the …show more content…
“At a recent World Medical Association meeting there was more focus on Ebola and Ebola-like diseases.” (World 14) Cures can be found and sent out for these diseases, but what is the cure for nuclear annihilation? Survival is a cure. In Alas, Babylon, it shows how men and women from different backgrounds can work together and fight for survival. The book demonstrates how the simple caring for everyone can turn to only caring for themselves. In the book, Randy is faced with seeing a dead woman on the side of the road, “Yesterday, he would have stopped instantly.” (Frank 97) Randy realizes that the few minutes it would take to stop and check the woman could prove vital into his own survival. Randy knows he must not waste time with pity and get to the ones he loves and keep them