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“The peace loving people of Russia have watched and sent assistance to North Dakota, our people have told President Puten, no more, our people have told our government they don’t want the same or worse fate to happen again. Please look at these videos from Minot, our close friend, the LSA, was the first country on the site; they delivered medical support within minutes of the explosion. The LSA doctors and nurses recorded many of these images. I want to warn you that many of these images are very hard to watch.”

The video from Minot is shown on four theater sized screens in the Security Council meeting room and on eight screens in the General Assembly. The world’s media, both broadcast and internet are also invited to watch the video. The media is handed DVD copies of what they’re about to see. The video opens with images of the silo, a black hole in the ground; everything 2 miles around the black hole is burned black with nothing standing. As the camera moves further from ground zero, bodies or parts of bodies can be seen from the air. Buildings are either shells or broken foundations, no building above a few feet remains standing. The camera moves further away from ground zero, the images show severely burned people wandering around, most have no facial features; many are burned black from head to toe, they’re naked, their clothing having been burned or blasted off of them. A school full of screaming burned children. The camera’s lens records the devastation, the horrible burns, the firestorm burning out of control in the city of Minot. Images of people trying to get into a small river. The river appears black from the people trying to get relief in the dirty water.

The video continues on ground level from the LSA doctors and nurses trying to assist the injured. The camera scans the lines of injured which goes as far as the camera can scan. Everywhere the camera looks is filled with injured, broken bodies, burned bodies, the destroyed landscape and the burning city. Smoke hangs in the air like fog. The images of the burned children cause many in the audience to cry and become ill. A few can’t watch the images any longer; they have to leave the meeting room to get some fresh air. The Russian delegate sees them leave, he pauses the video, “You can leave the room, you can get a breath of fresh air, you can take a drink of clean, cool water, the people of Minot can’t do any of these things. These people are locked into a permanent nightmare. Most will die a very horrible death. Most won’t live for another week. What did these innocent people do to deserve hell being unleashed in their town? Who’s responsible for this? I’ll tell you who’s responsible. We are all responsible; we’ve allowed these monstrous weapons to existing for more than 70 years. The peace loving people of the Russian Federation didn’t want these weapons, however, we had no choice, as long as the United States built these weapons and aimed then at our people, we had no choice but to build our own.

“The time has come to say; this level of suffering should never happen again. We, the United Nations of the Earth have responsibility to the children and their children to never allow this type of disaster to ever take place in the world again.”

An image of a badly burned child is shown on every screen, “Do you want your children or grandchildren to be this child? Do you want your children to suffer like this poor child is suffering? We in Russia say NO! We in Russia say we are ready to destroy our nuclear weapons and have started to destroy our largest missiles and their large warheads. The destruction of these weapons is being broadcast live on the internet so the entire world can see Russia stands behind our words. We are calling on every country to vote for a worldwide ban on nuclear weapons. We in Russia feel this is such an important issue, we propose the vote be moved from the Security Council to the General Assembly. We propose this unusual move so that no single country can veto the actions going against the desires and prayers of the world’s 7 billion people.”

The council room is silent for three minutes; this is followed by applause, the delegates stand screaming “Ban-the-Bomb.”

Chapter 16

“What do you mean the
New York Slimes
ran a story that I have kiddie porn on my computer, what kind of crap is this? Wait, Nanny, watch this.” Picking up the telephone on his desk President Reid says, “Security, get me the publisher of the
New York Slimes
newspaper. I want them on the phone right now; I don’t care where they are, or what they’re doing, get them on the phone and buzz me when you have them.”

“Harold, do you think it’s wise to do that before you have your computer checked by our IT expert?”

“Why? I know my computer, it never leaves my office unless I take it with me. No one has access to it.”

“Harold, it’s possible to hack any computer without having a computer.”

“Oh bullshit, I don’t click on those crazy links or web sites.”

“I really think we need to check your computer, where is it?’

“On my desk, come on over, let’s run a search.”

Nanny, moves the laptop, so it’s in front of her, BUZZ BUZZ, “Yes?”

“Mr. President, Mr. Rosen the publisher of the
New York Slimes
is holding.”

“Mr. President, your security said it’s urgent that I contact you, what can we do for you?”

“Where did you get the story about my computer? I want it deleted, and a public printed apology issued right now.”

“Sir, we don’t release our sources, as far as a public apology, are you willing to allow us or a third party to check your computer?”

“Of course not, my computer is full of national security information. No one without the highest access codes can see what’s on my computer. There’s no way I’d allow you, or anyone in the media, near my computer. As the President of the LSA, I demand you withdraw the story.”

“Sir, would you be willing to sign an affidavit stating there’s no pornography on your computer, you’ve never visited any kiddie porn sites?”

“Of course I will.”

Whispering so the speaker phone doesn’t pickup what she’s saying, Nanny softly says into Harold’s ear, “Harold, I think you should call him back, there’s something I want to show you.”

“Mr. Rosen, I’ll call you right back, don’t leave your current location.”

“Nanny, what’s so important?”

“Look! You have thousands of files, all kiddie porn, someone tipped them off; they must have been tipped off from the person who hacked you. If you sign an affidavit, you’ll be committing perjury. They know what’s on your computer; they’ll crucify you if they catch you in such a lie.”

“What should we do about this?”

“I think we need to get in front of it.”

“Harold, we’re not in front of it, we’re already behind the curve.”

“Let me see these images.” Nanny turns the computer to face Harold; she starts opening the files, Harold’s face goes white. “Oh my God, where did this come? If this story spreads, it’s going to hurt us.”

“Let me get our IT people up here to check your computer.”

“Do it right now, this is bad. We wrote very strict laws about kiddie porn; no one is exempt, not even me.”

“I forgot about that; you’re right, our national police force can arrest even you if they catch you with this on your computer.  That means we can’t call IT, by law they have to notify the security group who will take your computer.”

“Just put the files in the trash bin and empty the trash bin; that will clean my computer.”

“Good idea, let me do it now.”

Nanny smiles to herself as she moves hundreds of files to the trash bin and empties the trash. She knows any IT expert can reconstruct the files. She decides she may have to have a chat with the head of the national computer fraud department.

“Harold, you should be OK now; I have a meeting to attend, I would be careful with how hard you push the
Slimes
, if they have hard information about your computer you’ll be in hot water.”

“I won’t accept this slime on me; it had to be Rash behind it. I’m going to get even with him.”

“Harold, be careful. I have to leave now; I’ll see you this evening.”

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In New York City, Samuel Rosen the publisher of the
New York Slimes
is looking at screen shots from Harold Reid’s computer.  He asks his editor, “Rick, where did you get these?”

“Sam, they showed up in my email, the attachment has screen shots, images of Reid sitting in front of his computer, and hundreds of images and file names.”

“Someone hacked his computer, how do we know the person who sent you the email didn’t hack President Reid’s computer?”

“Sam, we don’t know, do we care? This is a hot story; our beloved leader is a fan of kiddie porn? Think about it, this is a killer story. Even if his computer was hacked, why do we have images of him accessing the files?”

“Have we checked the images to see if they’ve been modified?”

“Our experts say the images and files are real.”

“OK, screw Reid, we’ll run the story again tomorrow.  Put a banner on our website. Censor the images and put them on our site. I think we’ve got the old SOB over a barrel this time.”

“Sam, if we burn him, who do we end up with?”

“Nanny, who else. At least she’s easier to deal with, we’ve dealt with her for years.”

“I agree, we’ll make this a running series.”

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Rash and Ted Cruise are meeting in Rash’s office; both are reading the story in the
New York Slimes;
they’re laughing, so hard tears are running down their cheeks. Ted says, “This is so funny, I don’t want to know the how. I think this is the best news I’ve read in months. Do you have another plan of attack?’

“I think it’s best if you and the President don’t know anything in advance.”

“OK, I’m game. Do you think this will get him impeached?”

“A lot depends on Nanny.”

“That’s even better; I can’t wait to see the results.”

The staff outside of Rash’s office hears them laughing, they have an idea why they're laughing about, they smirk thinking of the images on the
Slimes.
Many are thinking Reid deserves what he gets.

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President Brownstone calls Admiral Zander, “Admiral, where is the good Major Grover?”

“Sir, I think he’s due back late today. I don’t think you want to know where he was or why. Do you need some special assistance?”

“I think he should lead the investigation of the technicians in Minot. My gut is telling me the people who worked on the missile weren’t our technicians. We haven’t found any trace of the techs. I’d like the Major to manage the search and investigation of the area. He has the investigative skills I think we need.”

“I’ll cut his orders. If he finds, there was foul play involved?”

“Oh, I’m sure he will. Once he determines who was behind it, we’ll figure out how to respond.”

“Mr. President, I know you understand that the Major is a special tool.”

“I know who and what he is. My gut is telling me our good friend Puten was behind the explosion. It’s just too timely that the warhead explodes and he and Reid rush to the United Nations to ‘Ban The Bomb.' It had to be either Reid’s national political group or Puten’s FSB that setup the entire ’Ban The Bomb’ movement. Everything was just too professional and polished. It was all one, or both, of their master plans. Puten’s trick of pulling the motion from the Security Council where he knows we would veto it and placing it in the General Assembly where he knows America is hated was a very smooth move. He thinks he has us by the balls. We can’t allow the United Nations to try to disarm us. I’m willing to bet my last dollar Puten will hide either complete or subassemblies for new nukes. After the United Nations disposes of the rest of the world’s nuclear weapons, he’ll show he still has some. He’ll blackmail the world to submit to his will. He’s using the United Nations to disarm the world so Russia can take it over. He’s very slick. I didn’t see this one coming.”

“OK, he’ll be there this evening. I’ll give him written orders and authorization to take over the operation. What part of the plan do you think Reid plays?”

“He has people on the ground before anyone else, even before we did; his people took the video the Russians used at the United Nations. Puten is using Reid to get at us, once we’re disarmed Puten will force America to become part of Russia or face destruction. He knows we’ll have to surrender to him or lose hundreds of millions. After the Minot event, he knows our people won’t accept hundreds of warheads going off all across America. Our people will demand surrender versus the same horror replaying in every one of our cities.”

“Mr. President, what are you thinking?”

“Admiral, I want you to execute the doomsday plan.”

“Sir, are you going to put the order in writing?”

“Yes, check your secure email, the order is already there. Admiral, to make it official, implement, Doomsday plan alpha one. Time stamped right now.”

“Mr. President, I accept delivery of the order and acknowledge the order to implement Doomsday plan alpha one.”