Alvarez: What are we thinking?
Oppenheim: A bomb, Alvarez, a bomb. ibid.
You’re not just self-important, you’re actually important. ibid. boss to Oppenheimer
Somebody who wanted Robert silenced. ibid. Admiral
A secret laboratory in the middle of nowhere, secure, self-sufficient, equipment, housing, the works, keep everyone there till it’s done … ibid.
You drop a bomb, it falls on the just and the unjust. I don’t wish the culmination of three centuries of physics to be a weapon of mass destruction. ibid. Izzy
We still don’t know if a hydrogen bomb is technically feasible. ibid. Oppenheimer
You’re the great salesman of science. You can convince anyone of anything. Even yourself. ibid. Szilard
What did Fermi mean by atmospheric ignition? ibid. General to Oppenheimer
Robert, try not to blow up the world. ibid.
These things are hard on your heart. ibid. Oppenheimer
And now I am become death. The destroyer of worlds. ibid.
Now it’s your turn to deal with the consequences of your achievement. ibid. Einstein to Oppenheimer
An ordinary government building: nine floors of glass and steel reinforced concrete, build to code, built to last. The one morning a crude bomb causes destruction on an unimaginable scale. In nine seconds the building disintegrates. 168 people will die as a result of the explosion. Seconds from Disaster s1e3: The Bomb in Oklahoma City
Even the date he has chosen deliberately. Exactly two years before in Waco, Texas, federal agents storm a militia compound … He blames the US government for their deaths and vows revenge. His name is Timothy McVeigh. ibid.
A motel owner recognises the identikit picture as a man who recently stayed there driving a Ryder truck. ibid.
October 2002, Bali: Hundreds of young tourists enjoy a tropical island resort. Then massive explosions rip through the packed nightclubs. The bombings claim 202 lives. It’s the worst act of terror since 9/11. Seconds from Disaster s2e8: The Bali Bombing
At a rented house 11 kilometres away terrorist mastermind Samudra calls a strategy meeting. The five men present are part of an Islamic terrorist network … trained by al-Qaeda. ibid.
15 seconds after the first black a second colossal explosion … kills dozens inside and outside the Sari Club instantly … a scene of carnage and devastation. ibid.
It’s a busy Friday morning in the African city of Nairobi. Then, the air is shattered by a massive explosion. A huge bomb detonates outside the American Embassy demolishing a neighbouring seven-storey building. Hundreds of people are buried and thousands are injured. Seconds from Disaster s2e18: American Embassy Bombing, Nairobi
The driver steers the truck straight at the fence. As rescuers arrive they are confronted with total chaos: the force of the huge blast has brought the Ufundi building crashing to the ground. ibid.
In Tanzania witnesses say that two-thirds of the US Embassy in Das-es-Salaam was destroyed. ibid. US TV news
The skies over Japan, August 9th 1945: America is about to drop its second atomic bomb in three days. Within seconds 30% of Nagasaki is flattened, and more than 30,000 people are vaporized. Seconds from Disaster s6e8: Nagasaki: The Forgotten Bomb
With the force of 22 kilo-tons of TNT, Fatman generates heat of over 4,000 degrees Celsius, and winds of up to 1,000 kilometres an hour that surge across the city.
6.7 square kilometres of the city has been turned to rubble. More than 70,000 men, women and children are vaporized. 70,000 more are injured. ibid.
A twisted story of a mail bomb, three friends, a suicide, shady characters, a faked death, and one lucky escape. For 17 years Roberto de Heredia was looking over his shoulder, an international fugitive. A man who faked his own death and bolted overseas after being charged with the attempted murder of Brett Boyd in a crime known as the Belrose parcel bombing. A crime he maintains he didn’t commit. Inside Crime s2e8: Roberto de Heredia, 2020
Heredia was shot in the car park of this Botany apartment block near Sydney airport. ibid.
They had his DNA from the parcel bomb stamps and his fingerprints on the delivery card. ibid.
Roberto de Heredia always maintained he was set up. ibid.
The disgraced former detective Ray Peattie who led the investigation into the Belrose bombing. Detective Peattie has admitted to fabricating evidence in multiple cases. ibid.
Just after 11 p.m. on the 12th of October 2002 a coordinated suicide attack devastated 2 nightclubs on the Indonesian island of Bali. 202 lives were destroyed and countless others wrecked in an indiscriminate act of revenge against young Westerners. Zero Hour s2e1: Bali Bombing
He was an ordinary American with an all-American childhood of little league baseball, Santa Claus, and Cowboys and Indians … One bright spring morning in April 1995 … It was the worst peacetime atrocity on United States’ soil at that time, and it shocked America and most of the world. Zero Hour s2e2: Oklahoma Bombing: One of America’s Own
For he was no Islamist bomber from a foreign land but one of America’s own. ibid.
‘The Turner Diaries is just the kind of book that he was looking for, because it was a book about gun rights, it was a book about hatred for the US government, and it was also a book about a terrorist act.’ ibid. comment
His victims will include men like him. ibid.
[Sam Cohen]: I’m not universally loved. To put it mildly. Neutron Bomb, 2022
The most detested weapon on Earth. ibid. Cohen
The neutron bomb is a defensive weapon … ibid. Reagan
One weapon stood out amongst all others in purpose and function, enhancing an invisible yet deadly characteristic of nuclear fusion. This was the neutron bomb. ibid. narrator
The Armor Soldier on the Nuclear Battlefield (Army training video): Have faith in your leaders. They will ensure that you do not get more radiation than is absolutely necessary. ibid.
A bomb that would one day weaponise neutron radiation. ibid. narrator
Mathematical models were based on their neurotic way of thinking. ibid. Cohen
Eisenhower eventually had reservations about the concept of the neutron bomb. ibid. Narrator
Over the next decade 26 nuclear tests would be conducted under Project Plowshare for the development of peaceful nuclear weapons. The neutron bomb continued to be aided by advancements in this technology … Plowshare quietly closed in 1977. ibid.
Sam’s [Cohen] advocacy for his neutron bomb was falling on deaf ears. ibid.
To enable me to cope with the stresses and the nightmares from the atom bombs I witnessed, I have devised ways and means of keeping myself busy. Britain’s Nuclear Bomb Scandal: Our Story, comment, BBC 2024
I’m part of something that should never have happened. ibid.
The longest-running scandal in British history. There is nothing bigger or worse than what’s happened to the nuclear victims. ibid.
You could see the evil in it. It was like looking at the devil. ibid.
Between 1952 and 1963 Britain embarks on a series of nuclear tests in Australia and the South Pacific. The operation involves around 39,000 British and Commonwealth servicemen and scientists. Collectively, the men experience 45 atomic and hydrogen bombs and hundreds of radioactive experiments. ibid. captions
You feel it go through your body. You’re like a light-bulb. ibid. comment
Nobody told us anything. We were just left to get on with life. ibid.
The hydrogen bomb is now as necessary as the atomic bomb was before it. ibid.
They [children] were playing in the sand dunes that day. ibid. Australian indigenous relative of survivor
A 1980 report suggested that up to 50 Aboriginal people died as a direct result of the black mist. Without official records that number cannot be substantiated. ibid. caption
Of the 300 or so men who were on HMS Diana, about half of those who are found to have died since, died from tumours of some sort. ibid. comment
Between 1953 and 1963, 205 men were ordered to fly through mushroom clouds. ibid.
The neglect of safety at Christmas Island was appalling. ibid.
Those at the top were not too worried about the human cost. ibid.
We knew enough to know that this is dangerous. ibid.
The ionising radiation is with you for the rest of your days. ibid.
Very little was shared even with the Australian government. ibid.
Maralinga: Roughly 22 kg of Plutonium-239 was left lying around the site. And that’s easily enough to kill everyone on the planet. ibid.
The question is simple: What killed the babies? ibid.
We have now three or four generations being born with problems. ibid.
It’s like these invisible bullets that keep being fired. ibid.