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SENATOR SCOTT STEPPED spryly up onto the stage. Cameras were rolling. Photographers snapped shots and reporters crowded the room. He did not want to look feeble and aging to the press corps —despite his advanced age—so he grinned as though he moved without the soreness and stiffness in his muscles that accompanied his age. He moved to the podium situated center stage. The round seal of the United States with the symbolic eagle, shield, olive branch, arrows, stars and stripes, like the great seals of ancient Judea and Rome, was attached to the front of the podium. “Ladies and Gentlemen, honored guests, and members of the press, thank you for your attention. My name is Senator Ray Scott. I have been a member of the United States Senate for a great number of years now, thanks to my constituency and God. It gives me great pleasure, after many hard won battles in congress, to announce to you today that the funding for the Atlas Pulsed Power Experimental Facility, which has been moved from Los Alamos in New Mexico to the Nevada Test Site, has been appropriated.” Senator Scott moved his eyes around the room, glancing quickly at each of the military guests and reporters in the room. His eyes held for a moment, caught in the gaze of a man standing against the back wall of the room.
The man nodded slightly, almost unnoticeably.
Senator Scott retuned the nod, then quickly moved his eyes, sweeping the room again, and continued with his speech. “The $49 million dollar Atlas Pulsed Power machine will be a great asset to our scientific community and will serve the United States well. Its ability to generate massive electromagnetic...” he paused, “Well, let me bring Doctor Joseph Bechtel to the podium to explain the significant accomplishments that this machine is capable of. Doctor Bechtel.”
“Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. I wasn’t prepared to speak. I’m really just here to support the Senator, who I can assure you knows every detail of the Atlas Pulsed Power Machine. But let me give it a try.” He adjusted the glasses on his nose, just as one would have expected of a scientist of physics to do, then continued, “The Atlas Pulse Powered Machine is really just a big magnet. The machine is a circle of twenty-four meters of approximately seventy nine feet in diameter, and has the ability to produce an electrical output that is equal to four times the world’s total electrical power production. The way it works is like this: the amperage of Atlas is very near, if not over, thirty million amps. The machine stores the built up electrical energy slowly, over a period of time, and then releases it in a jolt that is massive. The jolt of electrical energy is caught within the magnetic field and funneled into a thin beam that can project a plane from New York to Los Angeles in just a few seconds. It is a remarkable machine. You might say that it is a machine capable of permitting time travel...”
Senator Scott moved quickly, stepping in close to the Doctor, and gently eased him away from the microphone. “Thank you, Doctor Bechtel for that information. I know you weren’t prepared to speak, so we will keep any questions for Doctor Bechtel until after the press conference. I would also like to mention that our technical exchange with the Russian scientists on the Atlas project will also continue as planned. The exchange with Russia on pulse-powered science has been a great achievement for both of our countries. After all, it was with Rasputin that this journey all began. And it is with God’s blessing that we will continue.”
The man at the back of the room looked directly into Senator Scott’s eyes, a gaze that the Senator could not pull himself away from. The man raised his right hand and moved it to his forehead. He touched his forehead, then moved his hand to his chest, then his left shoulder and completed the gesticulation at his right shoulder. He brought his hand up to his lips and kissed the curled fingers and mouthed the words, “Father forgive them for they know not what they do.”
Both men, locked in each other’s gaze, glanced up to the round, black trimmed, plastic covered office clock, as the minute hand moved precisely into place. Ticking off the last second...to the third hour.
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