 Physicist Wade Ormont has serendipitously stumbled on a hitherto unsuspected variety of nuclear fission involving iron that could "blow the entire crust [of the world] off with one big "poof"," a discovery he agonizes on whether to report.There is no danger of any other researcher beating him to the punch, as the find was accidental, based on a quirk of physics to which no current theory points, and is unlikely to be arrived at independently by someone else.Breaking the news would certainly make his reputation, even if, as he is sure would be the case, the government would attempt to suppress it.