Three couples in distinctly different parts of the world, Fayetteville, Arkansas; Washington, D.C.; and the United Arab Emirates; become involved and entangled in a terrorist plot to destroy the Western Civilization. The terrorist couple, Amahi and Lattah, using drug money, buy eight nuclear warheads from the Russian mafia. They manage to plant the warheads in the eight cities they have designated as the decadent representatives of Western Civilization. Jessica and Rob West are pre-med students at the University of Arkansas. On a vacation trip to New England and through many of the eastern states, they have a chance encounter with Cheryl and Scott Crockett. Cheryl manages a travel agency in Washington, D.C. and Scott supposedly works in the State Department, but is actually an officer in the CIA. The two couples enjoyed their time together and made promises to get together again. They had no way of knowing how much time they would spend together nor of the pending terror of the nuclear bombs. Many common people step forward to do their part in an attempt to find the warheads and avert a Western Civilization holocaust.