Seven California High School Students were in detention when the lights went out, the ceiling collapsed, and they were trapped in overturned desks and the debris. They struggled in the cave like darkness of the basement classroom, choking on the dust. This was not an earthquake, but a Nuclear Attack. David Phelps swallowed his panic. He knew they would have to work together to escape from the rubble. Then they would have to shelter for 14 days to survive the fallout. If, as he feared, their parents were dead, then they should trek east. Hopefully staying together.They would have to adapt, improvise, and overcome. They did not know, or like, each other. The four men and three women were together only because they had been sentenced to detention. They became the Nuclear War Club.