Lamar Swift, Executive Director of the Solar Federation, who has led the war effort against Deneb (another planet), says that it will be hard to imagine life without war. John Henderson, in response, expresses joy that the Denebians have been destroyed. Swift gives the credit to Multivac as he glances at Max Jablonski, who has worked closely with the machine. Swift wonders if Jablonski is jealous of the credit the machine is being given by the population of earth. Jablonski contemptuously replies that if they want to celebrate the machine, he doesn’t care