Level 7 is a 1959science fictionnovel by Mordecai Roshwald[?]. It describes the experiences of a man who is ordered to pull the trigger in World War III, and his remaining life and death as the radioactive fallout from above eats its way slowly down into his underground radiation shelter, level by level.
... on May 24, 1864. On May 10, 1873, at his request, he was permitted to travel to Molokai to help the lepers who had virtually nothing to keep them warm or fed. ...