America 'sold British nuclear secrets to Russia': WikiLeaks

[Jan Klimkowski]

You have to wonder why Blighty buys these fucking things to begin with. Firstly, we can't use them without US permission - as they control the release keys - and secondly, they give away their secrets as "bargaining chips" to suit their own grand strategy.

There's not much point really is there.

All is explained in the best Apes movie, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, with a screenplay written by Paul Dehn - the former Special Operations Executive turned scriptwriter, who credits also include the 1966 version of The Spy Who Came In From The Cold.

Chuck Heston jumps into a holographic hallucination to enter the Forbidden Zone, a subterranean, post-apocalyptic, NYC subway where arrogant human survivors worship the Doomsday Rocket, glistening in the altar of their church, praying to the Thing that transformed them into mutants....

The trailer I've linked to above contains some of the film's key shots.

The Alpha and Omega link here is to a scene written by Dehn, and filmed, but cut by the studio from the released version of Beneath.

In the scene, the human mutant leader says: "If the impossible should happen, if the apes should defeat us, I will not surrender to an animal." The missile silo opens, and the leader talks of programming the Doomsday Rocket to hit Ape City.

The scene never saw cinematic release.

But then in 1970, MAD - Mutually Assured Destruction - was all the rage with the generalissimos...