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How do you bomb a nation into the Stone Age when, in modern industrial terms, they are not that far removed from it?
“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.”
― Nixonland: America's Second Civil War and the Divisive Legacy of Richard Nixon 1965-72
― Nixonland: America's Second Civil War and the Divisive Legacy of Richard Nixon 1965-72
“To give advice to a tyrant was to suggest his fallibility and offer oneself as a scapegoat should things go wrong.”
― Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal
― Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal
“Guess how many nuclear missiles were detonated during the Cuban Missile Crisis?”
― The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency
― The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency
“All disarmament plans had been buried.”
― Russia at War, 1941–1945: A History
― Russia at War, 1941–1945: A History
“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.”
― Atomic Accidents
― Atomic Accidents
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