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It didn't take you to long to retrieve the materials that Jacob had asked for, and within a few hours he returned with what looked like a duffle bag and a look of consternation, "Ok so I think... I think this will work." he says placing the duffle bag down, "But it's by and far the most janky explosive I've ever made. Which may not and should not be reassuring. Good news is this is a test model we can blow up to see how big the boom is, we'll just wire some actually explosives with it because I'm pretty sure I fucked up the triggering mechanism."
You back away slowly from it as he says that and he just laughs, "I mean as in like it won't fire at all." you give him a cautious nod, "Alright, well then lets go test it."
He nods hefting the thing back up with great effort before putting it down gently, "Fuck this shit I'm getting power armor, you should to you know.. because of the rads and all that."
You nod at this, sound suggestion, and head to the armory to pick up some power Armor. The person on quartermaster duty raises an eyebrow and you tell him it's for an exercise and he shrugs and hands you the papers which you sign.
Returning to Jacob who is also now in Power armor and has the duffle bag on his back you head out into the most secluded part of the wastes that you can away from the Navarro base and civilization in general.
Jacob sets it down and pulls out a spade digging a hole for it leaving the top exposes and placing some c4 and a plasma grenade around it before planting a wire and running a spool for quite some distance away from the detonation site.
You run the wire for about a mile and a half before setting up behind your car as Jacob pulls out a detonator, "You ready to see a big fucking boom? Just don't directly observe it or you'll go blind give it like a couple of seconds form the sonic boom."
You look at him with growing concern, "Jacob, what would you say the explosive rating of this land mine is?"
He sat and looked up for a moment, "Hmmm, somewhere between 10 and 20 tons of tnt" Your eyes go wide, "What the hell?" was all you could say, and he shrugged, "Look I'm working with imprecise equipment and some very temperamental equations, I took us well beyond the recommended safety distance for the maximum margin of error that I had, you know just in case." He held up the detonator, "Now lets see just exactly how big this boom is."
Before you could regret your decision any further he clicked the button and a blinding light cooked off in the distance as a mushroom cloud rose up and the shockwave came. You looked over and it was a pretty damn big mushroom cloud, but considering you only heard the boom and weren't rocked by it and didn't feel the heat of it it's probably that his estimate was likely accurate.
Still it was an awe inspiring sight, you'd heard of soldiers using mininukes before in desperate situations like the battle of Navarro and this was well bigger than that, you pull out the binoculars.
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