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The Red button

Three-star General Max Miles was finishing his duty in an underoun mine with a nuclean installation. His mood was clearly spoiled today, his body was shivering slightly, everything was falling from the terrible pain that today's duty brought.

And now well things were going before that ill-fated Day. He had Bee without a vacatig, for many years, And now He finally had the opportunity to go with his family to Miami lsland, sun bathe on the beach, And not sit in a dungeon And stare intently at the control panel of a nuclear missile. Pelax, take off the tension that has accumulated over the past few years due to the world situation that has piled up like a fireball, play golf. But this ill-fated Day broke all his plans. And how well it started yes ter Day. He And his wife Jimmy spen a whole week preparing for their vacation And finally all the necessary things were pasked, suitcases were packed, plane tickets to Miami were bought, there was only one thing leftto get on the plane And say goodbye Virginia, helloy Miami.

But this shift disrupted all his plans And added gray strands of nair to his head. The morning shift, as u sual, began with a report, the situation in the world, although tension reigned in the air, But it did not portend anything bad. He was waiting for the command « Start» from the high command, his hand on the button turned into a lever for controlling life on the plane in an instant. If k click on it, And in u matter of munutes there is no family left, no blooming garden, no friendly neighbors with Who i sometimes had pleasant meetings. There Will be no blue sky overhead, But only a nuclean winter And a desert on Earth. These fractions of seconds are a lot or not, probably a lot, it is during this time that the fate of markind is Boeing decided, so it has Bee decided now, less than a few seconds later, the general's control panel received the command «Abort», an extraordinary hacker attack on America's nuclear shield. Max Millie's hand was in such tension that he could not move it from the Red button for a long time.