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                         The Last Days of L.A.

                          BY GEORGE H. SMITH

                _Murder on a small scale may be illegal
                and unpleasant, but mass murder can be
              the most exhilarating thing in the world!_

           [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from
             Worlds of If Science Fiction, February 1959.
         Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that
         the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]


You are having the same recurring dream, the dream that has haunted
the whole world since that day in 1945. The dream of the sudden flash
in the night, the rising mushroom cloud and then annihilation. You
are living the nightmare again but this time it's true, you know it's
true. You can't be dreaming. The bombs are actually falling and huge
fireballs are sweeping upward w