From: Chairman, Security Council, United Nations.
To: Major Rafe King, via all above channels.
Subject: The Kalahari Tests.
1. Returned for amplification. It is deemed advisable, in view of
publicity attendant on the Cuba-Yataritas angle of the Kalahari Desert
tests, to make public the following facts. First, best protection
against the A-Bomb is worldwide observation by special television; the
Council has it. Second necessity is ability to make the bombproofs,
provided by the Security Council, available to anybody, anywhere
in the world, who is threatened by attack. Bombproofs are capable
of instant transmission to any spot on the face of the globe--and
removal of bombproof _and occupants_ to anywhere else in the world--as
Cuba-to-Kalahari-to-Guam.
2. Amplification on the "Shadow Men" is required. Every nation in the
world, on the honor of its chief executive, has denied all knowledge
of the "Shadow Men." Any Fifth Column from "Outside" is considered
fantastic beyond all possibility.
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Well, there it is. The high brass all along the way has spoken. Now
it's up to me. I checked to find that every nation in the world _had_
denied knowledge of the Shadow Men--except our own United States. But
without asking for volunteers, our most ruthless high brass would not
have sent us to face those shadows, wherein someone was almost certain
to die horribly.
So, some nation has lied! We, the United Nations, have the perfect
A-bomb-proof, capable of instant transmission to anywhere it is needed.
We can also see where it is needed, through our World Visual Section.
But, as usual, for every attack weapon, there is a defense. For every
defensive weapon there is, eventually, a weapon which will crack it. We
have the best defensive gadget ever constructed, but somebody has the
grim, black answer to it!