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The Northwest Territories/61.07 N 89.90 W/November 26 |
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It is conceivable, however, that the bomb will be employed by an individual, or group, whose purpose is not to achieve some positive aim but simply to wreak havoc for its own sake. MARTIN VAN CREVELD, TECHNOLOGY AND WAR |
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The Device now lies at twenty fathoms under the windswept surface of the bay. At 120 feet it is very dark. Fish swim lazily around the large cylinder, almost hidden by a year's sedimentation. An eel roots in the mud that has built up against the casing. |
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Spreading out in a roughly fan-shaped distribution down-current from the Device, the rotting bodies of killed fish litter the bottom of the bay. Other fish have fed on them, then drifted away to die elsewhere. |
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The plutonium oxide that powers the small nuclear generator, which in turn runs the Device's automatic systems, has been leaking for almost a year. The ancillary systems continue to function because the power source has been made redun- |
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