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"Doctor?"

Harry was sweating. Nuclear weapons were all but gone now
-- their removal the pot of real gold at the end of the Cold
War, insured by a world willing to make sure that no small
bandit nation started producing them again. Nuclear weapons --
the flesh-melting special anguish of the 20th century. The
devil incarnate, the inverse horror lining, of every Nipponese
dream. What further damage would his discovery do to this
injury that every one of his people carried deep in their souls?
What demons was he setting loose?

He and his team had tested their hypothesis very
stringently -- on mice, on monkeys, and yes, even on people.

Harry cleared his throat, but his mind was beyond any calming
or clarification. He forced himself to speak. "There is no doubt in
our findings. Radiation -- of a certain specific kind, a kind engineers
call general and high-level and dirty -- was the catalyst for our leap
in intelligence."

"Radiation from the Hiroshima bomb," the PM finished the
thought.

"Yes."

"Nagasaki too," the PM said. He wanted this spelled out in
every excruciating detail.

"Yes."

"That's where the new DNA strands, the first spurts on the
intelligence tests, first appeared. Correct, Doctor?"

"Yes."

The Prime Minister nodded slowly and looked at Harry with
intense, probing, but approving eyes. Why approving? Why not
furious, why not outraged that Harry had located the source of
Japanese ascendancy in the charred dead breath of the only
atomic weapons ever used on human beings?

"And your view, please, of the impact of this news on world
psychology?" the PM prompted.

"Takahara-sama, my area of expertise is not public
psychology--"

"Dr. Harihoto! Please do not make me repeat myself. I've