This is the Sequence of Events for the Book "Alas, Babylon"

1.<Tab/>Florence Wecheck saw a news telecast saying Russians sent up another Putnik, and there is crisis in the Middle East. 2.<Tab/>Randy recieves a telegram telling him to meet at a local Air Force base at noon, but it concludes with "Alas Babylon." That is a family signal. 3.<Tab/>Florence tells Alice about the telegram and they look it up in the …

…the captured man is hanged a day later. 24.<Tab/>Admirals ham radio goes out. Randy finds an ancestors diary that tells where a beach of salt is. 25.<Tab/>Paul Hart, Randy's old friend shows up in a helicopter. He tells him all of what happen, and that Mark did not make it. 26.<Tab/>Randy asks who won, and Paul says, "We clobbered them!"