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But the history books will have to write themselves on this one… I don't know who it was and now don't care…because one other point all we strategic planners and analysts missed was that nuclear winter didn't mean the end of anything…anything at all…just that you'd be careful to not use nukes anymore… Used to say that love would find away…but one thing I know…war will find a way, too…and this time the Soviets loaded lots of their warheads with biowar stuff, canisters fixed to blow high above cities…stuff your satellite defenses could at best riddle with shot but not destroy utterly, as they could the high explosive in nuke warheads… All so simple…if you know there's a nuke winter limit on the megatonnage you can deliver…you use the nukes on C31 targets and silos…and then biowar the rest of your way… A joke, really…I even laughed over it a few times myself…we'd placed so much hope in ol' nuke winter holding the line…rational as all hell…the scenarios all so clean…easy to calculate…we built our careers on them… But this other way…so simple…and no end to it…and all I hope's…hope's…the bastard started this…some Third World general…caught some of the damned stuff, too…