Zombie War

In the first half of the show, Ian was joined by

researcher and author of The Zombie Survival

Guide, Max Brooks, for a War of the Worlds-style

radio report on World War Z, the war with the

zombies. Brooks, who documented the oral history

of these events*, said the zombie plague originated

at a lake in China, where a man and his son were

diving for relics. The father disappeared, the boy

came up with a bite mark on his foot, and from there

it spread, he noted. According to Brooks, the Chinese

government covered up the ensuing outbreak and

never alerted the international community to the

impending worldwide apocalypse.
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Many countries fell to the walking plague, Brooks

continued, including Japan, North Korea, and part

of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains.

Israel was one of the few nations to initiate a

nationwide quarantine in time, extending a security

fence around the entire country (1967 borders). The

island nation of Cuba came through unscathed,

Brooks added. In all, the zombie war decimated the

human population and, even though the worst of it

is over, the undead still pose a significant threat to

humanity.
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Brooks said land areas known as "White Zones" remain

infested with zombies. The walking dead roam the ocean

floor as well, perhaps in the millions, he warned. Colder

areas of the planet must deal with outbreaks every spring,

when frozen zombies thaw out and begin searching for

humans to consume. Brooks also briefly spoke about some

of the heroes of the war, the role religion played during the

crisis, and how the U.N. has assisted in the rebuilding process.
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*The events depicted in this story are fictitious. Any

similarity between persons living and (un) dead is purely

coincidental.

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