The laboratory director himself came out to them and introduced himself in American – Sir Charles. Rutra decided to keep up with his "colleague" and introduced himself with the prefix "Mr.". Sir Charles invited the guests into his office, offered coffee and soft drinks, asked them about their impressions of America, how life was in Russia, and for some reason, what we would do in case of failure. The officers accompanying Rutra smiled understandingly, and Rutra said, to make it more convincing, that they had already prepared a scenario for that eventuality.
After a few jokes about the Russian leadership, Charles proudly began to talk about his work, in a purely American manner – to praise himself and his own, although he was well aware of the awareness of the guests, at least – the chief guest.
– Los Alamos National Laboratory is one of the sixteen national laboratories of the U.S. Department of Energy. It houses the most powerful supercomputer in the world, the IBM Roadrunner-3. Los Alamos is one of two laboratories conducting secret nuclear weapons work in the United States. The other is Livermore National Laboratory. Incidentally, in December 2011, it was officially proposed to name chemical element #116 livermorium, which was subsequently approved. Supercomputers were installed at the Laboratory, which were among the most powerful supercomputers of their time. Following the example of the Internet – the world's global web – we decided to unite the world's major supercomputers into one network. This allows us to reduce the time it takes to solve multi-level problems. I can offer to run your program through this network.
– What centers will be used? – Ruthra inquired, since the transition from the introduction to the matter at hand had been made so soon.
– The major supercomputing centers with which we are networked are: Argonne National Laboratory; Livermore National Laboratory; Oak Ridge National Laboratory; National Computer Center for Higher Education and the Center for Computational Research and Technology in France; National Supercomputing Center in Sweden; National Center for Supercomputing Applications, located at the University of Illinois; Center for High Performance Computing, Stuttgart, Germany; J?lich Research Center, also Germany.
– A global solution," Ruthra marveled, which flattered the head of the lab.
– It is not for nothing that our laboratory is named after a great man," he said proudly and went on with his story. – The American physicist Ernest Lawrence was fascinated by invention from childhood. Together with his neighbor Merle Tuve, who also eventually became an outstanding physicist, they created their own system of wireless telephone. Back then, you know?
– Oh, yes, he was a gifted man," Ruthra said, again expressing his admiration, and politely decided to change the subject to work. – We're not in danger of losing program data or copying it, are we?
– No, we'll control the whole process from here. The other centers will help us solve the problem in blocks. Each center will do its part.
– All right, then. When do we start?
– Let's get started, we're prepared. It is also interesting for us, as it is for any mathematician to find a solution.
They took the elevator down to the operations room, passing through two checkpoints. Rutra's escort was not allowed through the last checkpoint. Rutra ordered the suitcase to be unbuckled, picked it up, and went on his own, accompanied by a receptionist.
In the operations room, Rutra performed identification for unlocking the lock, received a confirmation reply via satellite, called the Zero duty officer just in case, received confirmation, and opened the case. The device with the program was interfaced to the supercomputer system. Rutra sat down in the operator's seat, entered the unlock code, which consisted of forty lines of five digits, and surprised the people present by memorizing it and not hiding the action; they did not know about his "advanced" brain or the fact that the password was new each time. There were moments when Ruthra forgot that the unusual skills for people were the ones that were now commonplace to him.
The program began to integrate with the system, and operators began assigning "duties" to computers on the network.
– You can go rest, it's not a quick job," Charles Rutre said.
– Okay," Ruthra answered again in the American manner. – Only on the condition that you include the IP address of my device in the network and ensure uninterrupted wireless communication between the terminal and my case.
– Give me your information.
After a while, Ruthra, with the help of the hardware in the case, was fully able to observe what was being done with the program.
– Come on, I'll show you around," Charles suggested.
They went out, went upstairs, the receptionist invited them to a gazebo outside.
– What are your plans, where will you stay? We have prepared a hotel complex for you.
– Thank you, much appreciated. Perhaps we'll take a walk around your village today and think things over a bit about the second purpose of our visit.
– Can I ask you which one?
– We're interested in the possibility of sending a signal from an unidentified clandestine source, the location of which can be concealed. A high-powered signal, sustained and controlled by a system integrated into something like your center. That is, something with the ability to operate, calculate and decipher complex, multi-stage codes.
– Why do you want to know why, may I ask?
Ruthra gestured to the accompanying officers to leave. He decided to disguise his answer. He moved closer to Charles and whispered:
– This will seem implausible and fantastic to you, but as a colleague to a colleague, I will say this: we have received an unidentified signal from an unknown source. Earth origin is not confirmed.
– Are you kidding me?
– If only.
– So it's a sensation.
– Yeah? What if we're wrong? We need to check everything. The thing is, the signal penetrated the codes of the military satellites, unlocked them and tried to change the program.
– You know, this is not the first time this has happened, which surprised me.
– Was there something like that?
– If you don't know, I'll tell you, all of America is raving about aliens, and the fact that this signal penetrated the satellite control system in the first place confirms it.
Rutra thought, "I'm already convinced that all of America is delusional."
– I have been involved in many closed projects in my line of work, I have been to different sites, and everywhere there was a spirit of the unidentified.
– Can you elaborate on that?
– Prior to Los Alamos, I worked at Oak Ridge Laboratory, K-25 and Y-12 facilities.
Rutra didn't give any sign of his knowledge of the subject. He needed to be mistaken for an obsessed scientist, an image Rutra maintained.
– What's in there?
– What is Oak Ridge National Laboratory – you know. It's a national laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy. It is the largest science and energy laboratory in the Department's system. The lab has several powerful supercomputers, including Jaguar and its updated version, Titan, as well as several neutron research facilities. The K-25 facility was located in the southwestern part of Oak Ridge. The K-25 plant, when completed, was the largest building in the world. During the project, the main goal of which was to build an atomic bomb, workers labored in secret, not even realizing what would result from their work. An acquaintance of my mom's, Gladys Owens, didn't know what she was doing until she saw herself in a photo 50 years later at a public exhibition. The X-10 graphite reactor was the world's second man-made nuclear reactor and the first designed and built for continuous operation. It was used to build the first nuclear reactors in Iran, mind you, and Pakistan.
– You said, "pay attention." What was that about? – Ruthra asked.
– Someone needs it to be so, but officially it is declared otherwise.
– Well, well. So what's next?
– The Y-12 National Security Center is a U.S. Department of Energy center in suburban Oak Ridge, near the National Laboratory. The center manufactures components for nuclear weapons and stores the bulk of the U.S. stockpile of enriched uranium. Construction of the center began in February 1943, as part of the Manhattan Project. At Y-12, among other things, fuel was created for the bombs used in 1945 against the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
– Quite interesting, just what is the news, let me put it this way.
– The fact that in such centers, in addition to official, declared activities, albeit classified, there are other activities, classified even from those who have access to them.
– Like what?
– For example, I was involved in the SSP program; it is a nuclear arsenal management program in the United States. Nuclear weapons have not been produced in the United States since 1992, and the reliability and safety of nuclear weapons is ensured through simulations of nuclear explosions on supercomputers. Nuclear weapons storage and maintenance is handled by the U.S. Department of Energy, and more specifically by its three main national laboratories: Livermore National Laboratory, our Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Sandia National Laboratories. So, among other things....
He leaned over to Ruthra and said in a whisper:
– …I was part of a program to study the effects of a nuclear explosion in a different environment than the Earth. Nobody said anything about it, but the mission was to see what would happen if the explosion occurred in a different physical environment. And later I would learn that NASA had conducted a "bombardment" of the moon. Two vehicles crashed into the Earth's natural satellite at a tremendous speed. It wasn't the first time. I'm surprised you don't know anything about it.
– Why. The dust cloud was studied by two vehicles – the Russian LEND and the American LCROSS probe equipped with spectrometers and infrared cameras. They collected information on the chemical composition of the particles and – most importantly – on the amount of water.
– Yeah, and you know that the experiment cost NASA 80 million dollars, too? Do you think the main goal is to understand whether there are ice crystals under the surface of the Earth's satellite? And if there are, then in the future to build inhabited scientific stations or even whole settlements on the Moon? Doesn't it seem to you that this is a war, and these very inhabited scientific stations and whole settlements already exist?
– Well, I don't know what to say. Aren't there any spies among your acquaintances? You can't hide everything, can you?
– As in Russia, and everywhere else, here you cannot hold a position like mine without approval, or rather, scientifically speaking, some integration into this very intelligence community.
– And which one are you in…
– There are many of them, none in particular. Do you have any idea of their structure?
– I have no idea.
– The United States Intelligence Community is a collective term for 17 separate U.S. government agencies. I'm going to educate you a little bit on the subject. I am sure if we cooperate, you will need information about them. The Director of the U.S. Intelligence Community is the head of the government apparatus for coordinating the work of all U.S. intelligence agencies, he is responsible for the work of the intelligence community to the President of the United States. By the way, they have a budget of $43.5 billion.
– Interesting things you say.
– If you're not too busy, we can have a chat in your spare time.
– I will. I will also tell you about scientific work together with specialists from the "zone".
– Fifty-one?
– Yeah. (chuckles)
Charles smiled, nodding as a sign that he understood. They stood up, said their goodbyes, and separated. At the gatehouse, Rutra and his companions were waited for by a lab employee who escorted them to the reception center. Rutra settled in, checked the program through the briefcase, then contacted Isa. After going through a procedure that had become routine, he heard the voice of the computer in his head.
– Good afternoon. How are you?
– I need information on the director of Los Alamos National Laboratory.
– Which one?
– His connection to an intelligence community unit.
– I don't have that information in me.
– Why is that?
– It's not my field.
– Whose is it?
– Yours.
– Stop "showing off", if I ask, I don't know.
– The information's in your department's cell block, I need access. You can give it to me.
– Uh-oh, I forgot. Okay, thank you.
Rutra contacted the Zero Center through the briefcase and requested information about these intelligence communities, who was in charge of what. It was night in Russia, and the Zero operative on duty had dumped everything at once, unprocessed, something Rutra already knew, but it didn't hurt to refresh his memory. There was a lot of detailed information in the message, with order numbers, names, ranks, service records of important officers and service chiefs, and operations. He didn't find anything particularly new, but still, after a brief analysis, he singled out information that was now worth looking at from a different angle.
The U.S. CIA is the primary political intelligence service of the U.S. government, independent of other ministries and agencies. According to Executive Order No. 12333, the U.S. Intelligence Community has six primary purposes, and the most specific of these, which all intelligence agencies of the world have faced willy-nilly, is special events (paragraph 4). This item is defined as activities conducted in support of U.S. foreign policy objectives abroad that are planned and executed where "the role of the United States Government is not apparent or publicly recognized."
The U.S. Intelligence Community is an administrative, not an intelligence structure.
It includes:
1. U.S. CIA;
2. The U.S. Department of State, specifically the State Department's Information Office;
3. the U.S. Department of the Treasury, specifically the Office of Intelligence and Counterterrorism;
4. U.S. Department of Defense, namely the National Security Agency; the Office of Space Intelligence and Mapping; and the Office of Satellite DER;
5. U.S. Department of Energy, specifically the Office of Nuclear Intelligence and Security;
6. Ministry of Internal Security, namely the Information and Analytical Department.
7. U.S. Department of Justice, viz: U.S. FBI; U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury and the U.S. Department of Justice have a special place. Rutra was interested in why and for what purpose the laboratory director was recruited. To do this, it was necessary to find out – who in the intelligence community recruited him? Who needed him so badly that all legal methods were insufficient? To do so, he analyzed his unspoken record. Although he was not military, he had been assigned to military installations at various times.
The most interesting thing about his assignment was this. On behalf of a certain WWW center, he had to check and detect the existence of unidentified signals affecting the operation of equipment and the psyche of the employees of these facilities. Rutra had seen this abbreviation before, in the request it was listed as "control and surveillance center". What was interesting was the list of these facilities. Rutra decided to analyze them and try to link them by a common criterion. These were the 10 most secret military bases in the United States. Rutra requested information on them, which was especially secret, went through closed, not included in the official reports of the military channels, and found a strange pattern, from which he concluded the reason for his assignment. The classified reports showed that military bases and facilities, especially classified ones, were some of the most frequently visited UFO sites. Ruthra decided to go through them list by list and try to figure out what they had in common.
1. HAARP is an American research project to study the ionosphere and the aurora borealis by high-frequency exposure. It is one of the most controversial and mysterious military projects in modern history.
There are quite a few conspiracy theories surrounding HAARP. They were not unfounded, in fact the "High Frequency Aurora Aurora Research Program" is not a purely scientific project. The HAARP facility in Gakona is used to study electromagnetic "mind control" techniques, it is also a test site for geoengineering technologies.
2. Dugway Proving Ground military base is where chemical weapons are tested. Since the 1950s, it has been the site for testing secret airplanes, beam, chemical and biological weapons, and many other serious things.
3. Cheyenne Mountain is the site of the underground NORAD (North American Joint Space Defense Command) complex, where Rutra has already visited. With monolithic monitors operating around the clock, employees have constant access to essential information, including the whereabouts of the president and vice president of the United States.
4. The complex at Raven Rock Mountain is a bunker built in case of World War III. Another place where Rutra has already been. The alternate command center at Raven Rock Mountain is SiteR, the place from which the United States Armed Forces would issue orders should World War III (or nuclear war) break out. The bunker is designed to be a safe place to live for 30 days, just like the NORAD complex, after an atomic explosion.
The alternative command center in Raven Rock Mountain is connected to the suburban residence of the US President at Camp David by a ten-kilometer tunnel. It was also worth noting that cell phones and GPS devices do not work near SiteR. The military uses a blocking mechanism that prevents people from making calls and coordinating on the ground.
5. Area 51 is Groom Lake; the place where Rutra conducted his search. To most, this is one of the most mysterious military sites in America. Many realistically believed that this was where the material remains of the crash of an unidentified flying object, near Roswell, New Mexico, said to have occurred in July 1947, were stored.
There were many questions about this zone; if the UFO version was to be believed, then it appeared that the United States authorities were using the Zone-51 military base to conduct high-tech research, which included alien experiments (crossbreeding humans with aliens), and reverse engineering of alien ships, a sample of which had fallen into their hands after the Roswell incident, quantum teleportation, creation of advanced artificial intelligence, efficient propulsion systems, and time travel.
