Hardy Boys 11: While the Clock Ticked (The Hardy Boys)

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About this time an ambitious young reporter from New York arrived one morning at Gatsby’s door and asked him if he had anything to say.

Kanika to Fenton: My time in the Circle is over. I assure you of that. A warning, though. There are pieces still in play in this town where your children, half-Estabrooks, live. So, a word to the wise, Mr. Hardy. The Eye. People have done unthinkable things for it. He explicitly identified his synchronization convention as a matter of definition. Later, Hans Reichenbach showed that other arbitrary synchronization conventions are also possible and that no physical experiment could choose between them. Reichenbach’s convention was further refined by Anderson.The dog ran upstairs, hysterically yelping to each door, at last realizing, as the house realized, that only silence was here. It sniffed the air and scratched the kitchen door. Behind the door, the stove was making pancakes which filled the house with a rich odor and the scent of maple syrup. The dog frothed at the mouth, lying at the door, sniffing, its eyes turned to fire. It ran wildly in circles, biting at its tail, spun in a frenzy, and died. It lay in the parlor for an hour

The story portrays a scene of obliteration, in which the human race has been destroyed by a nuclear war. The fear of the devastating effects of nuclear force was typical of the Cold War era. The world was still recovering from the effects of World War II and events, such as the dropping of atomic bombs in Japan, were fresh in the minds of citizens throughout the world. In 1945, the United States released a nuclear bomb over the city of Hiroshima that destroyed nearly everything in the city. Three days later, Nagasaki was also bombed. Tens of thousands of people died as a direct result of the bombings, a quarter of a million more perished of radiation poisoning within 30 days. Even though the war ended shortly after these events, the fear of retaliation and the increasing focus on the development of nuclear weapons by many military powers world wide produced fear in the minds of people. After the war, tension increased between the two major military powers of the time, the U.S.S.R. and its satellite states, and NATO including the United States, culminating in the Cold War. This was a time of uncertainty, and the possibility of nuclear war was a daily fear.But the fire was clever. It had sent flames outside the house, up through the attic to the pumps there. An explosion! The attic brain which directed the pumps was shattered into bronzeshrapnel on the beams. Time runs slower when you move at some speed. And time runs slower if you enter a field of gravity.