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Oops. . . .
Forget to give this connecting thought: 
GR is about, mainly, the development of the delivery system
of "The Bomb".
AtD is about the theoretical development of "The Bomb" itself.

"As if parties to a secret whose terrible force was somehow,
conveniently, set to one side---as if to be encountered only in a 
companion world they did not quite know how to enter or, once 
there, to exit. Here in this sub-sea-level patch of strategic ground, 
hostage to European ambitions on all sides, waiting, held 
sleepless without remission, for the blows to descend. 
What better place for the keepers of the seals and codes to 
convene?"

What better place for the keepers of seals and codes?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trieste

By this placement in the book, Pynchon is pointing to
Trieste as a place of importance in the development
of the apocalypse machine. And if you note the history
and location of Treiste, it seems like the place where
a certain, very powerful, kind of sadness was born.
Along with nerd culture.