TRINITY'S LEGACY (Vu-Hak War Book 1) by PA VASEY

Author:PA VASEY [VASEY, PA]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General Fiction
Published: 2019-04-05T06:00:00+00:00

STORAX/SEDAN: NTS/shaft/crater/1450ft/Classified/100Kt

“This is our baby. An underground detonation from 1953. The depth of the blast was almost one and half thousand feet under the desert floor, and it was designed to produce a large cavern that could then be evaluated for tunnelling viability. Tunnelling through mountains, I guess.” She highlighted the right hand column with the mouse. “The yield was approximately one hundred kilotons of TNT. That’s more than ten times the energy produced by the Hiroshima A-bomb.”

Hubert looked at me. “Kate, what’s odd about all of this is the absence of any eyewitness reporting of this detonation…”

“… And yet there are pages and pages of accounts documenting the other ones,” finished Stillman. “Most versions talk about explosions blowing the top off the shaft, and producing a cap which often collapsed, producing a crater or cavern.”

She relinquished the mouse somewhat reluctantly, and I double-clicked pictures of the detonations and their aftermath. Nuclear fireballs and hellish mushroom clouds spiralling into the stratosphere of a clear blue Nevada sky. Craters, difficult to size accurately as there were no surrounding trees or other vegetation to give it some scale. Groups of observers dressed in Army fatigues staring into the distance without any radiation protection or goggles.

“The Department of Energy estimated that more than three hundred megacuries of radioactivity remained in the local environment at the end of the nineties when they stopped testing,” said Holland. “This is one of the most radioactively contaminated locations in the United States. But according to the team on site, this particular crater isn’t radioactive at all.”

“I don’t understand,” I said. “How can there be no radioactivity?”

Holland lowered his chin and wiggled his eyebrows at me, “There is this ‘classified’ section…”

Hubert’s eyes hooded. “What’s classified appears to be the actual type of atomic weapon used,” he said. “You know, plutonium, or whatever.”

“And that information is provided for all the other tests, but not for this one,” said Holland. “So, basically we’ve no idea what produced this particular crater.” He took a large drink of what smelled to me like brandy.

“Shit,” I said looking alarmed. “Isn’t that kind of an important starting point?”

Hubert looked pointedly at Holland. “So Mike, I want this to be your priority. Get another team on site at the crater, A-SAP. You’re the point man. Security, electronics and detectors. Whatever you need. Set up mobile office and labs. Once you’re active, start round the clock surveillance of the crater and the cavern.”

Holland nodded, stood up and downed the rest of his drink. Hubert turned to Stillman. “Colleen, that site is to be isolated and sealed off. Get local PD to assist.”

“Roger that.” She pulled out her mobile and started tapping out numbers, but Hubert hadn’t finished. “We need to get the specs for the bomb that produced that crater. I want you to find out if any of the scientific team involved are still active. Or even alive. Contact whoever’s currently the chief of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and use my clearance. Don’t take any shit either.

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