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Old 2010-06-30, 19:06   Link #12318
Oliver
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Originally Posted by Leafsnail View Post
Uh, how would Eva, say, sell off her father's book collection in that case?
By finding it in the Kuwadorian, which is what the text says pretty explicitly.

There may well be some military past for the island, mind you, but definitely not nuclear testing ground -- Japan has the capability to produce nuclear weapons on short notice but no actual weapons. I said "TNT equivalent" because explosives like, say, RDX, also have it, and there's no telling which explosive it could possibly be, but there are tables for TNT equivalent.
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