LOX

Contributed by: The James Bond Movie Encyclopedia by Steven Jay Rubin

Abbreviation for “liquid oxygen,” a rocket propellant featured in You Only Live Twice. At first, Japanese Secret Service Chief Tiger Tanaka (Tetsuro Tamba) thinks that the lox shipment identified on an invoiced order for naval stores is smoked salmon. Bond (Sean Connery) correctly identifies it as rocket fuel.

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