Nixon: You may not have read about the time he told a dinner party at the White House, “I could leave this room, and in 25 minutes, 70 million people would be dead”

American Presidents, eh?

Nuclear weapons: How Cold War major Harold Hering asked a forbidden question that cost him his career

https://slate.com/human-interest/2011/02/nuclear-weapons-how-cold-war-major-harold-hering-asked-a-forbidden-question-that-cost-him-his-career.html

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How Cold War Maj. Harold Hering Asked a Forbidden Question That Cost Him His Career

It was a risk. Dedicating a book to someone I'd had had a five-minute phone conversation with three decades ago. Someone who, last I'd heard, had...

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