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In the book trinity's child and movie by dawn's early light based on the book there is a limited nuclear exchange between the us and Soviet union because the soviet premier wanted to stop the us military budget increase since it was pressing the soviet economy ( in the book). The book was made in 1983 when Reagan was around. In the movie it is in 1991 and the cause of the war is russian renegades launch a nuke at a soviet city from Turkey. The Soviets assume It is a nato attack and retaliate automatically. The war is brought to a ceasefire after the president successor is killed when the looking glass plane crashes into air force one. Note in both the original president was assumed dead when marine one crashed but is discovered and taken to a female place. In order to stop the president 's successor from ordering the launch of all submarine missiles again planes collide. I should note that in both the original president ordered an retaliation with all remaining us icbms and bombers because most were destroyed in the first attack. In the book Europe was neutral while Pakistan and Israel declared war on Pakistan. In both versions however china launches nukes at the Soviets due to a treaty with the us and is nuked by the Soviets in return. However in the book a soviet missile demonstrated in India causing India to believe it was Pakistan nuking them in return. These conflicts are not resolved by the end of the book or movie though. Let's go with the book version aftermath. Sorry for the wall of text I got overboard and memorized the plot well. Anyway any thoughts.