Governments are powerful creatures, Giants. When wounded, they tend to lash out like any other brute beast. When struck by a 1-2 punch from multiple nuclear detonations and a crippling bio-weapons attack, what is left of the government lashes out at the only target within its grasp, its citizens. When they lashed out at a lowly History teacher, from Central Illinois, they made a terrible mistake. They got his family but missed him... Howard "Rhino"...