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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| aaed902 | The smallest attack option would hit the Soviet Union with almost two thousand weapons; the largest with more than three thousand. The vast scale and inflexibility of the SIOP led Kissinger to describe it as a "horror strategy." | Eric Schlosser | ||
| 8fd133e | A nation which is ignorant of its history cannot properly make choices about its future. | Alex Salmond | ||
| 7f16764 | During the same week that Kennedy appealed for an end to the arms race at the United Nations, he met with a handful of military advisers at the White House to discuss launching a surprise attack on the Soviet Union. General Thomas Power encouraged him to do it. According to notes of the meeting, held on September 20, Power warned that the United States now faced the greatest danger, ever, of a Soviet nuclear attack. | Eric Schlosser | ||
| a8a9454 | The fallibility of human beings guarantees that no technological system will ever be infallible. | Eric Schlosser | ||
| dacb24c | General Electric backed the Carousel of Progress, which featured an Audio-Animatronic housewife, standing in her futuristic kitchen, singing about "a great big beautiful tomorrow." | Eric Schlosser | ||
| 47e57ff | American tanks were sent to Checkpoint Charlie as a show of strength. Soviet tanks appeared there at about five in the evening on the twenty-seventh. The British soon deployed two antitank guns to support the Americans, while all the French troops in West Berlin remained safely in their barracks. For | Eric Schlosser | ||
| 1747885 | In the early days of the project, Teller was concerned that the intense heat of a nuclear explosion would set fire to the atmosphere and kill every living thing on earth. A | Eric Schlosser | ||
| 0704f3c | Support for a first strike extended far beyond the upper ranks of the U.S. military. Bertrand Russell--the British philosopher and pacifist, imprisoned for his opposition to the First World War--urged the western democracies to attack the Soviet Union before it got an atomic bomb. Russell acknowledged that a nuclear strike on the Soviets would be horrible, but "anything is better than submission." Winston Churchill agreed, proposing that th.. | nuclear-weapons winston-churchill | Eric Schlosser | |
| df32dd5 | Moser was a great believer in checklists. | Eric Schlosser | ||
| 045591e | Captain Barry steered the plane back toward land and ordered the crew to bail out. One of the copilots, Captain Theodore Schreier, mistakenly put on a life jacket over his parachute. He was never seen again. The | Eric Schlosser | ||
| 2a40ebc | The federal government has the legal authority to recall a defective toaster oven or stuffed animal--but still lacks the power to recall tons of contaminated, potentially lethal meat. | Eric Schlosser | ||
| bb53173 | Unlike other commodities, however, fast food isn't viewed, read, played, or worn. It enters the body and becomes part of the consumer. No other industry offers, both literally and figuratively, so much insight into the nature of mass consumption. | Eric Schlosser | ||
| acb4de1 | Sides of beef suspended from an overhead trolley swing toward a group of men. Each worker has a large knife in one hand and a steel hook in the other. They grab the meat with their hooks and attack it fiercely with their knives. As they hack away, using all their strength, grunting, the place suddenly feels different, primordial. The machinery seems beside the point, and what's going on before me has been going on for thousands of years--th.. | Eric Schlosser | ||
| 6d8ed05 | A nationwide study published by the USDA in 1996 found that 7.5 percent of the ground beef samples taken at processing plants were contaminated with Salmonella, 11.7 percent were contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, 30 percent were contaminated with Staphylococcus aureus, and 53.3 percent were contaminated with Clostridium perfringens. | Eric Schlosser | ||
| 3033f07 | Health officials soon traced the outbreak of food poisoning to undercooked hamburgers served at local Jack in the Box restaurants. Tests of the hamburger patties disclosed the presence of E. coli 0157:H7. Jack in the Box issued an immediate recall of the contaminated ground beef, which had been supplied by the Vons Companies, Inc., in Arcadia, California. Nevertheless, more than seven hundred people in at least four states were sickened by .. | Eric Schlosser | ||
| 29bf2ea | Nineteen members of an Army detachment were arrested on pot charges at a Nike Hercules base on Mount Gleason, overlooking Los Angeles. One of them had been caught drying a large amount of marijuana on land belonging to the U.S. Forest Service. Three enlisted men at a Nike Hercules base in San Rafael, California, were removed from guard duty for psychiatric reasons. One of them had been charged with pointing a loaded rifle at the head of a s.. | Eric Schlosser | ||
| ba62238 | The Scots were thus truly a chosen people, highly favoured of the Lord! | Alex Salmond | ||
| 705c2a7 | One historian has described the federal government's 1950s highway-building binge as a case study in "interstate socialism"--" | Eric Schlosser | ||
| 75b64b7 | Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation. | Scott McKain | ||
| c4ff7de | For more than forty years, efforts to tame the SIOP, to limit it, reduce it, make it appear logical and reasonable, had failed. "With the possible exception of the Soviet nuclear war plan, this was the single most absurd and irresponsible document I had ever reviewed in my life," General Butler later recalled. "I came to fully appreciate the truth ... we escaped the Cold War without a nuclear holocaust by some combination of skill, luck, an.. | Eric Schlosser | ||
| 28207cf | A poor grasp of dead reckoning may have led Christopher Columbus to North America instead of India, a navigational error of about eight thousand miles. | dead-reckoning editor gaffs navigation | Eric Schlosser | |
| 2ecfe1f | And the secrets of the Titan II had recently been compromised. Christopher M. Cooke, a young deputy commander at a Titan II complex in Kansas, had been arrested after making three unauthorized visits and multiple phone calls to the Soviet embassy in Washington, D.C. Inexplicably, Cooke had been allowed to serve as a Titan II officer on alerts for five months after his first contact with the Soviet embassy was detected. An Air Force memo lat.. | Eric Schlosser | ||
| a32f528 | Thomas K. Jones, an undersecretary of defense, played down the number of casualties that a nuclear war might cause, arguing that families would survive if they dug a hole, covered it with a couple of doors, and put three feet of dirt on top. "It's the dirt that does it," Jones explained. "Everyone's going to make it if there are enough shovels to go around." | Eric Schlosser | ||
| 1aa5ea8 | A few weeks later alarms went off in an air defense bunker south of Moscow. A Soviet early-warning satellite had detected five Minuteman missiles approaching from the United States. The commanding officer on duty, Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov, tried to make sense of the warning. An American first strike would surely involve more than five missiles--but perhaps this was merely the first wave. The Soviet general staff was alerted, and .. | Eric Schlosser | ||
| 88aac06 | Stan Spray, a Sandia engineer who burned, crushed, and routinely tortured nuclear weapon components to discover their flaws | Eric Schlosser | ||
| 4eb6a7b | Democrats in Congress whipped up fears of Soviet missiles and attacked the Eisenhower administration for allowing the United States to fall behind. The | Eric Schlosser | ||
| afc2562 | Walter Junior, were in the toolshed outside their home in Mars Bluff, South Carolina, when a Mark 6 atomic bomb landed in the yard. Mrs. | Eric Schlosser | ||
| 7dd134a | into a passion and beat and kicked her, she looked only | Frances Hodgson Burnett | ||
| c11a73f | I want to see Scotland at the heart of Europe's energy policy and future. | Alex Salmond | ||
| e8592f6 | I bet it's scary sometimes, traveling in a new place. But you take along maps and a cell phone, and you know help is there if you need it. --IB | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| 7a8273c | Tomorrow is a new day. I want you to be here for it. Please let someone help you. | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| 0ca17fb | Lunch can wait. Everything can wait. Time to run. | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| 6de8c6a | Three boys. Three deaths. One school. We've made the national news. Is out school cursed? Are we a reckless bunch of fools? The media asks questions no one can answer. Kids can't stop crying. | loss prose | Lisa Schroeder | |
| 7c3fd00 | After Lucca died, everything shut down. I couldn't eat. I couldn't sleep. I couldn't talk. Somehow they got me on the plane and back home. | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| 4e12e11 | Ill lose myself in the pain. It might not make sense. But it works. | running | Lisa Schroeder | |
| bc50156 | It's hard to be happy in the now when you can't stop worrying about the future. What I want is to trust that everything will work out. To believe with all my heart that I'll end up where I belong. | future happy inspirational | Lisa Schroeder | |
| 9ece400 | There is something so comforting, so soothing about a mug of hot chocolate. No matter how old I am, I think chocolat chaud will always have the ability to take me back to special times, when all of the world's problems seemed to melt away by consuming one simple beverage. | simple-pleasures | Lisa Schroeder | |
| 8851045 | Cling tightly to hope, just as you have in the past, my dear. Evil can't rule forever. I truly believe that. | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| 959b632 | Then she said good night and headed to her room. | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| ce61017 | There are so many places I want to visit. When I'm a flight attendant, I can visit the Grand Canyon one day and be in Hawaii the next. I can't imagine a more perfect job. --IB We | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| a2e4aee | The walls flickered in the candlelight. The room felt close and warm, like an underground sanctuary. | Barry Eisler | ||
| d072ada | Food brings people together. All over the world, people gather together and eat. In America, churches have potlucks and neighborhoods have barbecues. I like that about America. --IB My | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| 2765da4 | Some mornings, it's hard to get out of bed. Sleep lures you like a stranger with a piece of candy. Follow me. It will be okay. I promise. You know better, but still you follow, because you really do love candy. When you finally open your eyes, late for everything and your whole day screwed, you curse that bastard, Mr. Sandman -Amber | Lisa Schroeder | ||
| aeaa005 | Anticipation is the best alarm there is... -Amber | Lisa Schroeder |