World War III

" East Germany: tanks massing, allegedly in response to 'Western Alarmism'" (panel 3, page 3, chapter 10).

By referring to possible military problems in Germany, Moore is pushing the reader into connecting the issues of the story to the beginning of a war. Unfortunately for Germany, when anyone links military happenings to Germany, people immediately make a quick connection to WWII. This connection is showing the reader that the world is very fragile, and that even the slightest mistake could begin our worst nightmare, World War III. Other connections are also present in the novel between WWII and the characters reality. The most apparent is that both eras were run by atomic power. WWII was when the bomb was invented and the only time it has actually been used. Another use of the bomb would indicate the arrival of WWIII.