The novel “Ground Zero Man” by Bob Shaw was published for the first time in 1971. In 1985 it was republished in a new revised version under the title “The Peace Machine”. Lucas Hutchman is a mathematician who works for a British missile project and one day discovers a way to detonate all the nuclear warheads in the world. When a nuclear bomb explodes in Damascus, he decides to build the machine that triggers the detonation but he must do it in secret not only from government agents but also from his wife even if his strange behavior stimulates her strong jealousy more than ever.