Unnamed U.S. Gov't Agent

A U.S. Government Agent was assigned to investigate two physicists as part of an ongoing probe into the failure of a number of undergound nuclear tests.

This problem was being kept as the utmost secret from the Soviet Union and more importantly from congress. Any and all anomalies related to radiation were reviewed resulting in many man-hours and much computer time being expended. For instance, all nuclear reactors east of the Mississippi River experienced a simultaneous six second "hiccup". As well, a number of high energy physics experiments went awry. Also, cases of disappointingly ineffective radiation cancer treatments were investigated.

Many of these events were localized and were plotted on a map. This gave the agency an idea where it was centered. Two physicists in this area were known to have vacationed in Las Vegas when a test in Nellis Air Force Base was late going off. The Agent was assigned to investigate Farmer and Jeter.