The New Republic Says Heinlein's Desire to Show Racism

Hugh farnum, a white middle aged man, holds a bridge club party for his alcoholic wife. Duke verates hugh for frightening grace by preparing for a possible soviet nuclear attack. After several distant nuclear explosions rocked to shelter, hugh and barbara become sexually intimate. The group decides to insure that they will be able to leave the shelter when necessary. after exiting through an emergency tunnel, they find themselves in a completely undamaged semi tropical region apparently uninhabited by humans or other sentient creatures. Several of the groups speculate that the final explosion somehow force them inmu and so it is controversial.