MOLLY (MO) WILSON
Secretary & Fiance of Ned Sneedly

Molly works as a secretary to Edward Sneedly, Executive Director of Dynamic Security Systems, International, to whom she is engaged. Molly is an intelligent, lively woman who grew up during the optimism of the 50's and the insecurity of the 60's. She has now created a composite reality from those two and finds her only island of security in Ned, with his positive vision of the nuclear world. She hides the seeds of her own doubt about the world and any responsibility for it beneath a facade of good-natured, but staunch, apathy.

EDWARD (NED) SNEEDLY
Exec. Dir. Dynamic Security Systems

Ned is Molly's boss and fiance. An entrepreneur and nuclear physicist, he is deeply in love with Molly and determined to save her and America from destruction at the hands of the Communists. Should the worst happen (something he almost longs for), he believes that a nuclear war could be survived by a few forward-thinking souls and maybe that's the best way to purge the world of existing evils and start the race anew. Overtly, Ned is completely self-confident and self-assured, certain that he is in the right profession at the right time doing the right thing for the world -- but underneath, there are moments when he begins to wonder.

SHEILA LEEBURT
The Number One Zero

A young woman full of energy and great sincerity. She takes her responsibilities to the world very seriously and enthusiastically. Her outlet for her social conscience is a daily letter to the President, questioning and challenging current issues and policies. She has become discouraged at receiving only form letters in return and disillusioned that they don't seem to relate in any way to the issues she writes about. She is the primary disciple of Octavia and the Zero Club.

PETE WILSON
Molly's Brother

Molly's younger brother who lives in the mid-west. He's visiting Molly for two weeks, ostensibly to help her make arrangements for her impending wedding to Ned, but Pete's secretly hoping to pursuade Molly to come with him to Idaho to live. Pete is a good-natured survivalist and feels that a good, simple life in a completely isolated location is the only answer. He's found a town in Idaho that is so isolated and unimportant that he feels it's safe from fallout. He's admired his big sister his whole life, but is horrified that she's about to marry a nuclear arms entrepreneur.

ADELE
Sheila's Sidekick

Whatever Sheila does, Adele wants to do it with her. She's a gung-ho Zero.

THE ZEROS

The Zeros are a band of happy-go-lucky, theatrical nuclear war protestors. They spend all their free time at the Zero Club, where they practice theatre routines to perform at demonstrations, print leaflets and plot new ways to thwart the nuclear arms race.