A Colder War by Charles Stross
Basically; unspeakable horrors exist -- a mix of weird science and weird war -- with the US countering the Soviet possession of [UNKNOWN] with a squadron of NB-39 Peacemakers armed with PLUTO missiles -- their sole objective is to turn the Soviet location holding [UNKNOWN] into glass in case of war.
But...that's basically all that the US stops with -- the same NB-39s and PLUTOs are in service in the 1980s, instead of the total insanity a fully armed military industrial complex could produce; like say -- an ICBM version of the Thiokol High-Performance Solid Rocket Motor ;D etc.
So fellow SPFers, what would YOU come up with?
Basically; unspeakable horrors exist -- a mix of weird science and weird war -- with the US countering the Soviet possession of [UNKNOWN] with a squadron of NB-39 Peacemakers armed with PLUTO missiles -- their sole objective is to turn the Soviet location holding [UNKNOWN] into glass in case of war.
But...that's basically all that the US stops with -- the same NB-39s and PLUTOs are in service in the 1980s, instead of the total insanity a fully armed military industrial complex could produce; like say -- an ICBM version of the Thiokol High-Performance Solid Rocket Motor ;D etc.
So fellow SPFers, what would YOU come up with?