This kind of overconfidence can lead to disasters, such as with the Chernobyl disaster (the Ukrainian Minister of Power stated the odds of a meltdown were 1 in 10, 000 just two months before the meltdown), the Challenger (NASA estimated the odds of catastrophic failure as 1 in 100, 000), or Pearl Harbor (the American military believed that Pearl Harbor was virtually immune to attack).
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Little-known detail of the battle: The Japanese sent out five small subs that were supposed to penetrate Pearl Harbor before the air attack and join in once the planes arrived.
The radar detected the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, although the military failed to react.
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America's first formal dog-procurement program began following the attack on Pearl Harbor.
They married on December 31, 1942, just about a year after the attack on Pearl Harbor that drew the United States into World War II.
That tumultuous time between the invasion of Poland and the attack on Pearl Harbor gave rise to a conflict at home that pitted isolationists against interventionists.
But, according to an Army history, the Navy was still in shambles after the December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, and no ships were capable of bringing reinforcements.
Rather than the deterrent effect expected from IW (much as the Japanese planners of the surprise attack against Pearl Harbor had hoped), a reckless application of information operations could provoke massive retaliation.
The population of the United States has more than doubled since the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, but the number of licensed drinking establishments has shrunk by as much as two-thirds.
He had joined the service after graduating from high school during the Great Depression and had been discharged in 1941, but re-enlisted after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor launched the United States into World War II.
The Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, on December 7, 1941, was a violent shock, but only in the nature and extent of the destruction: by then, most Americans had come to believe that the country would be dragged into the global war with Fascism one way or another, though their eyes were fixed on Europe, not the Pacific.
He reminded the cadets the surprise attack by Japan on Pearl Harbor in 1941 sparked dramatic changes in the military and the September 11 attacks have done the same.
Nearly 10 years ago, America suffered the worst attack on our shores since Pearl Harbor.
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