Another journey into the realm of the strange and terrifying.

I hope you will enjoy the trip that it will thrill you a little and chill you a little.

So settle back.

Get a good grip on your nerves.

Where are we going?

You'll find out when we get there.

Theircée Come in. Welcome. I'm E.G. Marshall.

No one can ever forget the shock and horror of the first nuclear bomb produced by World War II.

Now we realize that wars generate new and unwelcome surprises, dilemmas, which we must face and solve.

As a rule, they're ugly problems.

But there was a war in the not-so-distant future that sprang a bomb which might have been the salvation and delight of mankind

if the top brass had known how to handle it.

Our mystery drama, now you see them, now you don't.

Was written especially for the mystery theater by Alfred Bester

and stars Robert Dryden and Leon Janie.

Professor Harry Scrimm is serving 20 years hard labor in Alcatraz, which was reactivated for the conscientious objectors to World War 5.

This is his story to tell because Dr. Scrim solved solved the mystery of the fantastic bombshell, which burst on the Western world in the year 2175.

This one wasn't the last war or the war to end wars.

They didn't even call it WW5.

No, it was, quote,

The War for the American Dream, end quote.

General Harp invented that slogan and repeated it over and over again.

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