Oh, well. I guess, now that we had to spent some narrative time on a ranch in effing Kansas – in a naval thriller – I guess the author is not interested in the nuclear forensics.

The USA has special planes to collect airborne radioactive material, not that they would really need them, what with all the fallout on the remaining ships. I am pretty sure that they could have worked out, mostly by isotope ratios, where the bomb was from. From that, maybe from the bhangmeters on the GPS satellites, and from the position and amount of damage on the surviving ships they could have worked out the yield of the bomb. If that doesn’t match the ones on board, well, that would be another reason to search for a bomber.

Oh, also, in this book there are no civilian experts. Journalists are all just taking the pentagon at their word. Nobody seems to have worked out on their own that their is something fishy about the uncommanded explosion theory.