"Food riots broke out 4 1/2 weeks after the attacks -- precipitated by the first large shipment of grain. . . .
"One day, quite without warning, the city manager was informed that one-half of his fuel stores were to be confiscated by the Federal Government, for the military and for the reconstruction effort. . . .
"In Charlottesville alone, several thousand people died in the first winter after the nuclear attack. . . .
"It was clear that if the economy did not get moving again soon, it might never. Already there were indications that manufacturing was not reestablishing itself with anywhere near the speed the planners had hoped. . . .
"'We will have survived biologically, but our way of life is going to be unrecognizable. In several generations, the United States is going to resemble a late medieval society.'"
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