Hey, I didn’t even know he could make codes.
I asked L. Falk how he’d wormed out of it. Which is when he explained more than I needed to know about codes. At this fortresslike fort in Maryland, he’d mapped statistical vibrations in large samples of data, I think that’s what he said, and broken Russian and Syrian and Iranian and Iraqian codes and winged the messages on up the chain of command. It turned out he was telling the dudes in another fortress called the Pentagon what they didn’t want to hear, namely, that Russian submarines couldn’t submerge and Iraqian long-range missiles could only go short range and their short-range missiles couldn’t get off the ground and Syrian artillery shells had faulty fuses and the Iranian atomic bomb wouldn’t
