Nightmare Fuel / The Big One

• The author doesn't scrimp on the description of a nuclear attack's aftermath, nor on lesser horrors like what napalm and conventional explosions do to people.
• The description of biowarfare in High Frontier is equally horrifying. It's also Truth in Television, being based on the events following a mycotoxin attack in Laos.
• The fate of the Z-24 in Winter Warriors. The destroyer was making her first cruise in the Atlantic, she dug in the bow-and broke apart due to a bad design. Admiral Lindemann, who had objected multiple times to the precise bit of design that caused the failure, was looking at her when it happened, and was horrified.

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