Brett Hinkly

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At 9:00 P.M., Hornig climbed to the top of the hundred-foot tower as rain began to fall. He brought a collection of humorous essays, Desert Island Decameron. His reading was interrupted by the arrival of a violent electrical storm. Atop the tower in a flimsy metal shed, Hornig sat alone with the book, the fully armed device, a telephone, and a single lightbulb dangling from a wire. He was twenty-five years old and had recently earned a Ph.D. in chemistry at Harvard. Having designed the X-unit, he knew better than anyone how easily it could be triggered by static electricity.
Command and Control
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