In Honolulu, the explosions were front page news. “N-Blast Tonight May Be Dazzling: Good View Likely,” said the Honolulu Advertiser. Hotels held what they called “Rainbow Bomb Parties” on rooftops and verandas. When the bomb burst, people told of blackouts and strange electrical malfunctions, like garage doors opening and closing on their own. But the big show was in the sky.
“Starfish Prime,” indeed. Some fun, eh kid? July of ’62, ah yes I Remember it well. ;} Sounds like what Van Allen inadvertently discovered, whilst exploring the possibilities of generating various speculative Phenomena in his Belt, was the Electro-Magnetic Pulse (EMP) effect. :>
(General Buck Turgidson): General Ripper called Strategic Air Command headquarters shortly after he issued the go code. I have a partial transcript of that conversation if you’d like me to read it.
(President Merkin Muffley): Read it.
(Turgidson): The duty officer asked General Ripper to confirm the fact the he had issued the go code and he said, “Yes gentlemen, they are on their way in and no one can bring them back. For the sake of our country and our way of life, I suggest you get the rest of SAC in after them, otherwise we will be totally destroyed by red retaliation. My boys will give you the best kind of start, fourteen hundred megatons worth, and you sure as hell won’t stop them now. So let’s get going. There’s no other choice. God willing, we will prevail in peace and freedom from fear and in true health through the purity and essence of our natural fluids. God bless you all.” Then he hung up. We’re still trying to figure out the meaning of that last phrase, sir.
(Muffley): There’s nothing to figure out, General Turgidson. This man is obviously a psychotic.
(Turgidson): Well, I’d like to hold off judgment on a thing like that, sir, until all the facts are in.
“Starfish Prime,” indeed. Some fun, eh kid? July of ’62, ah yes I Remember it well. ;} Sounds like what Van Allen inadvertently discovered, whilst exploring the possibilities of generating various speculative Phenomena in his Belt, was the Electro-Magnetic Pulse (EMP) effect. :>
“We will all go together when we go,
All suffused with an incandescent glow…”
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