Quote for the Day

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Continuing the We Didn't Start the Fire roll call . . . 

Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray

South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio

Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Television,

North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

Rosenbergs, H-Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom

Brando, The King And I, and The Catcher In The Rye

Eisenhower, Vaccine, England's got a new queen

Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye

Today: H-Bomb

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Song reference:

H-Bomb

A nuclear fusion weapon, unlike A bombs, which are nuclear fission weapons. I don’t know what that means either. The development of the H Bomb as a nuclear weapon was announced early in 1950, when it was already being developed. It was first tested in 1952.

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Quote:

Just as apt today.

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Major Kong rides the H Bomb to the beginning of extinction.