By Fletcher Knebel
The time is the chilly battle. The President and Congress have entered right into a nuclear disarmament treaty with the Soviet Union. The charismatic chairman of the Joint Chiefs of employees believes that the Soviets won't abide by means of the treaty and he starts to plot a coup, atmosphere the degree for a suspenseful story.
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Direct command lines linked the war room to more than a hundred major combat posts, including the Strategic Air Command near Omaha, the North American Air Defense Command at Colorado Springs, and NATO Headquarters in Paris. A "gold" phone and a red phone, for instantaneous transmission of battle commands in case of war, stood on a separate table. Casey chatted with the duty officer. The charts were almost bare of special military activity, save for a rectangle marked in red crayon in the South Pacific.
Casey passed up a proffered highball in favor of a second bottle of Stew's excellent pale India ale. He had taken a single swallow when Prentice came up, took his elbow and steered him out of a group. "Colonel, I meant what I said earlier. " Casey answered in his best light party tone. "I'm a military officer. " "Let's not kid ourselves. Colonel," Prentice said snappishly. "This country's in trouble, bad trouble. " Casey laughed, but he felt increasingly uneasy in this conversation. "You'd never make a professor at Annapolis, Senator," he said.
Certainly the timing would show whether the field commanders had performed as ordered. m. Saturday in Washington, most United States commands would be well into their usual peacetime weekend cycle. m. m. Friday. Now Scott was handing five of his top men in the field a little extra tranquilizer with his message on the Preakness, even setting the "post time" to coincide with the hour he had picked to blow the whistle for the alert. Pretty cute, Casey thought. Some of those people might relax an extra notch, surmising that Scott was sure to be up at Pimlico for the race.