Nuclear Warfare category: 350 books
by Sadako Okuda, Pamela B. Vergun
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Sadako Okuda was a sewing teacher on a small island some 35 miles outside of Hiroshima when the atomic bomb was dropped in 1945. Even at that distance, her vision and hearing on her right side were permanently damaged.At the heart of A Dimly Burning Wick is her searing diary recording the final moments...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction.
The proliferation of emerging and disruptive technologies such as additive manufacturing continues unabated. Such trends vastly increase the likelihood of a pernicious non-state actor...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this volume contains the Summary Reports (Europe and the Pacific) of the strategic bombing surveys conducted as World War II was coming to a close. Although originally published over four decades ago, and now reprinted...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2012
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this Army Field Manual serves as the foundation for Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)-Civil Support Team (CST) doctrine and focuses on the organization, mission, command and control (C2), and operations of the WMD-CST....
Reflections:
Memories of Sacrifices Shared and Comrades Lost in the Line of Duty
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
About Reflections Reflections is a memoir of the Vietnam War. The book paints a picture of the sacrifices of Vietnam veterans and the vilification they endured. The book is also a tribute to Colonel George S. Patton III, who was a marvelous mentor and an inspirational leader. He was a tactical genius...
CODENAME CHEROKEE
An excerpt from the bestselling memoir, THE ATOMIC TIMES
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
CODENAME CHEROKEE
(A 1500 word excerpt from THE ATOMIC TIMES: My H-Bomb Year at the Pacific Proving Ground)
Cherokee was the second of 17 nuclear blasts in the 1956 United States H-bomb test series, Operation Redwing. Cherokee was typical of what happened in the South Pacific when over 1600...
Racing for the Bomb
The True Story of General Leslie R. Groves, the Man behind the Birth of the Atomic Age
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
The untold story of the career officer in the Army Corps of Engineers who oversaw the Manhattan Project and the creation of the atomic bomb.
The Manhattan Project was the most secretive government project the United States had ever undertaken, and would prove to be one of the most consequential...
by H. G. Wells
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2019
The World Set Free is a series of three fantasias of possibility, stories which all turn on the possible developments in the future of some contemporary force or group of forces. The World Set Free was written under the immediate shadow of the Great War. Every intelligent person in the world felt...
High Noon in the Cold War
Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Cuban Missile Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2004
One of the giants of American journalism now re-creates an unforgettable time–in which the whole world feared extinction. High Noon in the Cold War captures the Cuban Missile Crisis in a new light, from inside the hearts and minds of the famous men who provoked and, in the nick of time, resolved...
Raised in the Shadow of the Bomb
Children of the Manhattan Project
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
This story began before I was born, when my father, Ellis P. Steinberg, and uncle Bernard Abraham worked on the secret undertaking that developed the first atomic bombs. These later were dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was not only my extended nuclear family that experienced and was affected...
The Dead Hand
The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
The first full account of how the Cold War arms race finally came to a close, this riveting narrative history sheds new light on the people who struggled to end this era of massive overkill, and examines the legacy of the nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons...
109 East Palace
Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
From the bestselling author of Tuxedo Park, the fascinating story of the 3,000 people who lived together in near confinement for more than two intense and conflicted years under J. Robert Oppenheimer and the world's best scientists to produce the Atomic Bomb and win World War II.
They were...
The Vast Unknown
America's First Ascent of Everest
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
By the author of the New York Times bestselling Everest: Mountain Without Mercy, this chronicle of the iconic first American expedition to Mt. Everest in May 1963 – published to coincide with the climb's 50th anniversary – combines riveting adventure, a perceptive analysis of its dark and terrifying...
Three Days in Moscow
Ronald Reagan and the Fall of the Soviet Empire
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Get the perfect gift for Dad this Father's Day: President Reagan's dramatic battle to win the Cold War is revealed as never before by the #1 bestselling author and award-winning anchor of the #1 rated Special Report with Bret Baier.
"An instant classic, if not the finest book to date...