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One huge screen that lay against the far wall held a es taken of the Destiny Enterprises e were not froether and conceptualized after being shot from an aircraft several miles off to one side of the facility There were no overhead ies because theover the South Pole The only direct radio contact with Cleary's assault force came from a civilian communications satellite used by United States ice research stations on the Ross Ice Shelf that was linked to the Pentagon

Another screen revealed President Dean Cooper Wallace, six members of his cabinet, and a team of his close advisers, ere seated around a table in the secure room deep beneath the White House

The directors of the CIA and FBI, and Ron Little and Ken Hel with Congresswoman Loren Se of Destiny Enterprises While they acted as advisers to the President on what had been given the code name Apocalypse Project, Adon and acted as consultant on their end

"What is the countdown, General?" asked the President

"One hour and forty-two minutes, sir," General Amos South, head of the joint Chiefs, answered "That is the time our scientists tell us when tidal currents are at their height to separate the ice shelf and carry it out to sea"

"Just how accurate is this intelligence?"

"You ht say it comes from the horse's mouth," Loren replied "The timetable was revealed by Karl Wolf hiists and experts on nanotechnology"

"Since Adanization," explained Ron Little, "we have accuence on what the Wolfs call the Valhalla Project It all adds up to the off the Ross Ice Shelf and upsetting Earth's rotational balance in order to cause a polar shift"

"Triggering a cataclysinable destruction," added Loren

"We've co up Little "We've asked experts in the field of nanotechnology to study the facts, and all agree The Wolfs have the scientific and engineering capability to execute such an unthinkable act"

The President stared into the monitor at General South "I still say, send in a round"

"Only as a last resort, Mr President The Joint Chiefs and I strongly agree that it is too risky"

Ade, Chief of the Navy, entered the discussion "One of our aircraft equipped with radar intercept systems has arrived on site They've already reported that the Wolffacility has superior radar equiptih ti the doomsday switch early, a situation that ain, a risk that is a poor gamble at best"

"If, as you say," said Wallace, "their radar equipment is rated as superior, haven't they already been alerted by your aircraft and the signals it sends out?"

Adlances before Eldridge replied "Because it is highly classified, it is known only by a select few that our new radar warning systems are virtually undetectable Our radar interception aircraft is below the horizon We can bend our signals to read theirs, but they cannot find or read ours"