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“On November 5, to kick off the final, coordinated assault on Baluch, Stu Mansfield, positioned with Atta at the warlord’s mountaintop compound, ordered the…

— Doug Stanton

“In Nevada, at Frenchman’s Flat, a bright flash and ugly mushroom cloud had signified a gigantic change in the tactical battlefield—a change that had…

— T.R. Fehrenbach

The more innocuous the name of a weapon, the more hideous its impact. Some of the most horrific weapons of the Vietnam era were…

— Paul Dickson

The more innocuous the name of a weapon, the more hideous its impact. Some of the most horrific weapons of the Vietnam era were…

— Paul Dickson

“On October 30, 1961, the Soviet Union detonated the largest, most powerful nuclear weapon the world had ever known. Called the Tsar Bomba, the…

— Annie Jacobsen

My dad was a kind of Kimbo Slice-type street fighter. He'd go out in the backyards up and down the Gulf Coast and duke…

— Keith Thurman

“preemptive strike n. A blow or punch delivered by military aircraft to a target who is suspected of being adverse to one's plot for…

— Leslie Starr O'Hara

“Meanwhile, in another example of the ineffectiveness of high altitude level bombing at sea, Hornet’s planes had to fly through a curtain of bombs…

— Charles River Editors

Voldemort’s fury at the fall of his last, best lieutenant exploded with the force of a bomb.

— Anonymous

During the Vietnam War, which lasted longer than any war we've ever been in - and which we lost - every respectable artist in…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Hiroshima. So I’ve got to put something about it in my book. From the official Air Force standpoint, it’ll all be new.” “Why would…

— Kurt Vonnegut