One of America&s greatest writers gives us his unique perspective on our fears of nuclear annihilation Experiment Told with deadpan humour & bitter irony Kurt Vonnegut&s cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon & worse still surviving it Solution Dr Felix Hoenikker one of the founding fathers of the atomic bomb has left a deadly legacy to the world For he is the inventor of ice-nine a lethal chemical capable of freezing the entire planet The search for its whereabouts leads to Hoenikker&s three eccentric children to a crazed dictator in the Caribbean to madness Felix Hoenikker&s death-wish comes true when his last fatal gift to mankind brings about an end that for all of us is nigh