John Wyndham's The Chrysalids Tribulation Vs. Nuclear War

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The Chrysalids Tribulation Vs. Nuclear War The people of Waknuk are irrational and are oblivious to the fact that their beliefs are aimless. Waknuk is located in Labrador just outside of the place the old people call the Fringes. What the people of waknuk thought happened to the world was punishment from god, they called this tribulation. Their thoughts on tribulation had no proof, other than a book called The Repentances which they had no idea where it was from, only that it was from the old peoples time. Tribulation was most likely nuclear war because radiation is probably causing these deviations in the book The landforms also match up to what looks to be Labrador Canada. The people of Sealand could have been post apocalyptic survivors as well as just not following a blind faith. Radiation in the book proves to be the most probable scenario when it comes to the deviations in the book. The Black Coasts in the book are the detonation site of the bomb. They are so full of radiation that some parts of the Black Coasts have been turned to glass because of such an intense heat c...

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