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plan. They wanted to divert its attention from the inner affairs of the Eastern Bloc by forcing the
New Power to devote its efforts to the welfare of all mankind.
With all means meant the deployment of the latest, most terrible weapon the people on Earth
had ever developed by their own inventionтАФthe catalytic fusion bomb.
Everybody still remembered clearly when Perry Rhodan took his first steps on the ladder to
success by preventing another war on Terra. He had surrounded the entire globe with a neutron
absorption shield which had soaked up the neutrons the uranium of the atom bombs were
supposed to split. None of the atom bombs exploded nor any of the fusion bombs which were
triggered by atom bombs.
The absorption shield presented no defence against catalytic bombs. The process of fusion
required no neutrons and the trigger of the bomb was not based on the device of an atom bomb.
The Supreme Council voted unanimously to go to war. It had never adopted a resolution that
had not been unanimous. The time for the attack was set for June 13th, midnight Moscow time.
The Armed Forces were given 26 hours to prepare for the action.
The session of the Supreme Council and especially the measures it had taken were kept a
strict secret. They were determined that nothing of the Supreme CouncilтАЩs intention could leak
to the public until the last second before the war broke out.

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Strelnikow and his officers would have been much less confident had they known that the
decision of the session had remained no secret. All speeches, objections and instructions in the
conference room had been transmitted by mikes and loudspeakers. Nothing reached the outside
but the electrical impulses created by the sound of the conversation were sent through the
wiring of the room. The alternating current excited an electromagnetic field around the
conductors and the impulses modulated the field. All it took was a receiver sensitive enough to
pick up the modulated field several thousand kilometres away where it was even weaker than
the atmospheric static. But it also required a knowledge where the field originated. Only then
was the directional receiver in a position to suppress the static and to select from the manifold
signals what was desired with the air of an interconnected combination.
Every one of the terrestrial radio technicians would have entered a bet that such a receiver
could not be built. But they would have lost their bet. The Stardust had several of these efficient
receivers and Rhodan was able to monitor every word spoken at the meeting. It was less clear
than being present himself but it left not the slightest doubt about the abominable plot they
hatched.
Rhodan was aware that the Eastern Bloc possessed catalytic fusion bombs against which the
neutron absorption shield was ineffective and he could have exerted his hypnotic influence on
the Supreme Council by leaving his present position in the southern Ural mountains had it not
been for the fact that another tactic held a greater promise of more lasting effect.
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On the 13th of JuneтАФit was still the 12th on the Aleutian IslandsтАФthe whole world listened.
Perry Rhodan, Chief of the New Power, interrupted all radio and television programs and
issued a proclamation to the people of Terra. He informed everybody who was concerned about
the conspiracy of the Eastern Bloc. He assumed the protection of Terra against all attackers
domestic as well as extraterrestrial in origin and he had a special surprise for Strelnikow and the
others before he concluded his speech.
Strelnikow saw RhodanтАЩs face move toward him on the picture screen. тАЬListen to me,
Strelnikow,тАЭ Rhodan said, тАЬI want to tell you what IтАЩm going to do tonight. If you and your
people wonтАЩt come to your senses before itтАЩs too late, IтАЩm going to give you a little