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Do you remember this scene from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade? Indy has gone to rescue his father Henry who is being held captive by the Nazis at the Castle of Brunwald. The rescue has not gone well and now Indy has also been captured. The Nazis want Henry’s Grail Diary which contains vital clues to the whereabouts of the Holy Grail and which Henry has mailed to Indy for safe-keeping. If the Nazis get their hands on the Grail, in the words of Henry, ‘the armies of darkness will march all over the face of the earth’…

SS OFFICER: I will take the book now.

INDY/HENRY: (simultaneously) What book?

SS OFFICER (to INDY): You have the Diary in your pocket.

HENRY laughs genuinely, believing himself to be laughing at the expense of the
SS OFFICER.

HENRY: You dolt! Do you think that my son would be that stupid that he would bring my Diary all the way back here?

At which point an awful thought strikes HENRY.

HENRY: You didn't, did you? You didn't bring it, did you?

INDY: Well, uh...

HENRY: You did!!

INDY: Look, can we discuss this later?

HENRY: I should have mailed it to the Marx Brothers.

It’s a great scene, isn’t it? Not sure what made us think of it. Anyway, in other news

The [US] federal government mistakenly made public a 266-page report, its pages marked “highly confidential,” that gives detailed information about hundreds of the nation’s civilian nuclear sites and programs, including maps showing the precise locations of stockpiles of fuel for nuclear weapons.

Oh yes, that’s what made us think of it.