Nova Sylva wrote:OS, how would you or Sylva figure out that Muro was doing nuclear research again? The first thing that comes to mind is satellites but you know much more about those than I do.
There's probably a few different ways that it'd come to the OS's attention. One being the OS Intelligence Community monitoring the international Plutonium and Uranium markets as to keep tabs on who might be building weapons or reactors. The second is that there are sensor packages for use aboard UAVs (mainly large ones such as the RQ-4, the RQ-170, and the RQ-180) that detect radiation. The third being satellites, of course. The fourth being the fact that I'm spying on everybody (*cough*NSA*cough*).
So, here'd basically be the way that the OS figures it out. OS Intelligence Community comes across Muro or his front companies buying large amounts of Weapons-grade material either legally or through the Black Market. It'd be sent up the chain and a UAV would do an overflight using the "Peep" Method (which is basically an RQ-4, RQ-170, or RQ-180 operating in International Airspace at extremely high altitudes and using the curvature of the Earth and High Powered Sensors to look into Muro's territory).