World Without Doomsday (1983: Doomsday)



The Audacity of Hope: A Soviet Soldier In a World Without Doomsday is a 2010 alternate history novel written by Jon Gosselin of. It is a story about a Soviet officer who prevents Doomsday from happening and subsequently lives in a world where nuclear war had not happened. It was praised by critics for its account of a world without Doomsday and exploring the possibilities of such a world.

Plot
On September 26, 1983, Yan Goselinov, a young Soviet lieutenant in a missile detection installation somewhere outside Moscow, detects five incoming missiles on his scope. After the initial panic, he tells his subordinates not to report the incident, believing it to be a false alarm. This is later proven to be true by a mechanic, and Goselinov faints at the revelation. He wakes up in his home being tended to by his wife Katya. He tells her the events in the installation and makes her promise not to tell anybody.

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