Post #224398 by Hau 'oli Tiki on Sat, Apr 1, 2006 9:31 AM

Very good BigBro! The story has elements of fact.
The island was actually Fangataufa. French Polynesian. The French tested there for decades and have been cleaning it up, supposedly.
Of course, the dates are set around the very real Pearl Harbor bombing.
The date of 2-11-87 nuclear testing at Nevada was a real test date.
The trust language and scholarship bond is stuff I deal w/everyday, as I am a Conservator, Trustee and Fiduciary manager for many people.
I enjoy fictional writing w/ semi elements of truth. Got that from reading Dean Koontz, as he centered a lot of his stories in and around Orange County. Including the very Canyon (Silverado) I grew up in! Kinda creeped me out that he had the undead walking in the hills of my back yard! I usually go to Wikipedia and enter a date or location and just see what happened around there/that time.
The nuclear stuff is probably gleaned from watching the X Files too much back in the 90's.
And I lived in Nevada for a few years and saw some strange things....but that's another story.....