As someone who worked next to the twin towers, I still feel guilty about my excursion into Big Banking.
(Bankers Trust, or "Wankers Truss" as we called it) BT was still in the big 10 banks in those days.
Funny thing, BT gave me an award for community work, at the same time community workers throughout CentrAm were being disappeared by US funded death squads.
So I felt little sympathy for the bonds traders who did the big dive.
I hope that not many unnamed undocumented immigrant cleaners were in the towerss at 9am.
I guess I just surfed that 1980 wave from Coromandel commune to Manhattan greed.
Guilt made worse because I failed to get rich.
I left BT when I saw printouts of their illegal loans to Pinochet.
Actually I was kicked out, I dont know if it was for pinning up a picture of burned helicopters in the Iran desert (Jimmy Carter's failed hostage rescue), or for my weekend picketing activities with the "Moncada" group, a bunch of Commie women attempting to resist harassment of blacks in Brooklyn heights. As if anyone could stop gentrification.
Years later I met a New York woman in Davao City. She had been traveling alone through Mindanao, even than that seemed dangerous to me. She informed me that gentrification had conquered even "Alphabet City" which in my time in Manhattan was Hispanic and no-go.
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ET the father of the HBomb, finally dead.
The key to the bomb was "Plastic"
polystyrene around the LiD stick provided low density C to convert outgoing gamma to inward X?
Teller famously claimed that big bombs were not a problem, he reckoned that the area of damage didnt increase much from 10 to 100 Megatons, just a bigger chunk of atmosphere blasted into space.
That was before Pinatubo, Carl Sagans Mars Dust studies, and the Alverez asteroid idea for the CT extinction showed that global climate effects could leave us all in the dark
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