Overview
The Fort Drum nuclear device is the nuclear weapon at the center of the domestic nuclear deterrent plan in Burn Zone.
Role
Lorianna Blackstone frames the plan as a conspiracy to steal a nuclear device from Fort Drum. Ben Auerbach says a device can go missing because the conspirators have sympathizers, and the meeting discusses using a twenty-megaton device inside a Coalition landing city.
Kelly Pearson proposes moving the device through food-shipment logistics controlled by the War Economy Board. The cover uses banana shipments and Richmond storeyards so that radiation scans look less suspicious while the weapon is transported toward the landing city.
The device is the material link between the Brunn meeting and the Boston nuclear detonation. After sentencing, Ray Bishop says three additional men helped Auerbach get the warhead onto a semi and are still being pursued.