"Mr. President, the experts say it can't be done."
John had just sat down at his desk when Sullivan brought him some terribly bad news.
The B61 nuclear bombs had already arrived at the base of the Pacific Fleet, and the USS Wyoming, an Ohio-class submarine, was already at the pier waiting for its missile warheads to be retrofitted; everything was going smoothly.
Adjusting the yield was easy, and the 1.6 million tons of yield had barely received congressional approval.
However, at this point, The International Atomic Energy Agency raised objections.
The reason for the opposition was that the yield was too large, exceeding the safety value set for the control area of 1.3 million tons by about 23%.
This wasn't to say that a large yield would damage the facilities in the control area—those were all strong fortresses capable of directly withstanding yields of tens of millions of tons; the main issue was the electromagnetic pulse.
