The Gamma Option

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The U.S.S. Indianapolis was sailing to her death. Captain Charles Butler McVay III entered the cramped communications room and spoke to the ship’s chief radioman only after making sure the door was sealed behind him.

“Anything, mister?”

“Negative, sir. No contact.”

“Damn,” McVay muttered, certain this time the ensign had caught the edge in his voice.

He had come down personally once more in the hope some word had come in — something, anything, pertaining to the status of what still remained in the Indy’s number three cargo hold. Three days before she had dropped the contents of cargo holds one and two on the island of Tinian. Ten days from San Francisco at top speed had got her there right on schedule, in spite of a stop at Pearl Harbor that had seen her take on numerous passengers with a keen interest in her journey.

All of them knew that contained within the Indianapolis’s storage holds one and two were the unassembled parts for two atomic bombs. None of them knew about the contents of storage hold number three.

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