The team of physicists was investigating the possibility of using radioactive decay rates to generate random numbers, since the rate is constant but the emission of individual atoms is unpredictable, itseemed like a perfect fit.
With thousands of warheads in the Russian arsenal and only a handful required to cause unprecedented destruction, itseemed impossible to develop the kind of near-perfect defenses required to mitigate the effects of a nuclear attack.
"London, itseemed to me, was always going to be the perfect city for such an unprecedented coming together, " Armitage has said in a book accompanying the Parnassus.