Hello, I’m going to read a declaration of a state of war. ibid. Bernardine Dohrn
Revolution is touching all of our lives. Freaks are revolutionaries and revolutionaries are freaks. ibid.
There’s no way to be committed to non-violence in the middle of the most violent society that history has ever created. ibid.
Our country was murdering millions of people. ibid. Mark Rudd
The marches on Washington were up to 5,000,000/1,000,000. ibid. Brian Flanaghan
This nation is in a state of turmoil perhaps unparalleled in our history. Poverty amidst wealth, widespread racism, and bewilderment over a strange war, are the seeds of the revolution. ibid. news report
We were entering an incredible period of revolution. ibid. Naomi Jaffe
In June 1969 the organisation Students for a Democratic Society held its annual convention at the Coliseum in Chicago ... Students joined SDS by the thousand. ibid.
The Weathermen took their name from the Bob Dylan lyric: You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. ibid.
A revolution is not a spectacle! There are no spectators! Everyone participate whether they know it or not. ibid. protest poster
Bring the War Home was our slogan. ibid. Weatherman
We felt that doing nothing in a period of repressive violence is itself a form of violence. That’s really the part that I think is the hardest for people to understand. If you sit in your house, live your white life and go to your white job, and allow the country that you live in to murder people and to commit genocide, and you sit there and you don’t do anything about it, that’s violence. ibid. Naomi Jaffe
They’re not romantic revolutionaries; they’re the same thugs and hoodlums that have always plagued the good people. ibid. Richard Nixon
Once Richard Nixon was elected president and was inaugurated in January 1969, we were targeted, bam, bam, bam, by a very sophisticated, advanced, counterintelligence program, at the same time, by very crude and violent police. ibid. Kathleen Neal Cleaver, Black Panther Party
This pattern of harassment is going on against the Black Panther Party across the country. On Friday, the Watts office of the Black Panther Party was bombed and demolished. Last week the Des Moines office was bombed. They can’t stop anything we’re doing as a legitimate political organization so they come in and shoot us and shoot tear-gas in our office and drag people off to jail like they’ve lost they minds. ibid.
December 1969: the month Brad Hampton was killed was a moment of intense violence and despair in America. ibid.
All guilty. All Americans were legitimate targets for attack. We wanted this country to taste a little bit of what it had been dishing out ... I cherished my hate as a badge of moral superiority. ibid. Weatherwoman
During the early 1970s there was a strong radical prison movement in the United States. ibid.
The Underground Weatherman organisation claimed responsibility for the San Francisco and the Sacramento bombings. ibid.
One of the group’s most high profile actions was helping the counter-culture hero Timothy Leary escape from a Californian prison. ibid.
The Third World War has begun. Join us in the fight for freedom. ibid. Timothy Leary
Weather Underground Splits Up Over Plan To Come Into The Open. ibid. The New York Times article
I think that part of the Weatherman phenomenon that was right was our understanding of what the position of the United States is in the world. It was this knowledge that we just couldn't handle; it was too big. We didn’t know what to do. In a way I still don’t know what to do with this knowledge. I don’t know what needs to be done now, and it's still eating away at me just as it did thirty years ago. ibid. Mark Rudd
Pan Am Flight 103 mysteriously blew up in mid-air over the small Scottish town of Lockerbie. Terror Attacks that Shocked Britain
1984: Margaret Thatcher was prime minister and the Tory Party had gathered in the Grand Hotel in Brighton for their annual conference ... At 2.54 a.m. a bomb went off in a suite close to Thatcher’s own. ibid.
Arndale Shopping Centre ... The Omagh bombing 1998 ... The Bali bombing ... Beslan school hostages ... Madrid railway bombings ... July 7th London bombings ... Mumbai terrorist attacks. ibid.
They’ve got to draw in their horns and stop their aggression, or we’re going to bomb them back into the Stone Age. Curtis E LeMay, US Air Force
That was in fact the most shameful episode I could think of: that I really did at a critical moment help McNamara persuade the president by information I gave him – that he should start a systematic campaign of bombing. The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, 2009
The British bomb was all about our national virility. It was a kind of atomic Viagra. Dominic Sandbrook, Strange Days – Cold War Britain I: Red Dawn, BBC 2013
It had all the earmarks of a CIA operation; the bomb killed everybody in the room except the intended target! William F Buckley junior
Georgia’s sandy coastal shallows hide a deadly secret – a hydrogen bomb dumped by an American bomber half a century ago. Pentagon officials insist the missing H bomb poses no threat. But with the threat of nuclear terrorism after 9/11 some aren’t so sure. America’s Lost H Bomb, 2007
Richardson dumps the H-bomb. The 7,600 pound nuke plummets a mile and a half somewhere near the shore of Tybee Island, Georgia but doesn’t explode. Its safeties hold. ibid.
Another US nuclear weapon mishap – this one over Palomares, Spain. A collision between a refuelling plane and a B-52 killed seven US airmen and dropped four 1.4 megaton H-bombs over Spanish tomato farms. Parachutes on two of the bombs opened. ibid.
Jack Howard, Defense Secretary ... testified under oath that four nuclear weapons had been lost and were still missing. ibid.
There are approximately 10,000 nuclear weapons in America’s arsenal today. ibid.
Willingdon has stolen a UR-12 bomb from the magazine at Wallingford. He’s also written a personal letter to the prime minister. He says that unless it’s publicly announced that Great Britain will stop making any more such weapons, he’ll set it off and destroy what he calls the seat of government. Seven Days to Noon 1950 starring Barry Jones & Olive Sloane & Andre Morell & Sheila Manahan & Hugh Cross & Joan Hickson & Ronald Adam & Marie Ney & Wyndham Goldie & Russell Waters & Martin Boddey et al, director Roy and John Boulting, men in car
But why? Why did he come to Copenhagen? Copenhagen 2002 starring Stephen Rea & Daniel Craig & Francesca Annis et al, director Howard Davies, opening scene Mrs Bohr to Bohr getting off bus
There are only two things the world remembers about me. One is the uncertainty principle, the other is my mysterious visit to Niels Bohr in Copenhagen in 1941. ibid. Heisenberg’s commentary
The more I look back on it the more I think Heisenberg was the greatest of them all. ibid. Bohr
4So what was Bohr? He was the first of us all. The father of it all. Modern atomic physics began when Bohr realised that quantum theory applied to matter as well as energy, 1913. ibid. Heisenberg’s commentary
He taught Relativity and they said it was Jewish physics. ibid. Bohr to wife
No-one is going to develop a weapon based on nuclear fission. ibid.
The ashes have become very cold indeed. ibid. Mrs Bohr
Mathematics becomes very odd when you apply it to people. ibid. Heisenberg to Bohr
Does one as a physicist have the moral right to work on the practical exploitation of atomic energy? ibid. Heisenberg to Bohr
Do you actually think uranium fission can be used for the construction of weapons? ibid. Bohr to Heisenberg
Niels Bohr says that in his considered judgment supplying a homicidal maniac with an improved instrument of mass murder is shall we say an interesting idea ... A really rather uninteresting idea. ibid. Bohr to Heisenberg
There was a report in a Stockholm newspaper that the Americans are working on an atomic bomb. ibid. Heisenberg to Bohr
You built the bomb. And used it on a living target. ibid.
The bomb would have been built whether he’d gone or not. ibid. Mrs Bohr to Heisenberg
That’s the point. Under my control. ibid. Heisenberg to Bohr, with Mrs Bohr
Sense is mathematics. ibid. Heisenberg