Chapter Seventeen
Wednesday, October 22
1:15 PM
Omega Mountain Nuclear Storage Facility
Groom Lake Air Force Auxiliary Station
Hours after leaving the nuclear test tunnels behind, Mike Waterloo ducked out of the twin-engine plane that had flown him across Nellis restricted air space. Holding his black satchel containing a barcode reader and portable computer, he scanned the runway for his security escort.
The aircraft had parked at a remote terminus of the desert airstrip, a mile from five ominous hangars clustered at the end of the dry lake bed bordered by rugged mountains. Three huge C-141 Starlifter transport planes sat next to the hangars. The Groom Lake Auxiliary Station provided temporary storage for decommissioned nuclear weapons … as well as whatever else the government had h
