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...were held hostage, I would say that I was expendable. I say, blow up, shoot up, bomb and machine-gun the plane. This would kill the hijackers, the crew and the innocent hostages, but that is the only answer to terrorists' demands. Mary E. Isgrig Paris...
...First we had to figure out how the thing would be designed. Everyone was working just as fast as possible--either on the gun-assembly method, which was used for the uranium bomb in Hiroshima, or on the implosion method, which we used for the plutonium bomb at Trinity and later in Nagasaki. [George] Kistiakowsky pooh-poohed the implosion idea at first; he was a real tough cookie. But then he got behind it. Both bombs were going ahead full steam...
...ever built or used, uranium being that much more difficult to obtain than plutonium. One of the spurs to the American atom bomb effort had been a report in 1943 that Hitler had ordered uranium shipped out of mines in Belgium. It was also taken for granted that the gun-assembly method--one piece of purified uranium (uranium-235) fired into another at terrific speed--would work, so the Hiroshima bomb was never tested till the morning it was dropped...
...inevitable encounter in a John Boorman film: a man of the world and a nature boy face each other through the rushing curtain of a waterfall. The man, with machine gun poised to fire, represents civilization and its discontents; the boy, his bow and arrow taut, seems very much the noble savage painted in jungle pastels. In Deliverance, Zardoz, Exorcist II: The Heretic and Excalibur, Boorman set these same elemental antagonists, intellect and instinct, on a collision course. Here, though, he has added a crucial twist. Tomme (Charley Boorman) is the man's son, abducted by a Brazilian Indian tribe...
...Performance of the Week The first civilians in almost 60 years crossed the disputed territory between Srinagar, the capital of Indian Kashmir, and its Pakistani counterpart Muzaffarabad last week, despite an earlier bomb attack on the route and a gun attack on a building housing the Indian passengers in Srinagar. The safe arrival of the buses' 49 passengers was taken as a symbol of warming ties between the fractious neighbors. "The caravan of peace has started," declared Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh...