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Largest bomb carried by Fighters or Bombers
"You Only Live Twice" by Ian Fleming JONATHAN CAPE 1964 fp 1964
Page 68 'If you insist, Mr Tanaka.' 'I am afraid I must, Commander.' 'So be it.' Bond drew the sheet of paper towards him. The text was in English. This is what it said: TO ALL STATIONS GRADE TWO AND ABOVE. TO BE DECIPHERED BY ADDRESSEE PERSONALLY AND THEN DESTROYED. WHEN DESTRUCTION HAS BEEN EFFECTED CONFIRM BY THE CODE WORD QUOTE SATURN UNQUOTE. TEXT BEGINS: IN AMPLIFICATION OF THE NUMBER ONES PUBLISHED SPEECH TO THE SUPREME SOVIET ON SEPTEMBER FIRST THIS CONFIRMS THAT WE ARE IN POSSESS O F THE TWO HUNDRED MEGATON WEAPON AND THAT TEST FIRING WILL TAKE PLACE ON SEPTEMBER TWENTIETH AT HIGH ALTITUDE IN THE NOVAYA ZEMLYA AREAS TOP. CONSIDERABLE FALLOUT CAN BE EXPECTED AND PUBLIC OUTCRY CAN BE ANTICIPATED IN THE ARCTIC, NORTH PACIFIC AND ALASKAN AREAS STOP THIS SHOULD BE COUNTERED AN WILL BE COUNTERED FROM MOSCOW BY REFERENCE TO THE MORE RECENT TEST BY AMERICAN AND TO NUMBER ONES REPEATED DEMANDS FOR AN END TO TESTS OF NUCLEAR FISSION WEAPONS OF OFFENCE WHICH HAVE SUCCESSIVELY BEEN REBUFFED STOP FOR INFORMATION THE DELIVER OF ONE SUCH WEAPON BY ICBM ON LONDON WOULD DESTROY ALL LIE AND PROPERTY SOUTH A LINE DRAWN BETWEEN NEWCASTLE AND CARLISLE STOP IT FOLLOWS THAT SECOND MISSILE DROPPED IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF ABERDEEN WOULD INEVITABLY RESULT IN THE TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF BRITAIN AND IRELAND STOP THIS FACT WILL SHORTLY BE EMPLOYED BY A NUMBER ONE AS THE TEETH IN A DIPLOMATIC DEMARCHE DESIGNED TO ACHIEVE THE REMOVAL OF ALL AMERICAN BASES AND OFFENSIVE WEAPONS FROM BRITAIN AND THE NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT OF BRITAIN ITSELF STOP. THIS WILL TEST TO THE UTTERMOST AND PROBABLY DESTROY THE ANGLE HYPHEN AMERICAN ALLIANCE SINCE IT CAN ASSUMED THAT AMERICA WILL NOT RISK A NUCLEAR WAR INVOLVING HER TERRITORY FOR THE SAKE OF RESCUING A NOW MORE OR LESS VALUELESS ALLY DASH AN ALLY NOW OPENLY REGARDED IN WASHING TON AS OF LITTLE MORE ACCOUNT THAN BELGIUM OF ITALY STOP IF THIS DIPLOMATIC DEMARCHE COMMA WHICH MUST OF COURSE BE CATEGORIZED AS CARRYING SOME DEGREE OF RISK COMMA IS SUCCESSFUL IT FOLLOWS THAT SIMILAR DEMARCHES WILL BE UNDERTAKEN IN EUROPE AND LATER IN THE PACIFIC AREA COMMA INDIVIDUAL COUNTRIES BEING SINGLED OUT ONE BY ONE FOR TERRORIZATION AND DEMORALIZATION STOP [the deciphered telegram continues] Earlier, at page 58, Bond is drinking with the head of the Australian office, Dikko Henderson in Tokyo. Henderson is a straight-talking boozer who does not sugar-coat it. He continues: Just to show you I'm getting rather tight - not drunk, mark you - I'd add that the U.N. are going to reap the father and mother of a whirlwind by quote liberating unquote the colonial peoples. Give 'em a thousand years, yes. But give 'em ten, no. You're only taking away their blow-pipes and giving them machine guns. Just you wait for the first one to start crying to high heaven for nuclear fission. Because they must have quote parity unquote with the lousy colonial powers. I'll give you ten years for that to happen, my friend And when it does, I'll dig myself a deep hole in the ground and sit in it. Bond laughed. 'That also doesn't sound very i demokorasu /i.' Henderson continues ' "I fornicate upon thy demokorasu" as brother Hemingway would have said. I stand for government by an elite.' Dikko Henderson downed his ninth pint of sake. "You Only Live Twice" by Ian Fleming JONATHAN CAPE 1964 fp 1964 |
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