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Chapter Twenty-Two
The Northwest Territories/61.07 N 89.90 W/November 29
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At the height of the cold war, the Energy Department's nuclear weapons laboratories considered building a warhead that would generate high-powered microwaves over a wide area, destroying the electronic equipment controlling the Soviets' mobile intercontinental ballistic missiles.
However, a member of the House Ways and Means Committee will sayon background onlythat the High Power Microwave Weapon and other similar exotic devices will never survive the budget process. Such devices, he said, are too expensive, too unreliable, and too destabilizing to be built in peacetime.
WASHINGTON POST
In the deep darkness, the Device stirs. The cylindrical casing has sunk deep in the alluvial mud of the bay bottom since being deposited there by the Pravda.
At the programmed time on this date, electrical power has been shunted to a set of servomotors, and the missile slowly

 
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