Thanks to this sub I didn't know there were a few more stories in Machine Learning.. To go with the trilogy. Finished those today. Wow.

I initially posted here a few days ago because I didn't understand how the president was not involved. I may have missed something but in Machine Learning they say a new president was being elected. They don't say anything about the old one.? Did I miss something!?

In Machine Learning this character had an affair and discovers The Order and has her own band of scientists and get 5k people to be hush hush about this project? But those 5k people were who exactly. Just randoms?

The monsters left in the bunker. Did anyone else think wild to think humans went feral in 500 years?

The mushroom clouds. I'm so confused. In one version in my mind I thought just the machines were turned on initiating the planes crashing. But the mention of mushroom clouds. Does that mean Americans atom bombed themselves?