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  Earth Lost Without Power

  The Neutron Bomb

  L. S. Wood

  EARTH LOST WITHOUT POWER

  THE NEUTRON BOMB

  Copyright © 2017 L. S. Wood.

  Book Cover Illustrated By Larry S Wood

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  This book is a work of fiction. Everything within this book comes from the imagination of the author. Any reference to a person’s name or names and places are fictitious in general. Any resemblance to persons living or dead and events are entirely coincidental.

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  ISBN: 978-1-5320-1650-9 (sc)

  ISBN: 978-1-5320-1651-6 (e)

  Library of Congress Control Number: 2017904361

  iUniverse rev. date: 5/15/2017

  Dedication

  I would like to dedicate this and my other new books to come to a wonderful woman, my beautiful wife, Rebecca, a person with a heart of gold who loves to help others. To our son, Scott, a single caring father of four children who live with him. To our daughter, Jennifer, a dedicated veterinarian and mother. To our wonderful five grandchildren; Amber, Sarah, Stacey, Stephen, and Kendrick.

  Contents

  1.Hitler’s Germany

  2.Red Alert

  3.The Detonator

  4.The Word

  5.The Convoy

  6.Facts Unknown

  7.The Arrival of Brass

  8.Curiosity Killed the Cat

  9.Bye Bye Biplane

  10.The Downfall of the Neutron Bomb

  11.The Great Launch

  12.The Flaw

  13.A Horrific Sighting

  14.The Unexpected Furry of Futility

  15.The Final Decision

  16.The Eye in the Sky

  17.The Big Flash

  18.Devastation in the Air

  19.The Lucky Ones

  20.Empty Skies over Earth

  21.The Clearing Sheen

  22.The Gruesome Sight

  23.Eyes toward the Heavens

  24.A Prayer for a Daughter, a Mother, a Wife

  25.Decaying Death March

  26.The Light of Night

  27.A Long Hard Year

  28.Preparing the Twitchel for Flight

  29.Returning Home

  30.Did They or Didn’t They

  31.The Loss of Thunder in the Skies

  32.Tried to Reach Out

  33.The Big Question

  34.The Long Wait

  35.The Reunion

  36.The White House

  37.Substitute Duty

  38.The Arrival Home

  39.Daring Pilots

  40.Sunday Morning Mass

  41.The Visitor

  42.Orders To Fly Again

  43.Early Morning Exercise

  44.The Night Before Takeoff

  45.The Time To Fly

  46.The Final Countdown

  47.The Lottery for Life or Death

  48.Excitement of a Sighting

  49.The Beautiful Launch

  50.The Departure

  51.The Suffering

  52.Back on the Farm

  53.Hope

  54.Back Aboard the Space Station

  55.Survival in Space

  56.The Stay of Time

  57.Let the Lottery Begin

  58.Going Home

  59.The Eye of the Storm

  60.The Great Escape

  61.The Capsule

  62.The Gargantua 1st Wave

  63.A New Day For Life

  64.The Long Wait

  65.A Tiny Sailboat

  66.The Watchful Eye in the Sky

  67.Stone Deaf Ears

  68.The Seventh Day

  69.The Friendly Port of Call

  70.The Last Shuttle of the Fleet

  71.Going Home

  72.The Last Flight To Space

  73.The Choice of No Return

  74.The Decision

  75.The Last Mercy Mission

  76.Safely in Orbit

  77.The Happy Eye in the Sky

  78.A Friendly Voice in Space

  79.The Docking

  80.The Last Stage

  81.The Return

  82.The Sonic Boom

  83.A Lonely Cloud

  84.The Loss of a Mission

  85.Many Eyes Focused on the Heavens

  86.Home at Last

  87.The Celebration

  CHAPTER ONE

  Hitler’s Germany

  During the 1940’s with World War II playing out in full-scale battle abroad, Hitler’s new Germany was in its final stages in its attempt to develop and detonate the first atomic nuclear device ever known to mankind. This new weaponry would facilitate his warring Germany to triumphant control over the entire world.

  The Norwegian ferry, the SF Hydro, leaving Norway for a German port, was blown up and sunk by Norwegian resistance forces in its attempt to deliver the special liquid cargo it carried. The cargo onboard was an enriched heavy water required by Hitler’s scientists in making the new atomic weaponry. The ship had to be sunk in order to slow Hitler‘s scientists down long enough for the united allies from the western world to bring the nuclear age into fruition. The special heavy water was in railroad tanker cars on the ferry sailing towards Germany, and would afford Hitler’s physicists in their efforts to produce the deadly weaponry they would use against the world.

  The acidic heavy water was laden with suspended neutrons floating wildly in the water. The enriched liquid was made possible by passing massive amounts of highly charged electrical values in strong voltage through ordinary water treated with potash. The proses raised the waters acidic level to a high acidic level above the 14ph+ percentage. The heavy water when mixed properly would turn raw uranium into usable plutonium uranium for the new weaponry they were trying so desperately to make.

  In the United States during this time, volunteers by the hundreds worked diligently on a similar project. They all worked to perform new applications in mathematical equations, in order to defeat the power seeking Germans in bringing to fruition the first atomic bomb and weaponry ever made.

  Volunteers worked tirelessly in order to keep Hitler’s militaristic Germany from ruling the planet. A strong effort by everyone, the Manhattan project came to fruition in record time. Many sleepless nights encountered by the dedicated people around the United States working on different mathematical problems developing and completing the
weaponry of destruction for war and peaceful purposes as well.

  Involved in the Manhattan project, were two very highly trained doctors in physics. Both were busy calculating, anxiously toiling away at their jobs in a bombproof shelter. The secret laboratory was made up of modular formed steel cubicles with pre-stressed concrete construction applied to their outer sidewalls. The U.S. Government purposely hid the Trinity testing facility buried beneath the hot remote desert sands of Los Alamos, New Mexico.

  Dr. Charles A. Swatter and his associate Dr. Roger K. Sterling, with their trustworthy staff, were vigorously at work testing all mathematical equations calculated and sent in from around the country in the stability of raw materials needed to complete the complicated project. The doctors tested and retested mathematical equations over and over again within their busy minds.

  They had to design a molecular fusion formula to calculate the outcome of this new weaponry using the first unnatural division in high quality properties of altered plutonic uranium. In detonation, the fusion would split atoms in nanosecond timing, turning the new substance into as fast an acting division upon millions in concentrated uranium atoms simultaneously exploding into trillions if not bazillions of tiny little atomic fragments.

  The massive heat generated by these gases would first push out from its epicenter and then be sucked instantaneously back to its point of origin. If their calculations were right, the explosion would cause a reverse action thrusting masses of debris and smoke rapidly skyward up into the earth’s atmosphere as a massive mushroom flume high above the earth‘s crust. The two doctors assigned to this special project were highly recognized American physicists. Both committed against time for world peace in accomplishing the first ever massive atomic nuclear device.

  The hefty bombs would have to be loaded into the fuselage of a large Army Air Force bomber, and then quickly flown abroad to the enemy’s homeland in order to help end the world war.

  Heads of states from around the world and the United States anticipated the making of this new weaponry would bring world peace to the globe and an end to wars caused by evil forces around the earth forever.

  The new bomb required a special highly enriched plutonic uranium ore. The purest most stable uranium ore they could find. The ore used in making this particular bomb had been obtain from a once thriving gold mine found deep in the Alaskan wilderness. An old gold miner found the highly enriched organic substance strictly by accident. He discovered the uranium ore after becoming severely sick from the ore’s high radioactive strength as he dug further down into his gold claim, deep within the rugged wilderness of Alaska’s last frontier.

  The radioactive strength in this plutonic ore read very high very powerful on the first manmade neophyte radiation-detecting device ever made by man. A new sensing device made for detecting radioactive potency in any radioactive material.

  The doctors worked feverishly hard with these two materials to bring them together to react with one another with great force. One substance made by man, the other material made natural by origin. Using mathematical formulas in safely developing these new devices before some other hostile nation of mass destruction might first invent them.

  One day, these atomic devices might supply electrical power to the world around, and put an end to all the millions of tons in coal burned daily by the electrical power-generating plants around the world. Their many smoke stacks shooting out tons of massive deadly toxic emissions daily, destroying the earth’s atmosphere and air we breathe with dense smog, killing the ozone layer surrounding the planet that protects it from the sun.

  The main goal in the nuclear project was to put an end to the raging World War II fully engrossed across the seas, both east and west of the American coastlines. The doctors not knowing at the time that the new weaponry would be sent to the islands of Japan, instead of going over to warring Germany where the new bombs were intended to go in the first place.

  Days filled with exhausting hours away from their loved ones consumed by the urgent project. The doctors confined themselves similar to prisoners of war, of their own making, within the confines of the hidden laboratory below the hot desert sands in total solitude. The physicists, whether asleep at home or awake at work, continually worked mind-bogglingly hard trying to find a link to the solution to the demise in the worthy project.

  They labored from the early morning hours of day until the late of the night and sometimes into the break of daylight without sleep, trying hard to bring prompt closure to this very needy project that they were in command of. With the world depending on them, they had the weight of the planet resting upon their shoulders. Their loving, understanding wives did not bother their husbands, knowing they were dedicated patriots to their country and the safety of their loved ones abroad and at home. Their children did not understand their father’s absence at the time, but would understand later on in the outcome.

  They painstakingly laid out what lay ahead in creating the deadly device to bring it to fruition for world peace. The government did not want a single word leaked out about the experiments going on at the facilities especially to the doctors’ wives, children or relatives. They were afraid that if they knew anything about the special project that they might become primary targets of an enemy undercover agent. The doctors were extremely lonely from being gone from their families for so long.

  Minutes away by vehicle from the main entrance to the laboratory inside the same compound was an Army Air Force airfield. It included a fully staffed Army ground force assigned to the field for additional protection. The airfield was built for added security in protecting the experimental laboratory by air with a strong defense airbase equipped with the most modern fighter aircraft warring machines newly owned by the United States military.

  These pilots assigned to this special airfield were of the highest top-gun quality flying aviators on constant standby alert, ready to respond in a spilt second notice should a red alert sound out at the air station. These pilots were on the ready should any aircraft, especially an enemy aircraft, approach the facilities from the air, or should a small foreign ground force breach the U.S. borders or shorelines, and attempt a go of it against the special security defense mechanisms put in place surrounding the fortress and laboratory facility.

  The laboratory’s main entrance into the special underground facility was located several minutes away by car from its center point to its outer bordering circumference and security points. They built the compound in the shape of a large wagon wheel, protected by a modern day electrified monitor -sensing fence surrounding its most outer perimeter.

  The new electronic fence ran on a no amp, low current, high sensitive sonar sensing wave link, first of its kind silicone wiring device, equipped with high frequency sensitivity receiving and sending sensors.

  This enabled the laboratory’s security monitors to pick up the smallest of tiny non-threatening rodents or smaller animals that might amble up close to the fence while eating grassy mounds in sod and plant life growing in or around the sandy dunes located around the facility.

  The radar screen at the command center was similar a sonar screen used in a submarine, but ten times larger. Three trained soldier airmen stood or sat at their duty stations at all times in front of the security screen, monitoring it’s every detection transmitted upon its surface. All three simultaneously watched for intruders. They could tell by the numbers generated in binary code from the fence, as those patterns generate into figures on the screen. The screen monitored twenty-four hours a day, three hundred and sixty five days a year.

  They would watch this screen until fruition of the experimental bomb or its sudden end decided by a high military ranking officer, or a higher-ranking government official due to the extreme cost, too great for the country to manage or if not needed for the end of the war had come, whichever came first. A second security fence around the compound was a fortified fortress fence placed just a
few feet inside the main security sensing wire.

  The coiled up lethal wires installed for additional security in case an assembly of unfriendly aliens from a foreign land tried to scale it. Guard shacks were located every few thousand feet apart dotting the outer perimeter of the facility to increase its measure in securing the post. These guard shacks were securely connected with an assortment of telephone lines surrounding the facilities buried at different intervals in depths underground, should a small force or enemy try to break into the compound.

  The guards stationed in these shacks were supposed to report any low flying aircraft flying below the radar-detecting devices surrounding the compound trying to fly over the facilities to the main dispatch. To enter, one would first have to enter through a stringent security measurement point put into place at the secluded Army airfield. There they would first have to pass through a tight securities screening station, and then proceed through another gated area to gain access to the lengthy dirt roadway leading out the desert to the laboratory’s entrance.

  Every pilot and soldier stationed at the Army Air-Force airfield were all top security personnel, having been background checked one by one, and hand selected to serve the country at this special facility. With top security in place, men without top security badges at the base were not allowed beyond the inner boundaries from within their restricted duty area.

  None of the men stationed there were allowed to venture too near the main entrance to the hidden laboratory’s entrance inside the compounds epicenter, except for a few selected individuals, having many eyes watching over their entrance by higher-ranking individuals than they were.

  All personnel at the facilities singularly picked out by military securities personnel located at the newly formed military leaders facilities in Washington D.C., and recommended by military leaders from around the nation. These pilots had proven themselves worthy as topnotch pilots in the new aircraft they flew at their designated fighter training flight schools they all attended. These pilots were dedicated airmen, brothers to one another, loyal to all, to their country, and ready to fly into combat at a moment’s notice. Ready to give up their lives against all odds to protect the new security compound they were assigned to protect against all foreign troops or enemy aircraft, whichever might try to breach the compound’s high security system.