Teller, Bates and Anderson sat to one side at a second table with Robert Gaul, the United States Ambassador to the United Nations. From the seating arrangement, there was no doubt in anyone's mind that science was taking a back seat to politics. Teller, Bates and Anderson swapped hand written notes with each other, reflecting on what they thought as they looked out across the sea of delegates from over two hundred member states and territories. Teller felt distinctly out of place, but he had the outermost seat, and figured the pecking order was quite appropriate in his case. If he'd had his way, he'd have watched the whole debate from back at the NASA trailer. Initially, there had been some resistance to meeting in the General Assembly building as the top corner at the rear was missing, dragged off into a slow orbit by the anomaly. The actual segment wasn't that large, only about thirty feet or so in length and less than fifteen feet wide, but it kept the anomaly rooted firmly in the minds of the delegates.
