international-coordination

In this chapter, Raymond Dyer learns that his microplanet proposal has gained high-level approval and is now a top-security international project led by the Council, with the U.S. CIM in charge. The operation will be run as a military experiment using volunteers to test strategies against the global computer system, with Dyer being asked to lead the computer science team on-site at the Icarus C space colony. The chapter explores the tension between secrecy, the risks involved, and the rapid mobilization of resources to implement the plan.