Efforts to preserve the scene at Edgware Road for forensic examination were hampered by police conducting a controlled explosion. ibid.
Precisely what caused the explosions on July 7th is a question that has never been properly answered. Even after the explosion on the bus, officials and the media were saying that power surges had caused blasts or explosions at up to eight tube stations. They were still talking about six explosions at midday when Tony Blair made his first statement. ibid.
Witnesses at all three locations described feelings of electrocution and an explosion that sounded like a power surge. ibid.
The back of the top deck of the bus was completely destroyed and the roof was ripped off. But pictures taken just after the explosion show passengers on the top deck largely unharmed. ibid.
A witness from the top deck of the bus interviewed by the Daily Mail said that she saw police putting up tape to block off the street before the explosion happened. ibid.
These bombs do not terrify us, they empower us. They empower us to send you something that is truly terrifying – the full weight of the United States’ military. Sicario: Soldado 2017 starring Benicio del Toro & Josh Brolin & Isabela Moner & Jeffrey Donovan & Manuel Garcia-Rulfo & Catherine Keener & Matthew Modine & Shea Whigham et al, director Stefano Sollima, secretary of defense press conference message to terrorists
This is an atomic testing ground. The bomb’s scheduled to go off in the morning. Split Second 1953 starring Stephen McNally & Alexis Smith & Jan Sterling & Keith Andes & Arthur Hunnicut & Paul Kelly & Robert Paige & Richard Egan & Frank de Kova et al, director Dick Powell, opening scene
Lost Hope City. ibid. site of atomic test
Attention, all personnel – the time of the explosion has been moved up from 06.00 hours to 05.00 hours. ibid. army announcer
The year is 1913. In Britain women are burning buildings and planting bombs: and all this for something that in a hundred years time will completely take for granted a woman’s right to vote. Suffragettes with Lucy Worsley, BBC 2018
Resorting to outrageous criminal acts, fighting a decade-long campaign of escalating violence. ibid.
Milan: The massacres … where Italy lost its innocence … The start of what would become known as the Years of Lead. Years of Lead: An Italian Conspiracy, Youtube 52.11, 2022
Friday, December 12th 1969: At 4.37 p.m. a bomb devastated the central hall of the National Agrarian Bank, the Piazza Fontana. ibid.
Then within the hour four further bombs went off in Milan and Rome. ibid.
The result of a conspiracy and the template for the wave of terrorist attacks to come. ibid.
The ‘black lead’ was the one that led to the far right. ibid.
Gladio, the double-edge sword: one of the best kept secrets of the post-war period. The codename for the secret army intended to lead the resistance against any potential Soviet invasion. ibid.
July 1970: A bomb on a train in Calabria. 6 dead, 50 injured. ibid.
May 1973: A grenade outside the Milan Prefecture. 4 dead, 52 injured. ibid.
1974: A bomb on the Italicus train between Rome and Brennero. 12 dead, 44 injured. ibid.
Secret protection ensured the impunity of the true perpetrators of this terrorist plot: a small fascist group called Ordine Nuovo (New Order), a veritable nerve centre of black terrorism. ibid.
‘A hidden structure linked to the Italian and American secret services.’ ibid. convicted bomber
Bologna railway station, Saturday August 2nd 1980: 85 dead, more than 200 injured. ibid.
If the instigators of the massacre were never discovered, it is undoubtedly thanks to the manoeuvres of this man, Licio Gelli … the venerable master of a Masonic lodge known as Propaganda Due, or P2. ibid.
Gelli emerged from the shadows in 1981 during investigations into the collapse of a bank, implicating the Mafia, the Vatican’s banker and P2. ibid.
It was the biggest mass murder in Britain or Ireland. 33 people died: why has nobody ever been charged? First Tuesday: Hidden Hand: The Forgotten Massacre, RTE/Yorkshire TV 1993
Ask about the Dublin and Monaghan bombs of May 1974 and the response will be hazy. It was the worst atrocity of the troubles yet it’s almost been forgotten. ibid.
A terrorist atrocity forgotten by most yet unique among the history of the Anglo-Irish conflict. ibid.
26 were killed in Dublin, 253 injured. ibid.
All eight [suspects] were members of the Ulster Volunteer Force, a loyalist terrorist force. ibid.
‘I didn’t think at the time and I don’t think now that any loyalist group could have done this on their own in 1974.’ ibid. investigating rozzer
In December 1972 two car bombs exploded in Dublin killing two people. ibid.
Saturday, July 31st 1971: A person or persons unknown travelled to south-west London carrying a bomb. The target was the home of Mr John Davies, then the minister for Trade & Industry. The bomb was wrapped like a present in gold and blue paper and done up with a rosette and ribbon. It was to be the second to last in a series of 25 political bombings by the revolutionary group which called itself the Angry Brigade. World in Action: The Angry Brigade, ITV 1972
England’s first home-grown guerrilla movement. ibid.
1968 was the revolutionary year which forged the politics of the Angry Brigade. ibid.
I have been asked whether in the years to come it will be possible to kill forty million American people by the use of atomic bombs in a single night. I’m afraid the answer to that question is yes. To End All War: Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb, Oppenheimer, Sky 2023
Robert Oppenheimer was the father of the atomic bomb. ibid. dude
This cultured non-violent man was responsible for birthing the most violent weapon in human history. ibid.
And they were led by this very enigmatic strange bright-blue-eyed young man who they all admired. ibid.
We did think about whether its destructiveness, its danger, could be vividly demonstrated over a barren and uninhabited target. And we were very doubtful of that. ibid. Oppenheimer
He becomes a rock star. He’s the oracle of American science. ibid. author
After the security trial Oppenheimer was never the same man again. He was a hollow man after that. ibid.
Nova had asked this 20-year-old chemistry student at a famous university in Boston to attempt the design. Nova: The Plutonium Connection, PBS 1975
Steal the material, make an atom bomb, and you’d have a blackmail weapon no government could afford to ignore. ibid.
Buried in the stacks of any good science library in the country and probably in the world is a vast amount of information needed for designing a bomb. ibid.
March 29th 1951: A bomb might be about to go off. Not for 3 minutes but for 16 years … Between November 1940 and January 1957 that’s exactly what the fine people of New York had to live with. 32 bombs, 22 explosions, all over the city. Tick-tocks left like Easter eggs. Scary Tales of New York s1e5: The Mad Bomber
The bomber pens dozens of letters, many of them to the press. ibid.
‘I knew the game was up. They asked me all sorts of questions … FP stands for fair play.’ ibid. George Metesky
Atlanta, Georgia, July 27th 1996, 26th Olympic Games: There is a bomb in Centennial Park. You have 30 minutes. Catching Killers s3e3: Manhunt: The Olympic Park Bomber, 911 call, Netflix 2023
One of the longest manhunts in American history. ibid. rozzer
A name that was identified as a suspect was a security guard, Richard Jewell. He was the one that finds the device and finds help … He wasn’t involved with it. ibid.
We had the Olympic Park bombing, the Sandy Springs abortion bombing, the Otherside Lounge bombing … ibid. FBI dude
At last we had a name. We knew where to go. ibid.
The physicists who participated in forging the most formidible and dangerous weapon of all time are harrassed by an equal feeling of responsibility not to say guilt. Einstein and the Bomb, Netflix 2024
Had I known that the Germans would not succeed in producing an atomic bomb, I would not have taken part in opening that Pandora’s Box. ibid.
The present state of affairs in Germany is a state of psychic distemper in the masses. ibid.
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. ibid.
The most beautiful thing you can experience is the mysterious. ibid.
After his speech Einstein sails to the United States. He will never see Europe again. ibid. caption
The Allies enter the race to create the first atomic bomb with the top secret Manhattan Project. ibid.
The war is won. The peace is not. ibid. Einstein
How long shall we tolerate politicians hungry for power trying to gain political advantage in such a way. ibid.
The whole hearing took a month. Oppenheimer 2023 ***** starring Cillian Murphy & Emily Blunt & Matt Damon & Robert Downey junior & Florence Pugh & Josh Hartnett & Casey Affleck & Rami Malek & Kenneth Branagh & Dylon Arnold et al, director Christopher Nolan, Admiral
Who’d want to justify their whole life? ibid. hearing
Happy? No. I was homesick, emotionally immature … troubled by visions of a hidden universe. ibid. Oppenheimer
What do you know about quantum physics? ibid.