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Blow Up the World

Posted on March 20, 2023June 1, 2023 by Simon J. Wood

(800 words) “Be quite sure to follow all instructions,” ‘Missileer’ Thomas Papineau reminded us, “to the letter.” Our white Dodge Durango turned off Interstate 80 just short of Sidney, Nebraska, heading north across the featureless Great Plains.

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