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sleeping in their concrete beds.

There's a blurry photograph of a concrete box inside the file, snapped
from above by a high-flying U-2 during the autumn of '61. Three coffin-
shaped lakes, bulking dark and gloomy beneath the arctic sun; a canal
heading west, deep in the Soviet heartland, surrounded by warning
trefoils and armed guards. Deep waters saturated with calcium salts,
concrete coffer-dams lined with gold and lead. A sleeping giant pointed at
NATO, more terrifying than any nuclear weapon.

Project Koschei.


Red Square Redux

Warning
The following briefing film is classified SECRET
GOLD JULY BOOJUM. If you do not have SECRET
GOLD JULY BOOJUM clearance, leave the
auditorium now and report to your unit security
officer for debriefing. Failing to observe this notice
is an imprisonable offense.

You have sixty seconds to comply.

Video clip
Red Square in springtime. The sky overhead is
clear and blue; there's a little wispy cirrus at high
altitude. It forms a brilliant backdrop for flight
after flight of five four-engined bombers that
thunder across the horizon and drop behind the
Kremlin's high walls.

Voice-over
Red Square, the May Day parade, 1962. This is the
first time that the Soviet Union has publicly
displayed weapons classified GOLD JULY BOOJUM.
Here they are:

Video clip
Later in the same day. A seemingly endless stream
of armour and soldiers marches across the square,
turning the air grey with diesel fumes. The trucks
roll in line eight abreast, with soldiers sitting erect


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A Colder War - a novelette by Charles Stross

in the back. Behind them rumble a battalion of T-