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Chapter Thirty-Five
Washington, D.C./December 1
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The first nuclear age is drawing to a close, along with the cold war that it grew up with, but the arsenals remain at absurdly high levels, 8,000 or more warheads for each superpower, deployed variously on land-based ballistic missiles, sea-based ones, cruise missiles and manned bombers. More than enough, even after START, for the United States and Russia to destroy the other ten times over.
LONDON REVIEW OF FOREIGN POLICY
If Jake were here, he'd be angry, lecturing, hectoring his listeners, Anna thought. Across the table were two of the politicians he had most despised in the world, one of whom was certainly the most powerful. No one yet had gotten around to telling her why she had received this signal honor; they were all too busy to pay her any attention. The pain pill she had taken was working all too well at the moment. Perhaps it was the combination of stress and far too little sleep, which had, in concert with the pill, made everything seem so disconnected

 
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