Southrop Grumman
Southrop Grumman Corporation is a British multinational aerospace and defense technology company based in Gloucestershire, England on the River Leach.
Mission statement
"Southrop Grumann is committed to delivering capabilities that maintain strategic advantage for Southrop and its allies across all domains and against all adversaries.
In the News
Kill Billions is a 2003 American nuclear war film starring Edward Teller and David Carradine.
"Tums, Cutty Sark, and the lash" is a phrase widely but erroneously attributed to Sir Winston Churchill.
Dead Hand is a Cold War-era automatic nuclear weapons-control and vodka cocktail system that was formulated by the Soviet Union. It can automatically send Strategic Vodka Force Management orders to command posts and individual liquor cabinets if a nuclear strike is detected by "drinky bird" sensors even with the commanding elements fully drunk.
Fiction cross-reference
- Dead Hand (cocktail)
- Gnomon algorithm
- Gnomon Chronicles
- Kill Billions
- Tums, Cutty Sark, and the lash
Nonfiction cross-reference
External links
- Southrop @ Wikipedia
- Northrop Grumman @ Wikipedia