Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
[PDF file]: […] ‘defining moment’ in ‘the Era of Pandemonium’, was the president discovering ‘that disinfectant kills the virus . . . Maybe injecting the right kind of disinfectant might kill the thing’. (pp. 184-185) At the time of writing the US death toll from the pandemic has just exceeded 600,000 people. Smock is also outraged by […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
[PDF file]: […] of life occasioned to white troops by such expeditionary work would be avoided, whilst the cost would be considerably reduced’. The fact that such bombardment would inevitably kill noncombatants was more than compensated by the reduction in troop casualties and the comparative cheapness of the use of air power. And this seemed to be […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
[PDF file]: […] the defence industry (London: Sphere Books, 1990) p. 191 9 Perhaps, we may then speculate, that Dr Kelly also used ‘his exceptional powers of scientific understanding’ to kill himself by using his weak right arm to sever the ulnar artery, one which rarely permits sufficient bleeding to cause death. Would a scientist with equally […]