Pearl Harbor
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“The U.S. is absolutely vulnerable to a Pearl Harbor in space,” this person told me.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
Unlike the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, the intent was unclear and the enemy was stateless.
From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026
Raymond Lewis was in the ninth grade in Clarksdale, Miss., when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Franklin D. Roosevelt after Pearl Harbor, Lyndon B. Johnson after the Gulf of Tonkin and George W. Bush after 9/11 all sought congressional approval for war or wider military action.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Following the December 7, 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, some 120,000 people of Japanese descent, almost all of whom were loyal American citizens, were placed in “war relocation camps.”
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
