Readers who looked close enough probably figured out the source of Weapons of Mass Destruction‘s titular MacGuffin. Hidden in the science facility were two clues.
On the left is the quark structure of an antiproton. On the right is the badge worn by nearly everyone in the science facility.
Now here’s a close up of the screen as Zhou erased the library computer. Recognize that cone shaped thing in the center?
That page was when I really sat up and took notice. It had never occurred to me that someone might try to salvage that monstrous thing, but the implications were immediately disturbing.
I never considered it either until I needed a source for the weapon. However, it actually seems naive to think they would just leave it floating around out there and not do something with it.