I shatter the objective universe around you, and all you can say is, There’s an error in the formulation! ibid. Heisenberg to Bohr
We turned the world inside out ... We put man back at the centre of the universe. ibid. Bohr to Heisenberg
I can only say that it worked. ibid. Heisenberg to Bohr & Mrs Bohr
The critical mass – that was the most important thing. ibid. Bohr to Heisenberg, with Mrs Bohr
And suddenly a very different and very terrible work begins to take shape. ibid. Bohr
What will be left of our beloved world? Our ruined and dishonoured and beloved world. ibid. Mrs Bohr
Hi There Dear John. (Nuclear & Atom & Bomb & Weapons & Cold War & War) Dr Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 1963 starring Peter Sellers & George C Scott & Sterling Haydenn & Keenan Wynn & Slim Pickens & Peter Bull & James Earl Jones & Tracy Reed & Shane Rimmer et al, director Stanley Kubric, names imprinted on nuclear bombs
I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion, and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids. ibid. Jack Ripper
Mandrake, do you recall what Clemenceau once said? He said, ‘War is too important to be left to the generals.’ When he said that, fifty years ago, he may have been right. But now war is too important to be left to the politicians. They have neither the time nor inclination for strategic thought. ibid.
Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here. This is the war room. ibid. president
Good, then. Well then, as you say, we’re both coming through fine. Good. Well, it’s good that you’re fine, and – and I’m fine. I agree with you. It’s great to be fine. [laughs] Now then, Dmitri, you know how we’ve always talked about the possibility of something going wrong with the bomb. The BOMB, Dmitri. The hydrogen bomb. Well now, what happened is, uh, one of our base commanders, he had a sort of – Well, he went a little funny in the head. You know. Just a little funny. And uh, he went and did a silly thing. ibid. president
It’s a friendly call. Of course it’s a friendly call. Listen, if it wasn’t friendly, you probably wouldn’t have even got it. They will not reach their targets for at least another hour. I am, I am positive, Dmitri. Listen, I’ve been all over this with your Ambassador. It is not a trick. Well, I’ll tell you. We’d like to give your Air Staff a complete rundown on the targets, the flight plans, and the defensive systems of the planes. ibid.
Perhaps it might be better, Mr. President, if you were more concerned with the American people, than with your image in the history books. ibid. Turgidson
Muffley: How long would you have to stay down there?
Dr Strangelove: Well let’s see now ah ... cobalt thorium G ... Radioactive half-life of uh ... I would think that uh ... possibly uh ... one hundred years. ibid.
Turgidson: Doctor, you mentioned the ratio of ten women to each man. Now, wouldn’t that necessitate the abandonment of the so-called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned?
Dr Strangelove: Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious ... service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature.
Russian Ambassador: I must confess, you have an astonishingly good idea there, Doctor. ibid.
Peace Is Our Profession. ibid. motto of 843th Bomb Wing Strategic Command
Once launched, the bomb was absolutely unapproachable and uncontrollable until its forces were nearly exhausted, and from the crater that burst open above it, puffs of heavy incandescent vapour and fragments of viciously punitive rock and mud, saturated with Carolinium, and each a centre of scorching and blistering energy were flung high and far.
Such was the crowning triumph of military science, the ultimate explosive, that was to give the ‘decisive touch’ to war. H G Wells, The World Set Free, 1914
And these atomic bombs which science burst upon the world that night were strange even to the men who used them. ibid.
The first atomic bomb was assembled at Los Alamos, a secret laboratory in New Mexico. The Atomic Bomb Story: Trinity & Beyond, 1995
The blast instantly raised temperatures to ten million degrees, releasing a force of a million pounds of pressure, vaporising the tower and all desert life within half a mile. ibid.
The Little Boy bomb was detonated over Hiroshima at an altitude of 1,800 feet to achieve maximum blast effect. ibid.
The atom bomb was no ‘great decision’. It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness. Harry S Truman
What is Myrrh anyway? A balm? What are you giving him a balm for? It might bite him. Monty Python’s Life of Brian 1979 ***** starring Graham Chapman & John Cleese & Terry Gilliam & Eric Idle & Terry Jones & Michael Palin & Kenneth Colley & Neil Innes & Gwen Taylor & Terence barler & Carol Cleveland & Spike Milligan et al, director Terry Jones, Mary
3/11 happened 911 days after 9/11. The Times of India headline 13th March 2004
Every one of the supposed bombers had intimate links with the Spanish security services. Alex Jones, 7/7 London Bombings – Government Involvement
Each of the ten blasts would have required between 40 and 50 pounds of high-order military explosives in the C-4/SemtexH category. Such explosives have a very low specific gravity meaning they are exceptionally bulky for their given weights; therefore this would have required ten strong terrorists on the down platform at the same time, each lugging a huge haversack in the middle of the rush hour. Strange then that no eyewitnesses at Alcala de Henares remembers seeing any of them, for these bulky gentlemen would most certainly have stood out in the crowd and caused considerable suspicion among the commuters. 3/11 The Ripple Effect
Every one of the four trains were first serviced; that means each was making its first run of the day from its respective overnight depot after being serviced and cleaned ... We also know that the weapons were fitted to the rolling stock before the trains departed from their respective night yards or depots. ibid.
Why the components supposedly found in the analysis were hidden for three years? Why the trains’ wreckage from the HM attack was not sent to the scientific police? Why only two days after the terrorist attack did the judge allow the destruction of the trains? ibid.
The Spanish Federal Government Fools The Entire Western World On April Fool’s Day. ibid. ch9
ICTS Europe was also in charge of handling the security at London bus terminals and subways where the terror attacks on July 7th 2005 took place. ibid.
Spain’s Supreme Court Acquits Four Over Madrid Bombings. ABC News headline, cited 3/11 The Ripple Effect
This is the story of two terrifying weeks in London when a lone bomber held the City in the grip of terror. No-one knew where he’d strike next or why. Hundreds were maimed. Three people were killed. The police manhunt faced an enormous challenge. Real Crime [with Mark Austin] s6e9: Nailing the Nail Bomber, ITV 2007
It helped that Brixton had one of the UK’s highest concentrations of CCTV cameras. ibid.
24th April: Only six people needed treatment for minor injuries. An hour or two later and Brick Lane would have been heaving with people. ibid.
The police were now confident that the attacks were racially motivated. ibid.
30th April: ‘We’re talking six-inch nails, so you could see them protruding out of people’s arms, legs, faces, chests; I mean it could have been a hardware store. ibid.
This bomb was the most horrific: in the confined bar two people had been killed, but many more were critically injured. ibid.
A bomber on the loose, a town in fear. Behind the campaign of terror a plot to extort millions from Britain’s biggest retailer. Real Crime With Mark Austin s8e7: The Tesco Bomber, ITV 2009
He carried out his threat. A device had exploded in a Bournemouth suburb ... Police called in the bomb squad. ibid.
It was the biggest police manhunt in a generation. Four men who wanted to kill as many people as they could and were prepared to die in order to do it. Real Crime with Mark Austin s8e8: Bombers on the Run
21st July 2005: four suicide bombers are on the run. ibid.
The hunt was on now for a fifth terrorism on the run. ibid.