Part III, Selenos 8: Chapters 43 - 45 Summary

The President confronts the nine Inner Core members at Camp David. The Inner Core are proud of their accomplishments and are unable to understand the President's gravity as he speaks to them. When he tells them that the three Soviet lunar probes the colonists had shot down were manned, the Inner Core realize that they are responsible for the deaths of nine Soviet cosmonauts. The soviets believe that the downing of their crafts are an act of aggression and will respond appropriately by manning Selenos 8 with soldiers, which is what they have, indeed, done. The President tells the Inner Core they have, in effect, started a war for the moon.

Pitt is taken care of physically, but he has a lead he wants to follow up and by throwing the equivalent of a temper tantrum...