You'll kill 60,000 people uselessly.

Hah. American motorists kill that many every two years.

Yes, well, I've worked out a few statistics of my own. 15 billion dollars in gold bullion weighs 10,500 tons. Sixty men would take twelve days to load it onto 200 trucks. Now, at the most, you're going to have two hours before the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines move in and make you put it back.

Who mentioned anything about removing it? [Bond goes silent] The julep tart enough for you?

You plan to break into the world's largest bank, but not to steal anything. Why?

Go on, Mr. Bond.

[Thinking]

Mr. Ling, the Red Chinese agent at the factory, he's a specialist in nuclear fission... but of course! His government's given you a bomb.

I prefer to call it an "atomic device." It's small, but particularly dirty.

Cobalt and iodine?

Precisely.

Well, if you explode it in Fort Knox, the... the entire gold supply of the United States would be radioactive for... fifty-seven years.

Fifty-eight, to be exact.

I apologize, Goldfinger. It's an inspired deal! They get what they want: economic chaos in the West. And the value of your gold increases many times.

I conservatively estimate, ten times.

Brilliant.