The is not a bomb. That’s the problem.
Without spoiling the full resolution (reserved for the serialized release of S.T.I.C.K.: The Archive of Warm Things ), the confrontation ends not with a gunshot or an explosion, but with a question. S.T.I.C.K -Ch.1- -Nuclear Samovar-
Why a samovar? Because the lead engineer, Dr. Irina Pavlovna Turov, was a stubborn patriot with a sense of irony. “If the Americans want to find our secrets,” she said, “let them search every tea house from Vladivostok to Prague.” The is not a bomb