Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog Project Gutenberg 2019-06-06 Public domain in the USA. 155 Walton, Bryce 1918 1988 O'Hara, Kenneth Emshwiller, Ed 1925 1990 Emsh Emsh, Ed Alexander, Ed Emshwiller, Edmund A. Willer EMSH War Game Produced from Worlds of If Science Fiction, February 1957 Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "War Game" by Bryce Walton is a science fiction short story written in the mid-20th century. The narrative explores the grim topic of global nuclear annihilation through the lens of political and military leaders who engage in a deadly game of strategy, forcing a confrontation between competing ideologies in an intensely anxiety-ridden world. In the story, the Secretary of State, Chandler Thompson, prepares for the final act of Operation Push Button, a scheme designed to utilize nuclear powers in a decisive and shocking manner. As the leaders of major world powers gather in a secure U.N. bunker, they engage in a ritualistic series of speeches and button presses that lead to worldwide destruction. Thompson confidently discusses the conditioning of citizens to accept this violent fate as inevitable, while his valet Morten grapples with the chilling reality of the impending apocalypse. The tension culminates in a duel between Thompson and a Russian counterpart, where survival for one means the total annihilation of the other. Ultimately, as the narrative unfolds, the outside world reacts to the threat, leading to an unforeseen revolution against the very powers that sought to control it, leaving the bunker occupants oblivious to their impending fate. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 67.7 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. en Science fiction Short stories War stories PS Text Category: Short Stories Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy 42412 2025-07-23T13:49:06.171608 text/html 38701 2019-06-06T06:22:32 text/html 266075 2025-07-23T13:49:07.711623 application/epub+zip 264923 2025-07-23T13:49:06.504637 application/epub+zip 82739 2025-07-23T13:49:06.313630 application/epub+zip 299458 2025-07-23T13:49:08.811598 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 292175 2025-07-23T13:49:07.518618 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 110325 2022-09-27T00:45:50.593405 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 36140 2025-07-23T13:49:06.078628 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 36359 2019-06-06T06:22:32 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 19835 2025-07-23T13:49:08.941582 application/rdf+xml 27275 2025-07-23T13:49:06.386596 image/jpeg 4930 2025-07-23T13:49:06.349606 image/jpeg 397437 2019-06-06T06:22:32 application/octet-stream application/zip 14004 2019-06-06T06:22:32 application/octet-stream application/zip 399972 2025-07-23T13:49:06.183602 application/octet-stream application/zip en.wikipedia en.wikipedia