ONCE AN ENEMYCHAPTER FOURTommie Guthrie’s Baseball Game explained: A player selects any three major leaguers from either league.The bet, usually at 2-1 odds, is that they will not get six total hits between them. Tommy has modernized the game to take advantage of the spotty reporting during the war years to include both past games, using the Sporting News as reference and future games that have as yet to be played. Captain Rambeck leans on his former staffers in San Francisco to mail up a copy of the paper with as much regularity as possible. This bet was reportedly the one that Jimmy ‘The Greek’ Snyder made a small fortune with before the IRS caught up to him in the sixties. It seems that Beth also has an interest in the game, taking on a consulting position to lobby for the players she considers to have talent ‘other than statistics’. Captain Rambeck gives an update on the war in the South Pacific and his accounting of the number of casualties to date.Oppenheimer and Leslie Groves are at odds over the testing date for the weapon, known as the device, that could ignite atmosphere combustion, causing, according to Oppie, “the destruction of our planet, not just some of its inhabitants.” Captain Tagami questions Nobou on the possibility of a final sortie using the two remaining thermite bombs at night, under the cover of darkness. Oppenheimer slips in a mention of Executive Order #9066, FDR’s Japanese relocation edict that would be another lasting ethical, moral, military and national security debate that would linger for the next half century. He delivers the news to Groves, that their testing of the device is years away from completion. We end the chapter watching Nobou menacingly, but with great focus, add another buffing swipe to his katana. Visit us on Facebook and leave a comment!!

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