Pure fission experiment successfulRegarding:
Black Beisa working on the development of nuclear weaponryDate: December 5388
Discoverable:
YesLast time Black Beisa's activities were spotted in the Desert Bank, Sato took the blame on what was widely presumed to be a failed launch of earlier models of the Shavit rocket. That was true. What missed the headlines was that rocketry was half of the equation. There's a grant tracing all the way back to
5286 of almost 35B LOD still active today in the maintenance of the country's nuclear energy grid. It was a result of Artistocrat Energetical's winning bid in
5251. Throughout the decades AIG's contracts with the Beiteynuese Government hinted at R&D in nuclear energy, with Black Beisa's elusive signatures signed on most papers. BB has been active on aerospace, missile, navigation and weapons systems of the sort since the Equifund's foundation back in
5227.
In fact, the only time it couldn't avoid the spotlight of media was in
5271, when it brokered a supranational military agreement between a multitude of companies; everybody knew it then, BB stood for "Boss" in R&D. That deal, curiously, was with Kundrati on raw materials and Trigunia on "experiments".
Yesterday afternoon, somewhere in the Desert Bank, the scientist who has come to be known as the one losing his shit after 77 attempts, simply pursed his lips in agony when those neutrons hit Uranium-235's atoms leading to a small scale chain reaction that grappled with critical mass, in a siloed area 157kms to the south.
"Thank you Kundrati", mumbled another. He still thought "barbarically amateur" but had no glasses to throw this time.