California Dreaming

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The ‘Timeline 10/27/62 — USA Series’ is an alternative history of the modern world and because of this real historical characters are referenced and in some cases their words and actions form significant and substantial parts of the narrative. I have no way of knowing if these real, historical figures, would have spoken thus, or acted in the ways I depict them acting. Any word I place in the mouth of a real historical figure, and any action which I attribute to them on or after 27th October 1962 never actually happened. As I always say in my Author’s Notes to my readers, I made it up in my own head.

There was no more securely or closely guarded and monitored compartment on the Ethan Allen class Polaris missile submarine USS Sam Houston — SSBN-609 — than the ‘radio shack’. Of course, the ‘shack’ was anything but ramshackle, and the equipment crammed into every conceivable corner of the small space adjacent to the control room was so state of the art that it was likely to remained classified for decades to come.

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