Renegade ex-U.S. soldiers, paramilitary who call themselves the People's Liberation Army, take control on August 14, 1977 of the fictitious Bartonsville Fast-Breed Reactor just 32 miles northwest of Pittsburgh. “Their To destroy the plant and release a deadly radioactive cloud over Pittsburgh and much of Pennsylvania,” reads the dust jacket. “Their $50,000,000 and safe passage out of the United States. Their real To steal one ton of weapons’ grade plutonium produced by the plant and to turn it over to a black market arms cartel that would sell it to Third World nations hungry for nuclear weapons.”