“After a week he was moved to a different wing and into a shared six-by-eight with a grizzled old con called Alf. He had faded tattoos that stained most of the visible skin on his hands, arms and neck a dull blue, sharp eyes and a thick beard that made his mouth look like an axe wound on a bear.”
― The Zombie Room
― The Zombie Room
“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.”
― Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
― Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
“You must enjoy the time and make the most of the experience because time slips away and before you realize it your youth has passed, and you are old.”
― The Voyeur's Yacht
― The Voyeur's Yacht
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