When Barbicane refuses, Nicholl goes to Washington, D.C. Word rapidly spreads of Barbicane's construction of a "super-rocket," horrifying prominent metallurgist Stuyvesant Nicholl, a serious, religious man, who challenges Barbicane to a duel. Numerous wealthy businessmen in the club, including Josef Cartier, author Jules Verne, banker Morgana and scientist Aldo Von Metz, agree to support Barbicane's fantastic project. In 1868 America, munitions mogul and inventor Victor Barbicane calls a meeting of the International Armaments Club at his sprawling mansion, Victory, to inform them of his development of an extremely powerful explosive, "Power X." Barbicane explains that a rocket carrying Power X could destroy an entire city and, because of its dangerous properties, proposes building a great rocket to travel to the moon where he will test the abilities of Power X.
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