1. Various arcane values are tuned for pleasing affect. For instance, blast size and number of increments (in circles.c), and delay between blast updates (in blast.c) are tuned for reasonable affect without taking too much cpu time. The melting procedure, the size of blasts, the size of cites, and the above-ground distance (BURST_DISTANCE) also all cooperate to create aesthetically pleasing city blowups (if there can be such a thing). Everything will WORK just fine without arcane tuning, it will just not look as good. 2. I have not bothered to find out much about the proper way to draw vectors, and thus the missile traces are really a kludge, and sometimes they miss the top or bottom of the screen. But not often enough to fix, and perhaps its a feature--ICBM's from unusual directions. 3. I mostly used a tab setting of four, not eight, when creating this code. -mark