At that moment, the cylindrical object on the screen had already come through the Teleportation Gate. Its diameter was only slightly smaller than the gate's.
When about three meters of it had emerged, it fell directly to the ground.
"The explosion originated from it, so according to our tests, this should be a thermonuclear hydrogen bomb."
"And considering its size, judging by comparisons with the surrounding objects, its diameter was only around twenty centimeters. So there is only one possibility: whatever intelligent life is on the other side knows exactly when this thing activates, as well as its size."
"Otherwise, it would not have been made in this shape. And it was highly likely that the other side activated it deliberately," the White House chief of staff immediately added.
"Doesn't that mean the enemy can drop nuclear bombs on our heads at any time?" Kamp immediately asked.
"Mr. President, according to our research, if they truly activated it themselves, they should need this ore for positioning. So regardless of what this thing is, our next step must be to tighten control over this ore," the head of Homeland Security immediately said.
Kamp immediately felt a headache coming on. At present, they only had one piece in their hands, while all known quantities of this material worldwide were controlled in Africa. The site where the ore had originally been mined was located in central Africa.
Later, because the implications were too significant, the United States was unable to monopolize all of it. In the end, everyone had no choice but to reach an agreement to keep it all under control in Africa, with no one allowed to mine it.
No one knew what might happen in the future because of this, so that had been the only option at the time.