Craig Nelson > Quotes

“Three years before Manya’s birth, Polish nationalists waged revolutionary assaults against the Russian colonial authorities and were defeated. Tens of thousands were interned in Siberian slave-labor camps; hundreds of thousands fled to live in exile, and the rulers began a program of “Russification.”
― Craig Nelson, The Age of Radiance: The Epic Rise and Dramatic Fall of the Atomic Era

“Given surgery at an army hospital, Tojo recovered and was detained at Sugamo Prison, where he was also given a new set of dentures. The American dentist who cast them arranged for “Remember Pearl Harbor” to be written on his teeth in Morse code.”
― Craig Nelson, Pearl Harbor: From Infamy to Greatness

“Five decades after December 7 and eight years before 9/11, Central Intelligence Agency analyst A. R. Northridge summarized these attitudes in a September 22, 1993, Pearl Harbor report: “It seems clear to me that we failed to foresee the Japanese assault largely because we were influenced by a faulty stereotype of what was an adversary nation.”
― Craig Nelson, Pearl Harbor: From Infamy to Greatness

“A significant element in the surprise at Pearl Harbor was the great number of Americans who couldn’t conceive of Japan successfully attacking the United States. The most influential Asianist in the American State Department was a man who’d spent five years teaching in China before being named consul general to a city at the heart of Japanese aggression: Mukden. Stanley Hornbeck insisted that no matter what Washington demanded of Tokyo, the timid Japanese would never attack.”
― Craig Nelson, Pearl Harbor: From Infamy to Greatness