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Six: Fusion
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[APPLAUSE]
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LAWSON
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For several years, before his posting to London as an energy attaché at the US Embassy, Colonel Jedburgh reported directly to the Director of Scientific Intelligence at Langley. In his time, he's also been a member of the Standing Committee on Nuclear Materials Safeguards and the International Anti-Terrorism Committee. Finally, I'm sure that my last guest needs no introduction. Our first nuclear entrepreneur, the President of the Fusion Corporation of Kansas, the Henry Ford of the Sunrise Industries, ladies and gentlemen, Jerry C. Grogan.
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GROGAN
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Hello, Darius. Where's my plutonium?
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LAWSON
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And so, without more ado, to open our debate tonight on the future of space, I call upon the President of the Fusion Corporation Kansas, Jerry Grogan.
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GROGAN
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Ladies and gentlemen, I must apologise for my late arrival. However, I did not want to leave London until I had confirmation that my company's bid for International Irradiated Fuels is to be allowed to stand. It is.
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NEWSREADER
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 [V.O. ON RADIO] The decision this morning to allow the bid to proceed from the Fusion Corporation of Kansas for International Irradiated Fuels, the British private nuclear waste plant, was greeted in the city with cautious optimism. Fusion, which is rumoured to be a strong contender for substantial contracts for President Reagan's Star Wars programme, will bring to the British company fresh capital and a new sense of purpose. There's still strong opposition to the sale in some quarters. At a NATO conference at Gleneagles Hotel this morning...
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GROGAN
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When we unlock a chain reaction, the energy which is compressed in it was put there in the first ten seconds of the universe's existence. That is an awesome thing, ladies and gentlemen. We are tapping into the very source of God's creation. Today we have access to that power, but we do not control it, and that is the sole purpose of my corporation. To find a way to control it. When we have done so, we can say, for the first time in the history of the planet, man will be in charge.
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[APPLAUSE]
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[RETCHES]
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EMMA
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That's enough, Dad.
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GROGAN
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What we're trying to do in Kansas at the moment is to take the plutonium bomb and explode it in a vessel not much larger than the circumference of my arms, and to control the energy in there. By harnessing that energy, we can direct it in the form of lasers, halfway across the world to shoot down enemy rockets before they leave their silos. That is the capability for which we are aiming. It will cost us billions of dollars to get there, but in the end, it'll be worth it.
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[APPLAUSE]
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EMMA
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You're getting angry again.
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CRAVEN
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I'm dying.
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EMMA
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Do you regret it?
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CRAVEN
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I feel so much is left undone.
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EMMA
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Other people will continue the job. You'll be with me.
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CRAVEN
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I still don't understand.
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EMMA
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Dad, it's happened before, you know. Millions of years ago, when the earth was cold, it looked as if life on the planet would cease to exist. But black flowers began to grow, multiplying across its face, till the entire landscape was covered in blooms. Slowly, the blackness of the flowers sucked in the heat of the sun, and life began to evolve again. That is the power of Gaia.
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CRAVEN
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It will take more than a black flower to save us this time.
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