Crowdsourcing the Timeline

[Mark Skarr]

I was under the impression that the point of fusion technology was making this sort of bang impossible.

That's the theory.  However, as it's a catalyzed fusion reaction, and that catalyst is based off of a metahuman power, destabilize the metahuman power (say, Neutralize with Derange) and you have the makings of a nice catastrophe.  Something the U.N. will be quite interested in learning about so they can try to shield their reactors from it.

'Undetected' metahumans, or for that matter, civilian contractors who just happen to be in the area. Depending on the country, the Police are a civil, not a military force. I'm sure there's a loophole for them to politely abuse.

Bob covered this in a side bar in IST:

The Edicts of 1982 banned nationalized super military forces. It did not force civil servants who happened to be metahumans to lose their jobs, unless the job was designated as a military specialty. In the United States, state National Guard units and the Coast Guard both qualify under that definition. Police functions, though, are a special case. A national police force qualifies as a military operation under the Edicts; thus Britain has no supers in the CID, nor can any Canadian super publicly operate as a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. In general, the U.N. looks upon metahuman policemen as metahuman soldiers.

The US police force is different.  However, the Canadian point is that the U.N., by forcing Metahumans, who are willing volunteers, out of a certain job market, is committing discrimination based on genetic disposition.