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Seeing Red
The threat of mutual suicide is a very uninspiring concept, no matter how logical it may seem.
—Herman Kahn, On Thermonuclear War
Khalid poured over the results of his latest tests and the accompanying extrapolations of the resulting pandemic. The door behind him opened, and Sabaah came in from a short venture into the out of doors to incinerate the bodies of the mice used in the most recent experiments.
Sabaah wore blue jeans as usual since the mice had all been confined in a Class III biosafety cabinet. He’d removed the mice by wrangling a pair of bots to take them up and out of the tunnels. Now he stood on tip-toes to peer over Khalid’s shoulder at the death projections. “Am I missing something, or is this one only about as lethal as the last one?”
Khalid shrugged. “I
