Review of “Pushbutton War” (1960)

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Joseph P. Martino (writer).

Read in 2022.

A fighter pilot raises horses until he has to intercept a nuclear missile.

The story does does not illustrate the concept of a pushbutton war. Martino is clearly aware of some of the reasons not to build a manned interceptor for fragmenting ICBMs, but he ignores them.

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