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1, 1, 1, Tonight the time is the time is the late 1960s the place Washington DC the story Honeymoon in Hell. My name is Carmody. I'm a grade one cybernetics man at Western Alliance headquarters in the Pentagon.

Used to be a rocket pilot, but they retired me at 27 after I made the third successful flight to the moon.

As a grade one cybernetics operator, I get to work with Junior.

Let me tell you about Junior.

He was built in 1962 and he's the world's finest electronic brain with a possible exception of Ivan, the Eastern Alliance brain which was built on stolen plans and modeled after Junior.

There are only four men in the country permitted in the same room

with Junior because the data we feed him is so secret. One of those four is the

president of the Western Alliance. The other three are myself, Charlie Maser, and the Chiefs.

Right. Oh yes, Chief. Have you got Junior running a problem?

Well, I just said in the hourly data for probability of H-bomb war with the Eastern alliance.

And he's ready, hold it.

According to the data just received, the probability of a hot war between the Western and the Eastern Alliance is 99.930 in favor of such a war breaking out within the next month.

Oh, it doesn't sound good, she.

Well, I'll scramble the dead to send it to the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

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