Cold Victory

From the back cover of the Tor first edition: The Psychotechnic Institute - Born in the radioactive ashes of world War Three the Institute for Applied Psychotechnics had guided Planet Earth to a period of plenty that for the first time fulfilled Science's promise. But it is the central irony of human existence that prosperity bears the seeds of its own destruction, this time not just Earth but the entire Solar System would endure the flames of war. Cold Victory.