Jason Hunn > Jason's Quotes

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Apart from the risk in the blackout of walking into a lamp-post, the greatest danger was being run down by a motorcar. In London, over 2,000 pedestrians were killed in the last four months of 1939.”
― Antony Beevor, The Second World War

“All disarmament plans had been buried.”
― Alexander Werth, Russia at War, 1941–1945: A History

“To give advice to a tyrant was to suggest his fallibility and offer oneself as a scapegoat should things go wrong.”
― James D. Hornfischer, Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal

“the thirty-eighth parallel, selected by the Americans and the Russians back in 1945 as the dividing line between the two Koreas, as a border at all.”
― David Halberstam, The Coldest Winter

“the rights of free speech and free press do not carry with them the right to advocate the destruction of the very government which protects the freedom of an individual to express his views.”
― Rick Perlstein, Nixonland: America's Second Civil War and the Divisive Legacy of Richard Nixon 1965-72

“For some reason, a cache of thousands of rusting, leaking poisonous nerve-gas cylinders in Aniston, Alabama, does not scare anyone, but the suggestion of fission products stored a mile underground at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, causes great concern.”
― James Maheffey, Atomic Accidents

“Guess how many nuclear missiles were detonated during the Cuban Missile Crisis?”
― Annie Jacobsen, The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency