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+                               WAR GAME
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+                            BY BRYCE WALTON
+
+          _The playing of war games should not be forbidden;
+          but rather viewed as a natural outlet for emotional
+           tensions._--DR. L. M. STOLTZ, STANFORD UNIVERSITY
+
+           [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from
+             Worlds of If Science Fiction, February 1957.
+         Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that
+         the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]
+
+
+The Minister of Peace asked the United States President if he had heard
+from the Secretary of State. "Yes," the President said. "I heard from
+Mr. Thompson only a few minutes ago."
+
+"How's their final conference coming, Mr. President?"
+
+"Inevitably. Operation Push Button within the hour."
+
+The Minister of Peace blinked out the window at Washington, D.C. "So
+they're going to blow up the world?"
+
+"Inevitably."
+
+"Shall we watch it?" asked the Minister of Peace.
+
+The President nodded, spoke to master control through the intercom
+box on his desk, and switched on the TV screen. They had a special
+pipe-line into the United Nations Cellar. They sat back, had martinis,
+and watched the interior of the Cellar come to life on the screen.
+
+Three thousand miles from New Washington, under a natural camouflage of
+tundra and wintry hills, the U.N. Cellar was thought by its occupants
+to be thoroughly resistant to any offensive weapons. It was three miles
+underground, protected by lead, concrete and steel. Its location was
+known only to the U.N. Security Division that was supposed to be
+strictly neutral in international affairs, or so the Cellar occupants
+assumed. The engineers and workmen who had planned and constructed the
+Cellar were supposed to have been brain-washed and therefore had no
+memory of the great project. An occasional caribou drifted over the
+Cellar with the North Wind, and wolves that always follow the caribou.
+
+In his suite, Chandler Thompson, Secretary of State, prepared himself
+for the global diplomacy game's final hand in which it is never so
+important what hand you play, as the way you play it. After years of
+negotiation, full agreement on Operation Push Button had been attained,
+and Thompson took some pride in having played a leading role in the
+ingenious idea.
+
+Morten, his valet, finished shaving Thompson's pale face, helped him
+dress in striped trousers, cut-away, and white gardenia.
+
+"Thank you, Morten," said the Secretary of State.
+
+"You seem calm enough, sir. Frankly, I'm ill at ease."
+
+"You may leave the Cellar if you wish," Thompson said, skimming through
+his notes. "You've served graciously. I appreciate it. But it is your
+privilege to return to your family outside now. I might remind you that
+your chance of survival if you remain here is practically 100 percent."
+
+"It isn't that, sir. It just seems incredible that so many must die."
+He felt of his wallet, the pictures of his family in it.
+
+"It's hardly a matter of principle," Thompson said. "Nor a question
+of ideology. It's simply a question of firmness and realistic
+practicality, and getting the job done once and for all. That has been
+my stand from the beginning and naturally it cannot be changed."
+
+"But billions of people dying--"
+
+"Death before dishonor, Morten."
+
+"Yes, sir." Morten knew that in every suite in the Cellar every
+diplomat was saying practically the same thing. Thompson looked up
+from his neat notes. "People, Morten, have been properly prepared for
+violent death. Indeed there has been a feeling of security in numbers.
+The Ministry of Education working with the War Department has done such
+a splendid job. Now every child has grown up fully prepared to die
+in the holocaust. And every individual still a child regards violent
+death as casually as a game of marbles. The required attitude has been
+thoroughly conditioned in the populace. The idea was to make violence,
+savagery, and sudden death, an every day affair. And we have done it.
+Sad, but a necessary task."
+
+Morten said nothing. Thompson looked at the neon map coruscating on the
+wall. "Our country is not unique in this, Morten. Annihilation will
+come as a shock only to the misinformed anywhere in the world."
+
+Morten sat down. He remembered how his kids used to come home from
+school laughingly playing war games, manipulating toy atomic cannons
+and the like. They received additional marks in school for being
+good and cooperative during atomic bomb drills and preparations for
+thermonuclear disasters. They had been so proud of their dogtags that
+came with boxes of cereal. In the evenings out back they used to have
+bury-the-dead games.
+
+Thompson was saying, "Remember juvenile delinquency? It was necessary.
+Millions had to be conditioned psychologically for Operation Killer. An
+insensitive, fatalistic attitude had to be engendered. For their own
+good."
+
+Morten flicked a speck of lint from Thompson's stooped shoulder.
+
+"Yes, sir," he said. "Maybe it will be humane, in the long run."
+
+"One must face the hard, materialistic facts," Thompson said. "Oh,
+that reminds me." He went to his private switchboard and got a secret
+outside line to the Office of Civilian Defense. "Hello, Donnelson.
+Yes, I'm fine. I haven't talked with you for some time now, and I
+was wondering about that suggestion of mine. Yes, the household pets
+thing. That's right, particularly dogs. They're big morale factors in
+the lives of children and there may be some survivors. Well, then,
+issue another bulletin on that immediately. Things are reaching a head
+here in the Cellar. Yes, dogs should be lashed firmly to heavy pieces
+of furniture, away from windows. Put water where they can reach it.
+Hysteria under the bombing attacks can be avoided by giving sodium
+bromide tablets to the dogs. That's right. Survivors will need pets.
+Morale...."
+
+After Thompson was through talking to Donnelson, Morten said. "You
+know, sir, the end will be a relief to some people. They've been
+blitzed by a non-stop barrage of fear bombs so long, I think they'll be
+glad to get it over with."
+
+"Very perceptive, Morten. That has been one of Psychological Warfare's
+primary aims in preparation." Thompson got another outside line.
+Dawson, Civilian Defense. As he waited for Dawson to come in, he said
+to Morten, "Get the dueling pistols out of the cabinet, please." Morten
+nodded.
+
+"Hello, Dawson. Fine, fine, things coming to a head here. How much
+distribution did you manage on the shrouds? Eighty percent? Excellent.
+I haven't heard from Harry on the details for quite a while. Wanted
+to check personally. As you say, I've never really lost my touch
+with the grass-roots. My feeling from the start was that millions of
+wooden coffins would be out of the question. The olive drab plastic
+sheets seemed to be the only practical recourse from the start. The
+psychological importance of getting bodies out of sight as rapidly as
+possible cannot be overemphasized. Oh, Dawson, one moment ... yes,
+I know about the public parks, playgrounds and vacant tracts in the
+suburbs. But what about New York City? The only way is to send the
+bodies up the Hudson River using piers as morgues. The problem of
+where to put so many bodies, particularly when they will all appear
+for disposal at the same time, is a considerable one. Allowing for
+three-by-six grave-sites, with three feet for aisles, the whole
+problem of adequate disposal acreage is primary." Thompson switched off
+the connection.
+
+Thompson moved his fingers over the .38 caliber dueling pistols in the
+velvet-lined case. His eyes mellowed with nostalgia. "Gift from the old
+Secretary of War. My boy, Don, learned to shoot with this one when he
+was only six years old. If he had lived to be an adult, he would have
+been a tough fighter. But he was killed by a rival delinquent gang when
+he was twelve. He only got there a little sooner. He had just finished
+reading Niebuhr, so he knew the tragic irony of history."
+
+Thompson balanced one of the pistols in his hand. He looked at his
+watch. "It's time," he said religiously.
+
+As Thompson entered the Hall of Ministers, the representatives of five
+balance of power nations arose at once in deference to the sixth.
+Morten sat unobtrusively in a far corner, holding the case of dueling
+pistols on his knees.
+
+Thompson sat down. The minutes of the last conference were read by
+a mechanical secretary. A summation of their final agreement on
+Operation Push Button was briefly reviewed by the automatic translating
+secretary. No changes were suggested.
+
+The surface of the huge conference table was somewhat like a gigantic
+topographical map of the world. It covered perhaps a thousand square
+feet and had been constructed by brain-washed artisans and engineers
+and scientists in perfect electronic detail. It was so realistic
+that it radiated a sort of sentience, seeming almost to breathe in
+astonishing precision with the respiration of important strategically
+located cities, ports, communication and manufacturing centers. Before
+each Minister was a console containing several buttons.
+
+Each Minister arose, made a speech concerning the sovereign rights of
+the particular nation or bloc of nations he represented. In each case,
+the speeches seemed the same to Morten. He knew that if merely the name
+of the country or bloc in each speech was changed, the rest would be
+the same, and sound something like:
+
+"Gentlemen, a free such-and-such people can no longer tolerate a
+militant rearming so-and-so. Every other possibility has been discussed
+and rejected. I must say now that at this moment a state of war must of
+necessity exist between such-and-such and so-and-so."
+
+Morten had been hearing variations of it for years. He knew it all
+by heart. As each Minister made this implacable statement, he sat
+down, and without further ceremony, pushed a button or buttons on his
+private console. On the topographical map, as a button was pushed, some
+important section of the map, an area, a city, a port, some significant
+transportation, communication, or manufacturing industrial center,
+would shoot out realistic sparks, smoke, and then crumble into lifeless
+debris.
+
+Morten tried to control the flinching and twitching of his muscles. An
+intricate network of electronic relays connected with thermonuclear
+bombs went out all over the world, and were hooked in to the map on
+the conference table. Millions of people were just blown up somewhere,
+Morten thought.
+
+Another Minister finished his speech, sat down, pressed buttons. More
+smoke and flashes shot up. Millions of others out there somewhere have
+just been annihilated, Morten thought. It doesn't seem possible, he
+thought then. It's not possible. It's some kind of final madness. But
+it's happening.
+
+It had been decided that this was the simple direct way, avoiding long,
+time-wasting programs of mobilization and warfare. If the conclusion
+was foregone, had been the question, then why not go directly to it by
+the shortest and most efficient route? And the answer was as inevitable
+as the question.
+
+More Ministers stood up, made their final declarations, and pushed
+buttons. Little puffballs and clouds of smoke drifted over the
+conference table, obscuring distinctive facial outlines and turning the
+ministers into shadow shapes as Morten watched.
+
+Only two of the Ministers had not yet pressed their buttons. Only
+two sectors of the world remain alive, Morten thought. He coughed
+as acrid smoke swirled about the room. He felt a kind of blessed
+numbed paralysis. He could almost feel the whole world turning into a
+radioactive hell all around him, mushrooms of gigantic size sprouting
+fast and furiously in the last big aftermath of rain. Yet he could
+scarcely imagine how it really was now, outside the Cellar. He thought
+vaguely about the dogs, wondering how many of them had avoided hysteria
+by having been tied to heavy pieces of furniture and given sodium
+bromide tablets. The kids who survived would need pets.
+
+Morten sat there, trying to see through the thickening smoke. He tried
+to feel grateful for having been in the Cellar. But in a few more
+seconds America might also be destroyed. What then? And what if only
+America remained--would that be any better?
+
+He had resisted such speculation, but how could he resist it any
+longer? The Ministers had their wives, families, lovers in the Cellar,
+and supplies enough to last indefinitely. But Morten's family was
+outside. In a few seconds they might be dead. After that nothing.
+Nothing at all.
+
+He heard Thompson say in a calm voice. "Morten, the pistols."
+
+He also heard the other Minister say in Russian that he wanted his
+pistol. Morten had to respect the secret agreement that Thompson and
+the Russian Minister had made yesterday. After the other Ministers
+pushed their buttons, Thompson and the Russian would fight a duel then
+the survivor of the duel would push his button.
+
+"Someone should win," Thompson and the Russian had agreed. "This way,
+one will be the absolute victor."
+
+If the other Ministers knew what this secret agreement was they either
+did not care, or did not care enough now. They got up from the
+conference table and drifted out of the big spheroid room to their
+families, wives--wherever they wanted to go.
+
+Now only Thompson and the Russian remained in the room. They walked
+ten paces away from one another in the classic tradition of honorable
+dueling, turned, and fired. They fell almost at the same time. Morten
+rushed over to Thompson who was already dead, having died instantly
+with a bullet in his heart. Morten saw that the Russian had a bullet
+hole just above his left eye.
+
+Thompson, foreseeing this possible situation, had gotten a promise from
+Morten that he would press the button that would annihilate Russia, in
+case Thompson was dead or incapacitated. That would leave the United
+States the sole victor in the last great global struggle to establish
+once and for all, world wide, the true faith.
+
+Morten fought a brief struggle with his conscience, then ran out of
+the room, leaving the console untouched. The United States and Russia
+still survived. Morten's family was still safe. He ran toward the bank
+of elevators to get out of the Cellar. He hadn't been out of the Cellar
+for a long, long time.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The President of the United States switched off the TV, and poured
+another martini. "You want another?" he asked the Minister of Peace.
+"No, sir, Mr. President."
+
+For a while they said nothing as they looked out the window at the
+peaceful sunshine, and watched birds settle in the trees.
+
+"They ran their own course," the Minister of Peace said. "Just the
+same, it was an unpleasant thing to see."
+
+"Inevitable," said the President. "There wasn't any other possible way
+to handle them."
+
+Psychiatry would never have altered their rigid mold, he knew. It was a
+strangely funny thing, that spontaneous rebellion all over the world.
+The people putting a stop to the whole damn vicious historical show.
+But they had done it. The lie had been given to all the historical
+pessimists like Spencer and Toynbee and Marx and all the others
+who had said the same things, whether they really had admitted it
+or not. The people, acting out of intuitive realization that they
+faced annihilation, had reacted _en masse_ and taken things over for
+themselves. Now you couldn't find even a water pistol anywhere in the
+world.
+
+The U.N. Cellar had been walled off, turned into a kind of sanitarium.
+Its occupants had never known the truth about the outside. Thompson and
+that absurd Russian were dead. But what about the others in the Cellar,
+living there still and believing they were the only few survivors left
+in the world?
+
+Poor bastards, the President thought. And then he thought of that
+statement by Sartre. The one about hell being a restaurant where you
+served yourself.
+
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-                               WAR GAME
-
-                            BY BRYCE WALTON
-
-          _The playing of war games should not be forbidden;
-          but rather viewed as a natural outlet for emotional
-           tensions._--DR. L. M. STOLTZ, STANFORD UNIVERSITY
-
-           [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from
-             Worlds of If Science Fiction, February 1957.
-         Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that
-         the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]
-
-
-The Minister of Peace asked the United States President if he had heard
-from the Secretary of State. "Yes," the President said. "I heard from
-Mr. Thompson only a few minutes ago."
-
-"How's their final conference coming, Mr. President?"
-
-"Inevitably. Operation Push Button within the hour."
-
-The Minister of Peace blinked out the window at Washington, D.C. "So
-they're going to blow up the world?"
-
-"Inevitably."
-
-"Shall we watch it?" asked the Minister of Peace.
-
-The President nodded, spoke to master control through the intercom
-box on his desk, and switched on the TV screen. They had a special
-pipe-line into the United Nations Cellar. They sat back, had martinis,
-and watched the interior of the Cellar come to life on the screen.
-
-Three thousand miles from New Washington, under a natural camouflage of
-tundra and wintry hills, the U.N. Cellar was thought by its occupants
-to be thoroughly resistant to any offensive weapons. It was three miles
-underground, protected by lead, concrete and steel. Its location was
-known only to the U.N. Security Division that was supposed to be
-strictly neutral in international affairs, or so the Cellar occupants
-assumed. The engineers and workmen who had planned and constructed the
-Cellar were supposed to have been brain-washed and therefore had no
-memory of the great project. An occasional caribou drifted over the
-Cellar with the North Wind, and wolves that always follow the caribou.
-
-In his suite, Chandler Thompson, Secretary of State, prepared himself
-for the global diplomacy game's final hand in which it is never so
-important what hand you play, as the way you play it. After years of
-negotiation, full agreement on Operation Push Button had been attained,
-and Thompson took some pride in having played a leading role in the
-ingenious idea.
-
-Morten, his valet, finished shaving Thompson's pale face, helped him
-dress in striped trousers, cut-away, and white gardenia.
-
-"Thank you, Morten," said the Secretary of State.
-
-"You seem calm enough, sir. Frankly, I'm ill at ease."
-
-"You may leave the Cellar if you wish," Thompson said, skimming through
-his notes. "You've served graciously. I appreciate it. But it is your
-privilege to return to your family outside now. I might remind you that
-your chance of survival if you remain here is practically 100 percent."
-
-"It isn't that, sir. It just seems incredible that so many must die."
-He felt of his wallet, the pictures of his family in it.
-
-"It's hardly a matter of principle," Thompson said. "Nor a question
-of ideology. It's simply a question of firmness and realistic
-practicality, and getting the job done once and for all. That has been
-my stand from the beginning and naturally it cannot be changed."
-
-"But billions of people dying--"
-
-"Death before dishonor, Morten."
-
-"Yes, sir." Morten knew that in every suite in the Cellar every
-diplomat was saying practically the same thing. Thompson looked up
-from his neat notes. "People, Morten, have been properly prepared for
-violent death. Indeed there has been a feeling of security in numbers.
-The Ministry of Education working with the War Department has done such
-a splendid job. Now every child has grown up fully prepared to die
-in the holocaust. And every individual still a child regards violent
-death as casually as a game of marbles. The required attitude has been
-thoroughly conditioned in the populace. The idea was to make violence,
-savagery, and sudden death, an every day affair. And we have done it.
-Sad, but a necessary task."
-
-Morten said nothing. Thompson looked at the neon map coruscating on the
-wall. "Our country is not unique in this, Morten. Annihilation will
-come as a shock only to the misinformed anywhere in the world."
-
-Morten sat down. He remembered how his kids used to come home from
-school laughingly playing war games, manipulating toy atomic cannons
-and the like. They received additional marks in school for being
-good and cooperative during atomic bomb drills and preparations for
-thermonuclear disasters. They had been so proud of their dogtags that
-came with boxes of cereal. In the evenings out back they used to have
-bury-the-dead games.
-
-Thompson was saying, "Remember juvenile delinquency? It was necessary.
-Millions had to be conditioned psychologically for Operation Killer. An
-insensitive, fatalistic attitude had to be engendered. For their own
-good."
-
-Morten flicked a speck of lint from Thompson's stooped shoulder.
-
-"Yes, sir," he said. "Maybe it will be humane, in the long run."
-
-"One must face the hard, materialistic facts," Thompson said. "Oh,
-that reminds me." He went to his private switchboard and got a secret
-outside line to the Office of Civilian Defense. "Hello, Donnelson.
-Yes, I'm fine. I haven't talked with you for some time now, and I
-was wondering about that suggestion of mine. Yes, the household pets
-thing. That's right, particularly dogs. They're big morale factors in
-the lives of children and there may be some survivors. Well, then,
-issue another bulletin on that immediately. Things are reaching a head
-here in the Cellar. Yes, dogs should be lashed firmly to heavy pieces
-of furniture, away from windows. Put water where they can reach it.
-Hysteria under the bombing attacks can be avoided by giving sodium
-bromide tablets to the dogs. That's right. Survivors will need pets.
-Morale...."
-
-After Thompson was through talking to Donnelson, Morten said. "You
-know, sir, the end will be a relief to some people. They've been
-blitzed by a non-stop barrage of fear bombs so long, I think they'll be
-glad to get it over with."
-
-"Very perceptive, Morten. That has been one of Psychological Warfare's
-primary aims in preparation." Thompson got another outside line.
-Dawson, Civilian Defense. As he waited for Dawson to come in, he said
-to Morten, "Get the dueling pistols out of the cabinet, please." Morten
-nodded.
-
-"Hello, Dawson. Fine, fine, things coming to a head here. How much
-distribution did you manage on the shrouds? Eighty percent? Excellent.
-I haven't heard from Harry on the details for quite a while. Wanted
-to check personally. As you say, I've never really lost my touch
-with the grass-roots. My feeling from the start was that millions of
-wooden coffins would be out of the question. The olive drab plastic
-sheets seemed to be the only practical recourse from the start. The
-psychological importance of getting bodies out of sight as rapidly as
-possible cannot be overemphasized. Oh, Dawson, one moment ... yes,
-I know about the public parks, playgrounds and vacant tracts in the
-suburbs. But what about New York City? The only way is to send the
-bodies up the Hudson River using piers as morgues. The problem of
-where to put so many bodies, particularly when they will all appear
-for disposal at the same time, is a considerable one. Allowing for
-three-by-six grave-sites, with three feet for aisles, the whole
-problem of adequate disposal acreage is primary." Thompson switched off
-the connection.
-
-Thompson moved his fingers over the .38 caliber dueling pistols in the
-velvet-lined case. His eyes mellowed with nostalgia. "Gift from the old
-Secretary of War. My boy, Don, learned to shoot with this one when he
-was only six years old. If he had lived to be an adult, he would have
-been a tough fighter. But he was killed by a rival delinquent gang when
-he was twelve. He only got there a little sooner. He had just finished
-reading Niebuhr, so he knew the tragic irony of history."
-
-Thompson balanced one of the pistols in his hand. He looked at his
-watch. "It's time," he said religiously.
-
-As Thompson entered the Hall of Ministers, the representatives of five
-balance of power nations arose at once in deference to the sixth.
-Morten sat unobtrusively in a far corner, holding the case of dueling
-pistols on his knees.
-
-Thompson sat down. The minutes of the last conference were read by
-a mechanical secretary. A summation of their final agreement on
-Operation Push Button was briefly reviewed by the automatic translating
-secretary. No changes were suggested.
-
-The surface of the huge conference table was somewhat like a gigantic
-topographical map of the world. It covered perhaps a thousand square
-feet and had been constructed by brain-washed artisans and engineers
-and scientists in perfect electronic detail. It was so realistic
-that it radiated a sort of sentience, seeming almost to breathe in
-astonishing precision with the respiration of important strategically
-located cities, ports, communication and manufacturing centers. Before
-each Minister was a console containing several buttons.
-
-Each Minister arose, made a speech concerning the sovereign rights of
-the particular nation or bloc of nations he represented. In each case,
-the speeches seemed the same to Morten. He knew that if merely the name
-of the country or bloc in each speech was changed, the rest would be
-the same, and sound something like:
-
-"Gentlemen, a free such-and-such people can no longer tolerate a
-militant rearming so-and-so. Every other possibility has been discussed
-and rejected. I must say now that at this moment a state of war must of
-necessity exist between such-and-such and so-and-so."
-
-Morten had been hearing variations of it for years. He knew it all
-by heart. As each Minister made this implacable statement, he sat
-down, and without further ceremony, pushed a button or buttons on his
-private console. On the topographical map, as a button was pushed, some
-important section of the map, an area, a city, a port, some significant
-transportation, communication, or manufacturing industrial center,
-would shoot out realistic sparks, smoke, and then crumble into lifeless
-debris.
-
-Morten tried to control the flinching and twitching of his muscles. An
-intricate network of electronic relays connected with thermonuclear
-bombs went out all over the world, and were hooked in to the map on
-the conference table. Millions of people were just blown up somewhere,
-Morten thought.
-
-Another Minister finished his speech, sat down, pressed buttons. More
-smoke and flashes shot up. Millions of others out there somewhere have
-just been annihilated, Morten thought. It doesn't seem possible, he
-thought then. It's not possible. It's some kind of final madness. But
-it's happening.
-
-It had been decided that this was the simple direct way, avoiding long,
-time-wasting programs of mobilization and warfare. If the conclusion
-was foregone, had been the question, then why not go directly to it by
-the shortest and most efficient route? And the answer was as inevitable
-as the question.
-
-More Ministers stood up, made their final declarations, and pushed
-buttons. Little puffballs and clouds of smoke drifted over the
-conference table, obscuring distinctive facial outlines and turning the
-ministers into shadow shapes as Morten watched.
-
-Only two of the Ministers had not yet pressed their buttons. Only
-two sectors of the world remain alive, Morten thought. He coughed
-as acrid smoke swirled about the room. He felt a kind of blessed
-numbed paralysis. He could almost feel the whole world turning into a
-radioactive hell all around him, mushrooms of gigantic size sprouting
-fast and furiously in the last big aftermath of rain. Yet he could
-scarcely imagine how it really was now, outside the Cellar. He thought
-vaguely about the dogs, wondering how many of them had avoided hysteria
-by having been tied to heavy pieces of furniture and given sodium
-bromide tablets. The kids who survived would need pets.
-
-Morten sat there, trying to see through the thickening smoke. He tried
-to feel grateful for having been in the Cellar. But in a few more
-seconds America might also be destroyed. What then? And what if only
-America remained--would that be any better?
-
-He had resisted such speculation, but how could he resist it any
-longer? The Ministers had their wives, families, lovers in the Cellar,
-and supplies enough to last indefinitely. But Morten's family was
-outside. In a few seconds they might be dead. After that nothing.
-Nothing at all.
-
-He heard Thompson say in a calm voice. "Morten, the pistols."
-
-He also heard the other Minister say in Russian that he wanted his
-pistol. Morten had to respect the secret agreement that Thompson and
-the Russian Minister had made yesterday. After the other Ministers
-pushed their buttons, Thompson and the Russian would fight a duel then
-the survivor of the duel would push his button.
-
-"Someone should win," Thompson and the Russian had agreed. "This way,
-one will be the absolute victor."
-
-If the other Ministers knew what this secret agreement was they either
-did not care, or did not care enough now. They got up from the
-conference table and drifted out of the big spheroid room to their
-families, wives--wherever they wanted to go.
-
-Now only Thompson and the Russian remained in the room. They walked
-ten paces away from one another in the classic tradition of honorable
-dueling, turned, and fired. They fell almost at the same time. Morten
-rushed over to Thompson who was already dead, having died instantly
-with a bullet in his heart. Morten saw that the Russian had a bullet
-hole just above his left eye.
-
-Thompson, foreseeing this possible situation, had gotten a promise from
-Morten that he would press the button that would annihilate Russia, in
-case Thompson was dead or incapacitated. That would leave the United
-States the sole victor in the last great global struggle to establish
-once and for all, world wide, the true faith.
-
-Morten fought a brief struggle with his conscience, then ran out of
-the room, leaving the console untouched. The United States and Russia
-still survived. Morten's family was still safe. He ran toward the bank
-of elevators to get out of the Cellar. He hadn't been out of the Cellar
-for a long, long time.
-
-       *       *       *       *       *
-
-The President of the United States switched off the TV, and poured
-another martini. "You want another?" he asked the Minister of Peace.
-"No, sir, Mr. President."
-
-For a while they said nothing as they looked out the window at the
-peaceful sunshine, and watched birds settle in the trees.
-
-"They ran their own course," the Minister of Peace said. "Just the
-same, it was an unpleasant thing to see."
-
-"Inevitable," said the President. "There wasn't any other possible way
-to handle them."
-
-Psychiatry would never have altered their rigid mold, he knew. It was a
-strangely funny thing, that spontaneous rebellion all over the world.
-The people putting a stop to the whole damn vicious historical show.
-But they had done it. The lie had been given to all the historical
-pessimists like Spencer and Toynbee and Marx and all the others
-who had said the same things, whether they really had admitted it
-or not. The people, acting out of intuitive realization that they
-faced annihilation, had reacted _en masse_ and taken things over for
-themselves. Now you couldn't find even a water pistol anywhere in the
-world.
-
-The U.N. Cellar had been walled off, turned into a kind of sanitarium.
-Its occupants had never known the truth about the outside. Thompson and
-that absurd Russian were dead. But what about the others in the Cellar,
-living there still and believing they were the only few survivors left
-in the world?
-
-Poor bastards, the President thought. And then he thought of that
-statement by Sartre. The one about hell being a restaurant where you
-served yourself.
-
-
-
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