:49:00
I've got a gammy leg.
Oh, dear. Gone. Shot off.
:49:07
Mandrake, come over here.
The redcoats are coming.
:49:11
When it is detonated, it will produce
enough radioactive fallout...
:49:16
so that in ten months...
:49:18
the surface ofthe Earth
will be as dead as the moon!
:49:21
Come on, De Sadesky!
That's ridiculous!
:49:24
Our studies show even the worst fallout
is down to a safe level after two weeks.
:49:28
- You never heard ofcobalt theoium G.
- What about it?
:49:33
Cobalt thorium G has
a radioactive half-life of93 years.
:49:37
Ifyou take 50 H bombs
in the 1 00 megaton range...
:49:40
andjacket them
with cobalt thorium G...
:49:43
when they are exploded,
theywill produce a doomsday shroud...
:49:48
a lethal cloud ofradioactivity...
:49:50
which will encircle the Earth
for 93 years!
:49:54
What a load ofCommie bull.
I mean, after all.
:49:59
I'm afraid I don't understand
something, Alexi.
:50:02
Is the premier threatening to explode it
ifour planes carry out their attack?
:50:06
No, sir. It is not a thing
a sane man would do.
:50:08
The doomsday machine is designed
to trigger itselfautomatically.
:50:11
Surelyyou can disarm it somehow.
:50:13
It is designed to explode if
any attempt is made to un-trigger it.
:50:17
Automatically?
:50:19
It's a Commie trick!
We're wasting valuable time!
:50:21
Look at the big board!
They're getting ready to clobber us!
:50:25
This is absolute madness.
Why should you build such a thing?
:50:29
There are those ofus
who fought against it.
:50:31
But in the end, we could not keep up
with the expense involved...
:50:34
in the arms race, the space race
and the peace race.
:50:38
At the same time, our people grumbled
for more nylons and washing machines.
:50:43
Our doomsday scheme cost us
just a small fraction...
:50:46
ofwhat we have been spending on defense
in a singleyear.
:50:49
The deciding factorwas when we learned
your countrywas working similarly...
:50:54
and we were afraid ofa doomsday gap!
:50:56
This is preposterous! I've never
approved ofanything like that.
:50:59
Our source was The New York Times.