“The Soviets were worried that the Americans would attack their "sparkling new Mir space station, ... in a space shuttle, throw out grappling hooks, forcibly board the peaceful habitat and claim it as captured territory. To the hard-core Soviet mind-set, the American government was an unstable combination of cowboys and gangsters, unpredictable and capable of any insane action. The cosmonauts would have to be armed against outrageous aggression.” Cold WarParanoiaGangstersPiratesSpace ProgramCowboysRussians Book:Atomic Adventures: Secret Islands, Forgotten N-Rays, and Isotopic Murder Source: Atomic Adventures: Secret Islands, Forgotten N-Rays, and Isotopic Murder
“It's a good thing we won the war. If we hadn't, I'd be hanged as a war criminal" -- Gen Curtis LeMay, quoted by Mahaffey, p.231 On March 10, 1945, LeMay's XXI Bomber Command sent 334 B-29's to Tokyo, loaded with 1,669 tons of incendiary bombs. The resulting firestorm killed over 100,000 Japanese and injured over a million. A quarter of the industrial production in Tokyo was destroyed. (p.232, paraphrased) The atomic bombing of Hiroshima, on August 6, 1945, killed around 120,000 Japanese. (Wikipedia)” World War 2War CriminalIncendiaryCurtis Lemay Book:Atomic Adventures: Secret Islands, Forgotten N-Rays, and Isotopic Murder Source: Atomic Adventures: Secret Islands, Forgotten N-Rays, and Isotopic Murder