World Shaking Volume One: The End

In the 22nd century, the world is at peace. The World Government buys the lands of the Al-Bakhtari tribe to use a s a nuclear repository. It is learned the tribe carries a genetic disease that causes death at an early age. A world-famous geneticist uses DNA manipulation to cure the disease and discovers that the tribe possesses a gene for telepathy. The book ends when a poorly packaged nuclear device is dropped at the repository, causing a critical mass that sets off an immense blast destroying the earth. A small group of survivors on earth and at lunar stations joins together to build spaceships large enough to reach an exoplanet four and one half light years distant.