Project Yellow Sky
A Korean Conspiracy
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Chapter I
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The train screeched to a stop at Montgomery Station. Fred wedged his way through the humanity gathered at the exit doors and, as usual, just made it through as they closed hard behind him. He hurried up the escalator and jogged to his high-rise office building in time to jam his way into the elevator with the other “cattle” headed for work.
He knew he was running late, but he made his usual stop at the coffee vending machines before he headed for his desk. As he watched the cup overfill he grabbed it and burned his hand before he could retrieve it from the filling station.
“Damn! Did it again,” he muttered as he made his way to his cubicle. Hope they won’t notice I’m late again, he thought as he dropped in his chair and began digging through the stack of paper that littered his desk. Contrary to what the yokels in the business tabloids like to think, there is no paperless society in this world, at least not yet, he thought.
“You ready for the meeting?” Jeff Sanders asked from his next-door cubicle.
“What meeting?” Fred shot back.
“The one they just called to get an update on our progress.”
“Don’t the bastards know we’re busting our ass to get this damn report out of our here and get on with some real engineering?”
“Doesn’t matter,” snorted Jeff, “got to show the bosses we care about this thing, old man.”
The “report” was another Environment Impact Report concerning a project that everyone knew would probably not be built in its present form but could not be funded until all the environmental approvals were obtained. Most of the data presented in the report was “estimated” usually without a great deal of study to back it up. In fact, Fred himself had ginned up many of the numbers based on brief telephone talks or emails from company “experts” who had neither the time nor interest in the whole damn thing.
“Lets go Jeff,” Fred groaned as meeting time approached.
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A fictional account of an American engineer’s inadvertent involvement in
Written by a former engineer employed at the Department of Energy’s nuclear weapons development laboratory at