The Hamlet Warning (28 page)

“There’s where you’re wrong,” Loomis told him. “This was just a warning for the future. There’ll be other bombs, other Hamlet Groups, as long as you people are so careless with your materials.”

“Maybe Washington has learned something.” 

“I doubt it,” Loomis said. “Your power plant reactors are turning out more of the crap all of the time. What in hell are you going to do with all of it?”

Johnson shrugged in his Mae West. “How would I know?” he said. “It’s not
my
problem. What’s your answer on the job?”

“Tell them I’ll think about it,” Loomis said.

Johnson looked around at the horizon. “It just occurs to me. This is one hell of a big ocean you got out here. How long you think we’ll have to wait before they find us?”

“Iberra will be here in twenty minutes or so,” Loomis said. “He shouldn’t have any trouble locating us. We left him a good marker.”

Iberra made it in fifteen. He lowered a sling and Loomis helped Johnson into the loop.

Loomis waited in the water until the sling came back, slipped into the loop, and was lifted to the open bay of the chopper.

They hovered for several minutes, watching the huge mushroom cloud drift slowly toward the west.

Then Iberra wheeled the bird toward Santo Domingo and a long night of decontamination and celebration.

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