Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Le Monde Blasts Dr Strangelove's Guinea Pigs

Why would an article (by Fabienne Lips-Dumas) from the avant-garde quarterly XXI be republished in Le Monde? Because it equates American cold warriors as Doctor Strangelove…
Les scientifiques américains, emmenés par Edward Teller, le docteur Folamour du laboratoire Lawrence Livermore National, creuset de la recherche nucléaire, brûlaient de connaître la force de leur bombe H. Elle leur fera peur. Castle Bravo reste la bombe la plus puissante qu'ils aient jamais osé tester.
A lot of irony surrounds the phrase used by the army, "For the good of mankind", and the realities of the Cold War and of the world, then and now, are uniformly repressed in order to depict the Americans as nothing less than evil, bellicose warmongers…

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