North Carolina: one of the bombs parachuted into a tree and the other landed in a farmer’s field. Both bombs had passed through five of the six steps to detonate them. Rich Hall’s Red Menace, BBC 2019
At 11.45 a.m. on the 27th August 1979 a bomb explodes on a small fishing boat in Donegal Bay, County Sligo. Lord Louis Mountbatten is killed. It sends ripples of shock, anger and grief across the globe. The Murder of Lord Mountbatten, Channel 5 2021
The small boat now has fifty pounds of gelignite on board, seventeen inches long, three inches wide and wrapped in plastic. ibid.
For the first time American pilots were going to drop bombs on North Vietnam. Ken Burns & Lynn Novick, The Vietnam War III: The River Styx (January 1964 – December 1965), PBS 2017
On March 2nd 1965 the United States began a systematic bombardment of targets in North Vietnam codenamed Operation Rolling Thunder. ibid.
We dropped more bombs on North Vietnam and South Vietnam than we dropped on Germany during the whole Second World War. What else can you bomb? Who else can you kill? Robert Kennedy
In all 7,500,000 tons of bombs fell on Vietnam, three times the total bomb tonnage that had fallen in World War II. Mark Daniels, Enemy Image, 2005
During the Vietnam War an incredible seven million tons of bombs were dropped on Indo-China. Saul David, Bullets, Boots and Bandages: How to Really Win at War III: Raising Arms, BBC 2012
This hydrogen bomb was the most powerful weapon ever built by man ... The world was on a potentially fatal collision course. Secrets of War s1e19: Cold War: The Strangelove Factor
Mutual distrust grew; relations between the United States and the Soviet Union rapidly deteriorated. ibid.
By 1962 the Russians had a problem: the United States had a 17 to 1 superiority in nuclear missiles and warheads. ibid.
We were secret mining their harbours, we had command of their skies, but still the bomb [Enola Gay] dropped. Alfred McCormack, Military Intelligence Director
It was a nice day. I was playing outdoors when I saw a sudden flash. Fire broke out everywhere. Our house and gate were burned down before I knew it. Then we went under a bridge. There were many people there dying from burns. When I came back Daddy was dead. A few days later Mummy died too. Hiroshima child
The whole city was on fire. Their faces were so badly burned it was impossible to tell if they were men or women. Hiroshima survivor
I think it is well also for the man in the street to realise that there is no power on earth than can protect him from being bombed. Whatever people may tell him, the bomber will always get through. The only defence is in offence, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly than the enemy if you want to save yourselves. Stanley Baldwin, address House of Commons 10th November 1932
In November 1957 Britain exploded its first mega-ton hydrogen bomb, over one hundred times more powerful than the one dropped over Hiroshima. This is the story of an extraordinary scientific project which against almost insuperable odds made Britain a nuclear superpower. Britain’s Nuclear Bomb: The Inside Story, BBC 2017
‘A bomb came loose whilst the aircraft was flying over Dorking.’ ibid. Scientist
That summer in 1976 – 36 bombs exploded in Cleveland. Kill the Irishman 2011 starring Ray Stevenson & Val Kilmer & Christopher Walken & Linda Cardellini & Marcus Thomas & Vinnie Jones & Tony Lo Bianco & Paul Sorvino & Laura Ramsey & Mike Starr & Bob Gunton et al, director Jonathan Hensleigh
Cleveland was rapidly becoming the bombing capital of the world. The following year – 1977 – 37 explosions rocked the city and surrounding area. Mobsters: Danny Greene, Biography 2010
Dirty Bomb: and the media took the bait. They portrayed the dirty bomb as an extraordinary weapon that could kill thousands of people. Adam Curtis, The Power of Nightmares III: The Shadows in the Cave, BBC 2004
A weapon of mass destruction. In World War II the allies and the Nazis raced to build the world’s first nuclear warhead … Were the Nazis able to combine their knowledge and their uranium stockpile to build an atomic bomb? Conspiracies Decoded s1e3: Nazi Doomsday Project, Discovery 2022
And a bizarre bank robbery with a time bomb ticking down to zero … Brian Wells [victim] walked out of the bank with only a fraction of the amount of money he demanded … The bomb detonated and Brian Wells died instantly. Unexplained with William Shatner s2e8: Outrageous Robberies, History 2022
May 22nd 2017: A British-born terrorist is about to detonate a suicide bomb at a pop concert killing 22 people and injuring more than 1,000 others. It was an attack that shocked our nation. Worlds Collide: The Manchester Bombing, ITV 2022
2012: Salman Abedi remains in Libya a year before returning to Manchester. ibid.
Inside the city room a homemade suicide bomb has been detonated packed with thousands of nuts and bolts. Worlds Collide: The Manchester Bombing II
7/7: Blair initially said that any such enquiry would be a ludicrous diversion in the struggle against terrorism. 7/7: Seeds of Destruction, Vimeo 2:27:25
Accounts of what happened on July 7th are contrasting and varied. Nothing we’ve been officially told makes any sense. ibid.
The four British Muslim men allegedly responsible may have themselves been victims of a much larger conspiracy. ibid.
What is supported by solid evidence is that history has shown that western governments have made a consistent policy of engaging in covert operations including False Flag terrorist attacks. ibid.
Arbenz was a popular president elected on a platform of reforming the land ownership to help the largely peasant population of Guatemala. ibid.
Declassified documents show that Mongoose was not just an operation to kill Castro but involved a series of schemes designed to cause instability in Cuba. ibid.
‘We must prepare something like a guerrilla network which could then be operated in case of an invasion, so the primary thinking for creating such a unit was we must have the guerrilla unit ready in case of occupation.’ ibid. Daniele Ganser
The man actually responsible for the Petiano bombing was Vincenzo Cinciguerra. He was a member of right-wing terrorist groups … Once his guilt had been established and he was no longer protected by the security services, Cinciguerra became very candid about how Gladio operated. ibid.
This strategic relationship between NATO, neo-fascist terrorist groups and the CIA culminated in an attack on Bologna train station in August 1990: eighteen kilos of military plastic explosive were detonated in a second-class waiting room. Over eighty people were killed and hundreds injured. ibid.
A series of trials ensued in Italy. It wasn’t until 1995, 15 years after the bombing, that a conclusive verdict was reached. 2 members of a neo-fascist group were convicted of the [Bologna] bombing. Also convicted for diverting the investigation were 2 Italian intelligence agents who were members of the P2 Masonic lodge. The grandmaster of that lodge, Licio Gelli, was also convicted for conspiring to divert the investigation. It became clear that P2 was not just a Masonic Order but a CIA-funded parallel government. The list of members of the lodge was found in a raid on Licio Gelli’s house in 1981. Among the 962 names were those of the heads of all 3 Intelligence Services, 48 MPs, industrialists, bankers, media moguls, journalists, civil servants, judges, military officials, and Silvio Berlusconi. ibid.
The billions of dollars would eventually pay off. The Soviets withdrew from Afghanistan, their system rotting and bankrupt. The intelligence alliance had succeeded and had a new proxy force for covert operations. ibid.
Initial reports have the men taking the 7.48 train to London … The 7.48 train would not have got the four to London in time to catch the tube trains they supposedly bombed. ibid.
The 7.40 train was cancelled that morning. ibid.
In the frames from Woodall motorway services Shehzad Tanweer is clearly shown wearing white trousers. But in the pictures of the four men entering Luton station, Tanweer’s trousers are black. ibid.
Exactly what happened to the tube trains on the morning of July 7th isn’t at all clear. The number of explosions, where and when they took place and what caused them are all disputed with official sources often contradicting each other. ibid.
Throughout the morning the BBC and other major media were quoting officials saying there were far more than just four explosions. ibid.
It is not exactly clear where in London’s tube network the explosions occurred that morning, and which direction the trains were heading in when the explosions hit them. ibid.
Train 311 was northbound on the Piccadilly Line, the direction originally given by TFL, but impossible for a suicide bomber travelling from King’s Cross. ibid.
Exactly where in the carriages the explosions took place is difficult to establish … The explosion being under the train is also indicated by this Sky News interview with another survivor from Aldgate … There are similar accounts from Edgware Road. ibid.