August, 1945. The United States drops atomic weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan in a last ditch effort to stop the imperialist military dictators from killing more people. Soon, there is an arms race between America and the Soviet Union with both sides trying to prove to the other that their weapons are more powerful.
With mutually assured destruction between nations, rouge actors were of the highest concern to the leaders. Could a simple set of keys stop World War Three?
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