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01 / uncertainty
“I don’t know the answer of why we had such massive redundancy in these nuclear weapons, why the arsenals were so massive.”
02 / uncertainty
“Mao goes there and kowtows in Moscow and does what Stalin wants him to do. That’s Stalin’s experience until he, I don’t know, chokes on his Cheerios or whatever happened to him that morning.”
03 / uncertainty
“With the Korean War going on and on, I don’t know what the implications are for us or for Mao.”
04 / uncertainty
“Then he's looking at it and I don't know the details of what his timeline is, whether he thinks it's just a delaying act.”
05 / uncertainty
“If the Russians had run one more battle against the Japanese, the Japanese supply lines would have collapsed. It's unclear how far down the Liaodong Peninsula they would have had to retreat.”
06 / uncertainty
“" Other people, it's like, oh, I don't know, I can't remember the words, like, I don't know, "contested ground," something else. But I'm guessing that when he chose those words, "death ground," it's because when he was thinking about it, it might well have conjured up his memories of what exactly it was like to be on Guadalcanal or New Georgia.”
07 / uncertainty
“I don't know the "because," but they had very limited numbers of people to deal with this.”
08 / uncertainty
“I don't know the answer, because I'm not a social historian where you would really be doing- I've always done more diplomatic and military, so you're looking top-down.”
09 / uncertainty
“I'm telling you, I suspect the outcome wouldn't have been better, but I don't know.”
10 / uncertainty
“I don't know. It's also because it’s becoming more and more authoritarian. Yeah, I have no idea on that subject.”
11 / uncertainty
“Another thing, when MacArthur does his Incheon landings, it's very tricky because the tides are, I don't know how many feet, like 30-foot tides.”
12 / uncertainty
“Think about low probability but high consequence events. I don't know what the probability is, but I know the consequences are huge.”
13 / uncertainty
“I don't know. But look at North Korea. Talk about a failed place. It's amazing to me how long the Kim dynasty has maintained its power.”
14 / uncertainty
“I don't know. I would imagine cooperative adversaries. China had been a failed state for such a long time.”
15 / uncertainty
“I don't know. But I think the people who are worried about that are the Vietnamese and the Indians, the people who are likely to meet them.”
16 / uncertainty
“I'm making this up because I don't know the details of China but if you think about Deng Xiaoping, he's on the long march, he's one of the younger members.”