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    Chapter 10 Presidential Briefing, The War Room

    President Douglass was trying to follow an Air Force Major explain computer hardware and microcode viruses when, exasperated, he had to interrupt, Do I understand correctly that the Japanese have encoded or hardwired viruses in damn near everything we have bought from them in the last umpteen years? Is that what yoursaying?

    The Air Force Major was too startled by President Douglasss tone and too intimidated by his demeanor to do more than shuffle his feet and mutter, hmm and,

    well sir, until General DeBliss took over.

    Mr. President, you are essentially correct but I dont know if virus is the right term for what we have. As you know, a virus is normally associated with computer software and thats not the case this time. What the sons-a-bitches have app

    arently done is insert additional logic and hardware in the lowest level backupcircuits. In some cases they even invented additional backups. The extra hardware functions as a receiver for satellite signals or commands and the virus logicshuts the damn thing down or worse, causes a self-destruct. None of our testingshowed anything amiss because one: testing of last level backup is

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    minimal and two: the slimy fuckers were ingenious with their designs. We cant get their virus-logic out without wrecking the goddamned circuit board and if wedisable the receiver portion we activate some hidden kill switch which renders the rest of the board inoperable. And no, we cant even find the kill switch without an electron microscope and about three fucking weeks for each type of circuit board. Sorry, Mr. President but we are well and truly up the shit creek.

    Horton Timmons, National Security Adviser, jumped in, The real scope of the disaster is that about eighty-plus percent of our weapon systems have Japanese components. Most of those components are electronic. In our most advanced weapon systems, the number of infected components goes up to a probable ninety-two or three percent. Mr. President, even our nuke warheads are probably infected. Even ifthey arent, the delivery systems almost certainly are.

    Well people, President Douglass said. Just what the Holy Hell are we supposed

    to do, fight Russia, Japan, and the entire Mid-East with handguns and hunting rifles? By the way, have any of you snapped to the fact that so far the only things the Japs are knocking out of the air are missiles? Why not the planes? Why not all of our satellites?

    No one said anything until Admiral Bramble offered, Perhaps they want to save them to use later against someone they havent infected. Possibly the Chinese oreven the Russians.

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    General DeBliss added, You may have something there Thomas. The Japs really dont have much of a military themselves and without us to defend them they would be easy pickings for either the Chinks or the Russiansunless they walk in and grab our stuff.

    Jimmy McCullum, Secretary of the Navy, spoke up, What about hand delivery of nukes by teams of Navy Seals? Assuming of course the nukes will work.

    DeBliss was steamed. Where Jimmy? Down-fucking-town Tokyo? A bunch of non-Japanese guys in black wetsuits lugging five hundred pound boxes wouldnt make it off

    the beaches!

    Hold it everybody! President Douglass thundered. All I am hearing is that weare beaten and nothing will work against the enemy. No damn way, people. No damn

    way. Now if missiles wont work and aircraft and nukes probably wont work if w

    e try to use them, whats left? Invasion troops? Ha, that would take about a year to organize while the Japanese watched every move via satellite and laughed their asses off. Now, tell me something that will work."

    While others were pondering the Presidents words, a message alert flashed on everyones notebook computer. The message read, Japanese geosynchronous satellites

    now in orbit above following locations: Seattle, Washington; Charleston, SouthCarolina and a position approximately mid-way

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    between Laramie, Wyoming and Fargo, North Dakota. End Message.

    President Douglass hissed, Im still waiting gentlemen, but apparently the Japanese are not. They now have continuous look-sees at major sub sites and many ofour missile launch silos

    Admiral Bramble ventured, Perhaps there is a way the nukes will work and a delivery system that can get them to Japan is available. Fourteen hard pairs of eyes focused on Thomas T. Bramble, newly appointed Chief of Naval Operations.

    What the hell are you talking about Bramble? DeBliss challenged.

    Douglass held up one hand and said, General, let the Admiral finish. Explain Thomas.

    Thomas stood up and started to pace as he spoke, Gentlemen, the nukes will workif the satellite signals cant get to them. Right now we have scores of nukes in underground bunkers, shielded bunkers as you well know and hundreds of feet underground. What I think will work is thisWe bring up several of them with heavy

    shielding. The shielding is probably not necessary because the nukes wont be powered up but why take the chance. Then we put the nukes aboard our best, deepest diving subs. After the subs are at sea and still submerged we attach submersibles that can go ultra deep. We program the nukes to go off

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    however and whenever and rig them in the submersibles. The thing is, satellite signals cant penetrate down to the subs or the submersibles. If we can get themin the right places, either under or nearly under some of the Japanese islands,we might just tear them a new asshole. If we are lucky we could start all kindsof earthquake and volcanic activity, maybe even sink parts of some islands. We have a big Pacific event predicted for anytime now by the NEI. A geophysicist I know and respect recently told me he thinks NEI is wrong about Hawaii as the epicenter. He thinks, and a Dr. Goodman who is a Pacific Rim, Far-East vulcanologist

    concurs, the more probable epicenter is near the trench along side the easterncoast of Japan. The Japan Trench. It stretches south from the Kuril Trench in the north, near the Kuril Islands and Hokkaido Island, along all of Japan and continues to the Mariana Trench. In the northern portion it

    s deepest point is 34,587 feet but there is not much there worth nuking. Further south, very near Honshu

    Island and Tokyo, the depths reach 27,000 + feet. That

    s over five miles deep Mr. President. More than enough for our purposes because the Japan Trench marks t

    he convergence or collision of the Pacific Plate and the western plates. As a bonus, there are over 127 volcanoes in the area, 22 of which are active. I say, Mr. President, we help make it Japan.

    What will you need to make your scenario happen? queried the President.

    Now wait a minute. Excuse me Mr. President. DeBliss blustered. I meant to saylets slow down and talk about this for a minute. What Bramble is

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    suggesting is pretty far-fetched and..

    Douglass blew up, Ill tell you whats far-fetched. Sitting here moaning and groaning about this wont work and thats impossible and considering moving Jews to tent camps and kowtowing to the arrogant pricks that think they can bend us over a barrel and butt-fuck us. Now people, can any of you tell me that the Admirals idea wont work? Silence. Do any of you have a better idea? Again silence. Admiral, you have the floor. What do you need?

    Thomas, still standing, Sir, Secretary McCullum can push all the buttons to organize the subs and submersibles. I know General DeBliss can reach out to the right people to get the nukes up and delivered. What we need to know, is where best

    to place the nukes. Ill want to talk with Professors Palmer and Goodman to seewhats possible. Mr. President, it is important that you understand that most o

    f the submersibles dont have much lateral range, less than 50 miles, so its do

    ubtful many of the subs will survive. Most of all we also need time.Horton Timmons cleared his throat and added, We may have to act like we are willing to do something on the Jewish situation. Of course the Israelis need to know thats bullshit but we must speak to only the right people in Tel Aviv. No telling who the Arabs have planted there. We also have to institute Marshall law in

    the blacked out areas. I talking Federal troops in the streets because the local and State forces cant handle it.

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    General DeBliss argued, Mr. President, if we stop further military actions thebastards will smell a rat. I suggest we keep launching at the satellites, try moving killer satellites next to the geosyncs and fly some bomber sorties againstLebanon and Syria. Basically keep em busy while Bramble sticks some nukes under

    their skirt.

    President Douglass, smiling for the first time in many days, said People, I heard this somewhere and I think it apropos, MAKE IT SO!

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