Prorogatio

Those that had the secret word "Prorogatio"on a chain around their neck belonged to a world of chosen elite for special life-prolonging surgery that would keep them going until the medical research papers of Dr Reichmann were found. The world population was too great to share the secret of immortality, and the answer was a pseudo nuclear war to rid the world of unwanted billions. The son of a Jew who knew Dr Reichmann in a concentration camp found out the long range plan and set out to thwart the instigators.