Your experience modeling virus propagation at Kramden Anti-Virus will be very useful to us, Mr. Dietz.

Your clearance has been approved, and I can now give you the full scope of what will be doing at Sandia. For some time now there has been a comprehensive ban on the test detonation of nuclear weapons. A ban that not even rogue nations have dared to defy. Now, this has nothing to do with environmentalism, threat of reprisal, nor even good will. No, the real reason is that every time we detonate a nuclear device, atoms aren't all we fuse together. Each nuclear fusion reaction within Earth's gravitational field also forces together our reality with another, and for a short time, a door opens. When a door is open, anything can walk through it. In this case, Demons. No, no, I'm not crazy, and I'm not pulling your leg. I found it hard to believe too. Everyone did. None of this was immediately apparent. The Manhattan project, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, those were fission bombs- atoms split apart. Theory suggests that those actually widened the separation between Earth and...well, the other place. But fusion, that's another story. It took a while after the first tests to realize that when a fusion bomb detonates, for the few microsconds while the fusion reaction happens, a doorway to Hell opens, and somehow, we still don't know why, there is always a demon ready and waiting to jump through. That's actually the real reason that fusion power hasn't been developed. There are whole intelligence agencies dedicated to squashing it, but we don't deal with them much. You need to understand- demons aren't all horns and pointed tails. They don't even have physical forms. They're more like...abstracts. Concepts. Influences. Hate. Greed. Anger. Fear. Despair. That's what demons really are. Oh I know. Those are part of human nature. But demons are those things magnified, concentrated, and moving with a purpose. You can't deny that in a lot of ways, society has taken a downward turn since the 1950's. Crimes that were unimaginable before then seem to happen every day. Food production that was inconceivable 100 years ago leaves significant portions of the world starving. Homelessness. Poverty. Hate crimes. These have all been statistically modeled and traced back to demons released by nuclear detonations. So where do you come in? Well, at the heart of our nuclear deterrent is the need to develop better, more efficient systems. We can't do this without testing the weapons, though. The delivery systems can be tested in the real world, but the bombs themselves...well, obviously we can't. So we test them with computers. Supercomputers, as a matter of fact. Better and better systems to gain the most realistic possible simulation of a nuclear detonation. The problem is, computers have gotten much more powerful, and the simulations we perform these days are practically perfect... Have you ever wondered why a computer virus might get a name like 'Armegeddon' or 'MyDoom'?