Mr. Adam

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Mr. Adam (1946) is the first novel written by Pat Frank dealing with the effects of a nuclear mishap causing worldwide male infertility. The work was initially published by J. B. Lippincott Company, but was reprinted once in 1959 by Pocket Books under the title Mr. Adam Was Wanted By Every Woman in the World.

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After a nuclear power plant in Mississippi explodes, it's soon realized that a previously unknown form of radiation is released. The new form of radiation has caused all men on Earth to become sterile, even boys that are still inside the mother's womb. After nine months of the explosion no more children are born, until a doctor delivers a perfectly healthy baby girl more than 10 months after the explosion in Mississippi.

It's soon discovered that the child's father, who has the surname Adam was miles under the surface of Earth inside a iron mine the day of the explosion. It would appear that this Mr. Adam is humanity's only hope to stave off extinction.