Nuke Thy Neighbor
July, 1970
The White House Basement, 7:30 A.M., May 17, 1971"Let me make my position perfectly clear," the President told me, shortly before dawn. "My Administration was completely prepared for a nuclear confrontation with any of the big three--Russia, China or Texas--but this unwarranted belligerence from the private sector has, unfortunately, caught us with our ABMs down."The President and I are the last ones remaining here. He refuses to leave, insisting that the captain must go down...
