2045

? On the 100th anniversary of nuclear bombing of Hiroshima a dissident group takes over a missile base and fires an ICBM at New York.
? This starts a global chain reaction of nuclear & biological attack & response.
? Remote Cooktown wakes next day to the news that most major cities in the world have been largely destroyed by nuclear attack.
? Two men travel south and find towns there have been hit by biological warfare, one of them contracting tularemia as a result.
? Cooktown plans to become self-sufficient in food and water, using wind turbines for power, and horses for transport and farming.
? New crops are planted and new houses built for stranded tourists and survivors who arrive from remote Australia and New Guinea.
? After conflict occurs over debt a new egalitarian society is established with a 20-hour working week, a revolutionary education policy is formed, and the world's first true democracy is established.
? Religion is replaced by new fairness and good behaviour laws.
? The end of the year comes and life in Cooktown has never been better.
The legendary aeronautical engineer John Argyris called Geoff:
"The greatest scientist in Australia"
and "The hope of the