Zombies of Iwo Jima by Dane Hatchell

Author:Dane Hatchell [Hatchell, Dane]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Mind Hemorrhage Press
Published: 2012-07-17T04:00:00+00:00

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The sun rose on the cloudless morning of March 10th, in Los Alamos, New Mexico. The hands on the large white faced clock, hung precariously on the wall, pointed to 9 AM. The room was barren of creature comforts save for the most basic. This consisted of a serviceable table with enough chairs to accommodate each member of the atomic bomb Target Committee.

General Groves had appointed J. Robert Oppenheimer as head of the Target Committee. He and eight other scientists, along with four representatives from the military, were given the grievous tasks of choosing which two cities of the Imperial Nation of Japan would be the first to feel the destruction of America’s new atomic weapon.

General Farrell had the floor and had been going over every gruesome detail of the series of photographs the other members studied.

Oppie flipped one by one through each photograph. Horrific photos of stiff-walking, decaying Japanese soldiers in various encounters seemed to stare back at him. Many photos showed the zombies eating their American adversaries. His gaze darted to his civilian colleagues, and met with head shakes of disbelief. Dr. Wilson excused himself. It didn’t stop the committee from hearing him vomit in the hall.

Oppie waited for the General to finish his briefing. “So, the Japanese have figured out a way to reanimate their dead with a virus?”

“Yes, sir. The Emperor had his top biologist working on a solution to fill the need for experienced Zero pilots. The virus was successful at reanimating the dead, but did not deliver the results the Emperor demanded. The creatures that emerge are nothing more than lobotomized eating machines. The living flesh of humans is their only craving,” the General said. “If they can perfect the virus and reanimate thinking, reasoning warriors, well, it would greatly complicate things for us.”

Oppie rose from his chair. “General, where is the manufacturing facility for this virus?”

The General opened a cardboard tube lying on the table, removed a map, and rolled it out for all to see. “There are two facilities manufacturing the virus. Here,” he tapped his index finger on the map, “Hiroshima. And here,” he tapped the map again, showing the next location, “Nagasaki.”

Oppie raised both of his palms to the air. He turned to those on his left, and then to those on his right. “As I see it, the only targets for us to consider are these two cities. Is there any need for further discussion?”

No one said a word. Then, one after another, each said no. The targets had been chosen, for reasons none could have ever imagined before the meeting.

J. Robert Oppenheimer felt peace unlike he had felt since the day he convinced Robert Wilson and the other scientists at that meeting months before to continue the Manhattan Project until completion.

The world was unknowingly at risk from a virus that could potentially destroy all of mankind. It would be the power of the atom that would wipe that threat clean.

Robert Wilson referred to the atomic bomb as, ‘This horrible thing to come.

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