With President Owens and Vice President Fox in office for only twenty-one months, all hell breaks loose in the United States. Suicide bombers strike in dozens of American cities on the same morning during rush-hour traffic by blowing up commuter busses that kill hundreds of people and cause a wave of nationwide terror. Three days later, two horrendous nuclear-bomb blasts level the Pentagon and White House, killing thousands of people in and around Washington, D.C. Is Armageddon upon us?