The Mine by HP_Owner

Author:HP_Owner
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2005-10-04T00:34:08+00:00

Chapter 19

Ken was watching the Inauguration on CNN, morosely contemplating the end of Nevada Silver Mines Inc. and his dream. He was watching President-Elect Kerry about to be sworn in as President when there was a white streak across the sky and all of a sudden, the screen went white, then the signal was cut, followed by a STATION IDENTIFICATION logo, and a few minutes later, the feed resumed from their Los Angeles Bureau.

“This is Jose Lopez-Martinez with a late breaking story. We regret to inform you that there has been a large nuclear explosion in Downtown Washington DC. NORAD was taken completely off guard by this development, since our Cobra Dane radar and Space Based detectors didn’t detect a launch. Preliminary reports from Space Command indicate the blast was a 10 Megaton, That’s MEGATON blast which rules out Terrorism. Reports are sketchy at this time, but we cannot raise New York or Boston either. Since this was the Inauguration, everyone from previous Presidents to the entire Congress was in attendance. We do not believe there are any survivors within a 25 mile radius around ground zero, which appears to be the Rotunda of the Capitol Building, where the swearing in was to occur. Noticeably absent were any members of the Joint Chiefs, and this reporter doubts they were invited. We are getting unconfirmed reports of mass casualties up and down the Eastern Seaboard. As you can imagine, power, phones and everything else dependent on electricity is out from Virginia to Maine due to the massive EMP

pulse generated by this bomb. This just in… OH MY GOD!!.…Ladies and Gentlemen, I have just been handed word that additional detonations estimated at 10 Megatons have gone off in the city centers of New York City and Boston, MA. This has now been confirmed by Space Command. As you can imagine fatalities are measured in the thousands to millions, and casualties are in the millions. We have no confirmation of the numbers. I have just been handed this. It seems there is no one authorized by the government to resume the authority of the Federal Government, since everyone was at the Inauguration Ceremony. It seems the one person designated as the holdout was visiting his granddaughter in NYC when the bomb leveled the entire city, and threw fallout all over New Jersey and the surrounding area. The Joint Chiefs had their conference in Hawaii interrupted by this event, and are flying back to the Continental US in a VIP 747, with a full military escort. They have released a statement deploring the event, calling for calm, and activating and federalizing the National Guard for disaster services.

More information will follow as we receive it. This is Jose Lopez-Martinez reporting Live from our CNN studios in Los Angeles.”

Ken turned down the volume for a minute. His emotions were overwhelming him; On one hand was relief that the Mine and his dream would remain untouched. followed by grief for all the fatalities and casualties. He was sure CNN was off by a factor of 10 on the fatalities.

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