The Dreadful Alchemist: A Thrilling Espionage Novel (Techno thriller, Mystery & Suspense Book 1) by David Charles Z

Author:David, Charles Z [David, Charles Z]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2015-05-01T16:00:00+00:00

May 19th, Vienna and Padova

In the morning David flew back to Vienna and was met by Orna Cohen at the airport. The ITF members were already gathered in one of the conference rooms of the IAEA headquarters and received David's report about the events and findings in Padova with ashen faces.

The American delegate, Eugene, was the first to recover from the shocking news, and said that they should discuss the ways and means needed to transport the device from the warehouse to the target area. Assuming that the device indeed consisted of a U-233 fissile material core and was not manufactured by a fully equipped advanced workshop it would probably be quite cumbersome as it would have to be a primitive implosion type device. He speculated that it may be as large and as heavy as the "fat man" plutonium bomb dropped on Nagasaki at the end of Second World War and would therefore require a crane to lift it and a truck to carry it. He suggested that they first look for trucks and cranes in the Padova area that may have been used to transport the device.

Vassilly interjected that if an expert such as Dr. Smalley was involved then perhaps they could do with a much smaller and lighter design. He also emphasized that the Nagasaki atomic bomb had to be transported and dropped by an airplane, requiring an additional protective shell of heavy metal while the improvised nuclear device would be transported on land, and perhaps by sea, and would not need this heavy shell.

The British member of the task force, Thomas, said that he had closely examined Smalley's qualifications and found that he had no access to anything but quite primitive designs so that Eugene's assumption that the device would be large and heavy was probably correct though Vassilly's point was also valid.

David added that if a truck was used to transport the device it could be hundreds of kilometers from Padova as at least 12 hours, and possibly 24 hours, have passed since the device left the warehouse. He then excused himself, left the conference room and called Umberto with the new information and speculations asking him to find all companies in the Padova area that had cranes, trucks and especially flat bed trucks equipped with cranes. He asked him to look into sales and rentals of such equipment and then returned to the conference room.

The discussion now focused on the wisdom of contacting Interpol about these developments and the consensus was that it would only cause panic all over Europe if news of an unsupervised nuclear device got out. They then talked about involving the Secretary General and the IAEA and decided to wait before alerting the agency because of the same reasons. They agreed that regardless of the exact location of the target they had to alert the friendly intelligence agencies of the European countries, especially those in which strong racist and separatist movements were active and strengthen the radiation monitoring network on the major highways and in ports in case its target was a large harbor town.

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