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He yelled orders a jumble of code letters and numbers and things began going out. Most of them blew up in space. Then the Yo-Yo blew up, very quietly, as things do where there is no air to carry shock- and sound-waves, but very brilliantly. There was brief daylight all over the night side of the planet. "That was our planetbuster," Larch said. "I don't know what we'll use on Dunnan."
"All yours, Sharll," he told Renner. "Eight hours to atmosphere," Renner said. "That's if we don't have to waste a lot of time shooting up Junior, there." Vann Larch was looking at the moon in the six hundred power screen. "I don't see anything to shoot. Five hundred miles; one planetbuster, or four or five thermonuclears," he said. It wasn't right, Trask thought indignantly.
There had been two hellburners; the cities on which they had fallen were still-smoking pits literally burned into the ground and the bedrock below, at the center of five hundred mile radii of slag and lava and scorched earth and burned forests. There had been a planetbuster; it had started a major earthquake. And half a dozen thermonuclears.
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