What Would Atlas Do?
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I'm sincerely impressed.

If you knew the answer, then I assume that you're already familiar with Dr. Floyd Ferris, the State Science Institute, and the Thompson Harmonizer. Maybe you can pass that information on to my idiot sister.

Or if you got here by guessing, then you can just point my sister to this webpage and tell her that she has some reading to do.

Remember that the book was published in 1957, when the Thompson Harmonizer was still in the earliest stages of planning. So the scene where the Harmonizer is activated and destroys everything in a 200-mile radius should be taken as a warning, not a literal history.