Post 9-11 Reception
James Sallis, writing in the Boston Globe, discusses how prescient Russell now seems. The Wasp "gives off jolts of shock that Russell could not have anticipated." Sallis quoted Russell,
"Mail would be examined, and all suspicious parcels would be taken apart in a blast-proof room. There'd be a city-wide search with radiation-detectors for the component parts of a fission bomb. Civil defence would be alerted in readiness to cope with a mammoth explosion that might or might not take place. Anyone on the streets who walked with a secretive air and wore a slightly mad expression would be arrested and hauled in for questioning."
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