Only some government could own such an engine of destruction, and in these disaster-filled times, when men tax their ingenuity to build increasingly powerful aggressive weapons, it was possible that, unknown to the rest of the world, some nation could have been testing such a fearsome machine.
Únicamente un gobierno podía poseer una máquina destructiva semejante. En estos desastrosos tiempos en los que el hombre se esfuerza por aumentar la potencia de las armas de guerra es posible que un Estado trate de construir en secreto un arma semejante.