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virus? I guess it doesn’t really matter. Maybe we should just try and figure out the nuclear winter survival protocol and follow that.
    I type “Nuclear winter” into the query box and get more hits than I had imagined. Having a query and an idea is refreshing. The volume of text to parse is a bit overwhelming. The back of my mind can start working on solving the puzzle, too; how would mankind survive a nuclear winter?
    The first several links are interesting but not immediately helpful. Calculating the spread rate of a nuclear winter, determining the length of a nuclear winter, identifying the end of the nuclear winter. There are also some chilling and not at all interesting links. Things like a nuclear winter based on a first strike and nuclear winter based on a counter strike. I suppose a survival protocol would need to vary based on the timing of a war, but it is revolting to think this would be considered so academically.
    The link at the top of the second page of results immediately grabs my attention. The title is “Managed Nuclear Winter.” They have envisioned a reason for intentionally plunging the planet into a nuclear winter and wiping out all life forms. This must be a humanitarian entry. There will be a brief apology for destroying the planet and a long document on the history of mankind.
    If I were on my stool in the lab, I would have fallen off. Last sentence, first paragraph. “This is to be considered a low success rate last option for the response protocol in the event that the sore loser virus is deployed.” Sore loser virus is linked. This feels like what I have been looking for but I don’t want to click on it. I know that if I am right, I will be led back to the page I am on. The page I am on gives me a low success rate last chance. Because of the virus, but not in the way that Jane and Cassandra see it.
    Click.
    The sore loser virus is a biological weapon. It was designed in a lab and not only causes the killer cold but adapts to survivors. This much we learned from Jane. It is a relentless microscopic, parasitic organism that can only be killed through intense radiation. The theoretical use was for combating an invasion of human-eating aliens, though from linked phrases, I can see that there were discussions about using it as a component of biological warfare. Regardless, if America was not going to survive, the virus would be used to ensure that no one survived. 
    There are two links near the end of the document. One is titled “Response to Localized Release”; the other is “Response to Global Release.” We have seen the global impact of this virus. It was not a localized release. I know which link I need to select and I can already envision one of the documents it will take me to.
    Selecting the link lands me on a single page. The title is basic, but one we never would have guessed: “Sore Loser Virus, Response to Global Release.” There is an ordered list of steps and topic headlines. Each headline presumably linked to the detailed instructions for that topic. At the bottom of the list, the final instruction reads “Initiate Managed Nuclear Winter” with the link color indicating what I already knew—it is a page I have previously visited.
    We have to irradiate the whole planet and wipe out life on Earth.
     

Chapter 6
     
     
    Jane was right. If we want to survive, we need to leave the planet. What isn’t clear is how to initiate the managed nuclear winter, or how long it will last. Perhaps we can tough it out on the International Space Station until the radiation drops to a survivable, if not comfortable, level.
    What do I do now? I’m not a leader. I don’t like standing up in front of people and telling them about what I know. My mind was at once critical of the response protocol. Clearly it was constructed after the virus. How could it not have been a requirement that any biological weapon have a safety valve? You don’t build something that can destroy all humans and