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The White House.
The president paced in front of his mahogany desk, the same desk used by John F. Kennedy as he faced an escalation of Russian troops into Cuba in 1961. He rubbed his neck. “The situation between Russia and North Korea is getting out of control. We underestimated Russia’s response and it’s going to screw our entire operation. Dammit, how could I have been so stupid?”
The national security advisor decided not to respond.
“Don’t give me that snide look,” the president said. “I know. You advised against this little operation.”
“Little operation? Sir, you may be the president of the United States, but you invoked the Fifteenth Protocol. You authorized the stealing of a nuclear device from another nation so that you could detonate it inside North Korean terri
