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"   &amp;quot;Follow The Leader,&amp;quot; the penultimate episode before Lost&amp;#039;s fifth season finale, began to move all the pawns into their proper positions for next week&amp;#039;s two-hour checkmate. While &amp;quot;Leader&amp;quot; was chock full of action, it was a little light on the science side. But the episode did reveal one big piece of information: Jughead, the hydrogen bomb that&amp;#039;s supposedly going to save the island, is stored directly under the Dharma village.   Back in this season&amp;#039;s third episode, &amp;quot;Jughead,&amp;quot;, Daniel Faraday instructed Ellie (who we now know is his mother!) and the rest of Others to bury the bomb &amp;quot;carefully.&amp;quot; From what we saw last night, the Others interpreted those directions very loosely. The bomb wasn&amp;#039;t buried so much as it was stored in the labyrinth of tunnels beneath the island. And it definitely wasn&amp;#039;t encased in lead or a cement housing in order to contain any of radiation that the bomb could possibly be leaking.   One can only wonder if this is why, a few decades down the line, women on the island start to encounter problems during pregnancy, eventually leading to the deaths of both mother and baby sometime during the second trimester. Nuclear bomb expert Ivan Oelrich, vice president for the strategic security program at the Federation of American Scientists, previously explained to us that without proper burial, the plutonium from the hydrogen bomb could leak into the ground water. Plutonium exposure is obviously not healthy for pregnant women (or anyone else, for that matter), and has been associated with birth defects and stillbirth. We&amp;#039;ve also speculated that the four-toed statue, which has characteristics of Taweret, the Egyptian goddess of maternity and childbirth, may have something to do with the fertility issues\u2014but the Jughead hypothesis provides a different answer more deeply rooted in science.   As far as how the bomb will be used to prevent the catastrophe that is supposedly about to happen at the Swan Station, well, that&amp;#039;s a different story. It is possible to harness the power of a hydrogen bomb to mess-up the electromagnetic field that we know exists under the station, but until next week&amp;#039;s two-hour event, we really can&amp;#039;t do much more than theorize, over-think and wait. \u2014Erin Scottberg   RELATED STORIES \u2022 PLUS: Fringe Gets Burned on Spontaneous Combustion  \u2022 VIEWTOPIA: This Week&amp;#039;s Hot, New DVD Releases  \u2022 EARLIER: PM&amp;#039;s Geeked-Out Summer Movies for 2009  \u2022 DIGITAL HOLLYWOOD: Lost, Fringe and More  \u2022 FOLLOW US: Popular Mechanics is Now on Twitter!  \u2022 FRIEND US: Find PM on Facebook   "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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