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Irresistible Weapon, by Horace Brown Fyfe
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Title: Irresistible Weapon
Author: Horace Brown Fyfe
Illustrator: Ed Emshwiller
Release Date: September 15, 2009 [EBook #29994]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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There's no such thing as a weapon too horrible to use; weapons will continue to become bigger, and deadlier. Like other things that can't be stopped....
IRRESISTIBLE WEAPON
By H. B. Fyfe
Illustrated by ED EMSH
In the special observation dome of the colossal command ship just beyond Pluto, every nervous clearing of a throat rasped through the silence. Telescopes were available but most of the scientists and high officials preferred the view on the huge telescreen.
This showed, from a distance of several million miles, one of the small moons of the frigid planet, so insignificant that it had not been discovered until man had pushed the boundaries of space exploration past the asteroids. The satellite was about to become spectacularly significant, however, as the first target of man's newest, most destructive weapon.
"I need not remind you, gentlemen," white-haired Co-