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Nuclear Warfare Audiobooks

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    One Minute to Midnight

    Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War

    by Michael Dobbs ...
    Narrated by Bob Walter ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 25 min

    In October 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union appeared to be sliding inexorably toward a nuclear conflict over the placement of missiles in Cuba. Veteran Washington Post reporter Michael Dobbs has pored over previously untapped American, Soviet, and Cuban sources to produce the most authoritative book yet on the Cuban missile crisis. In his hour-by-hour ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The End is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses

    by Dan Carlin ...
    Narrated by Dan Carlin ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 55 min

    THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERDo tough times create tougher people? Can humanity handle the power of its weapons without destroying itself? Will human technology ever peak or regress? And why, since the dawn of time, has it always seemed as though death and destruction are waiting just around the corner?Combining his trademark thrilling, expansive storytelling with rigorous history and thought ... Read more

    $31.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Midnight in Chernobyl

    The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

    by Adam Higginbotham ...
    Narrated by Jacques Roy ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 55 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.The dramatic untold story of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, based on original reporting and new archival research.Early in the morning of April 26, 1986, Reactor Number Four of the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station exploded, triggering history’s worst nuclear disaster. In the thirty years since then, Chernobyl has become lodged in the collective nightmares of ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Command and Control

    by Eric Schlosser ...
    Narrated by Scott Brick ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 33 min

    Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Command and Control, a ground-breaking account of the management of nuclear weapons from Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation. Read by the award-winning narrator Scott Brick.A ground-breaking account of accidents, near-misses, extraordinary heroism, and technological breakthroughs, Command and Control explores the dilemma ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Who Rules the World?

    by Noam Chomsky ...
    Narrated by Brian Jones ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 59 min

    The essential account of geopolitics right now, from one of our greatest living intellectuals - including a new afterword on President Donald TrumpNoam Chomsky: philosopher, political writer, fearless activist. No one has done more to question the hidden actors who govern our lives, calling the powers that be to account. Here he presents Who Rules the World?, his definitive account of those powers ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Chernobyl Prayer

    Penguin Modern Classics

    by Svetlana Alexievich ...
    Narrated by Andrew Byron, Sasha Alexis ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 18 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature- A new translation of Voices from Chernobyl based on the revised text -In April 1986 a series of explosions shook the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. Flames lit up the sky and radiation escaped to contaminate the land and poison the people for years to come. While officials tried to hush up the accident, Svetlana Alexievich spent years ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Safe: How to stay safe in a dangerous world

    Survival techniques for everyday life from an SAS hero

    by Chris Ryan ...
    Narrated by Michael Fenner ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 2 min

    How to keep you and yours safe from the perils of the modern world.In today's increasingly hostile climate people are anxious about how to keep themselves safe. Chris Ryan is an expert in dangerous situations and here he tells you how to keep yourself and your family safe from the perils of modern urban life. He leads you through a variety of situations including what to do if:- You are walking ... Read more

    $46.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Abyss: The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962

    by Max Hastings ...
    Narrated by John Hopkins ...

    Unabridged

    19 hours 12 min

    A Times History Book of the Year 2022 From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings ‘the heart-stopping story of the missile crisis’ Daily TelegraphThe 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was the most perilous event in history, when mankind faced a looming nuclear collision between the United States and Soviet Union. During those weeks, the world gazed into the abyss of potential annihilation.Max Hastings ... Read more

    $52.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Blown To Hell

    America's Deadly Betrayal of the Marshall Islanders

    by Walter Pincus ...
    Narrated by Chris Abernathy ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 53 min

    The most important place in American nuclear history are the Marshall Islands-an idyllic Pacific paradise that served as the staging ground for over sixty US nuclear tests. It was here, from 1946 to 1958, that America perfected the weapon that preserved the peace of the post-war years. It was here-with the 1954 Castle Bravo test over Bikini Atoll-that America executed its largest nuclear ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Atomic Doctors

    Conscience and Complicity at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age

    by James L. Nolan Jr. ...
    Narrated by Adam Lofbomm ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 9 min

    After his father died, James L. Nolan, Jr., took possession of a box of private family materials. To his surprise, the small secret archive contained a treasure trove of information about his grandfather's role as a doctor in the Manhattan Project. Dr. Nolan, it turned out, had been a significant figure. A talented ob-gyn radiologist, he cared for the scientists on the project, organized safety ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    On Nuclear Terrorism

    by Michael Levi ...
    Narrated by Mike Chamberlain ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 49 min

    Nuclear terrorism is such a disturbing prospect that we shy away from its details. Yet, as a consequence, we fail to understand how best to defeat it. Michael Levi takes us inside nuclear terrorism and behind the decisions a terrorist leader would be faced with in pursuing a nuclear plot. Along the way, Levi identifies the many obstacles, large and small, that such a terrorist scheme might ... Read more

    $24.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Rise of Nuclear Iran

    How Tehran Defies the West

    by Dore Gold ...
    Narrated by Tom Weiner ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 41 min

    Former UN Ambassador Dore Gold shows why engaging Iran through diplomacy is not only futile but also could be deadly.In the West, liberal politicians and pundits are calling for renewed diplomatic engagement with Iran, convinced that Tehran will respond to reason and halt its nuclear weapons program. Yet, countries have repeatedly tried diplomatic talks and utterly failed. In The Rise of Nuclear ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Hiroshima överlever

    by Monica Braw ...
    Narrated by Lars Winclair ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 16 min

    Aldrig tidigare i människans historia har en katastrof likt atombombningen av Hiroshima och Nagasaki inträffat. Händelsen förändrade hela världen, bilderna och berättelserna från överlevarna kom att chocka både sin samtid och framtid. Det finns inga fasta siffror på hur många som dog vid bombningarna, men man tror att över 200 000 personer mötte sin död i attackerna.Mot alla odds fanns det ... Read more

    $10.99 AUD

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    Attack Warning Red!

    How Britain Prepared for Nuclear War

    by Julie McDowall ...
    Narrated by Julie McDowall ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 10 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.There have been many histories of the Cold War but Attack Warning Red is the first book to tell the domestic story of day-to-day life on the nuclear home front.The dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 changed the nature of war forever. The awesome power of the atomic blast and its deadly fallout meant that nowhere was safe: every town, village, ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Licence Renewed

    A James Bond thriller

    by John Gardner ...
    Narrated by Jeremy Northam ...
    Audiobook 1 - John Gardner's Bond

    Unabridged

    9 hours 22 min

    The first of John Gardner's novels featuring Ian Fleming's secret agent.Bond has been assigned to investigate one Dr. Anton Murik, a brilliant nuclear physicist who is thought to have been meeting with a terrorist known as Franco. Together, they plan to hijack six nuclear power plants around the world and start a global meltdown, unless Bond can stop them...Read by Jeremy Northam(p) 2011 Orion ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Chemical Warrior

    Syria, Salisbury and Saving Lives at War

    by Hamish de Bretton-Gordon ...
    Narrated by Hamish de Bretton-Gordon ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 56 min

    GRIPPING, MOVING AND INSPIRING: the remarkable life of a world-leading expert in chemical weapons defence."His work has saved lives and given hope." - Professor David Nott, bestselling author of War DoctorFor thirty years, Hamish has served and volunteered in conflict zones around the world. As the army's foremost chemical weapons expert, he built a unique first-hand understanding of how to ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    A World Destroyed

    Hiroshima and Its Legacies

    by Martin J. Sherwin ...
    Narrated by John Lescault ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 58 min

    Continuously in demand since its first, prize-winning edition was published in 1973, this is the classic history of Hiroshima and the origins of the arms race, from the development of the American atomic bomb to the decision to use it against Japan and the beginnings of US atomic diplomacy toward the Soviet Union. In the introduction, the author describes and evaluates the lengthening trail of new ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Burning the Sky

    Operation Argus and the Untold Story of the Cold War Nuclear Tests in Outer Space

    by Mark Wolverton ...
    Narrated by John Lescault ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 6 min

    “Last September the United States drew a thin curtain of radiation around the earth…The feat was regarded by some of its leading participants as the greatest scientific experiment of all time.” ―Walter Sullivan, the New York Times, March 19, 1959After the Soviet Union proved to the United States that it possessed an operational intercontinental ballistic missile with the launch of Sputnik in ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Den Kolde Krig - Klimaet tøer op

    by Orage ...
    Narrated by Peter Milling ...
    series Den kolde krig

    Unabridged

    19 min

    Spændingerne under den kolde krig nåede sin kulmination med Cubakrisen, mens hele verden holdt vejret. Da krisen efter tretten nervepirrende dage endelig var overstået, forsøgte supermagterne sig med en ny strategi og et mål om fredelig sameksistens. Nedrustningen var begyndt.Denne artikel fortæller om den kolde krigs tøbrud i tiden efter Cubakrisen. DEN KOLDE KRIG er en serie om historiske ... Read more

    $3.99 AUD

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    The Button

    The New Nuclear Arms Race and Presidential Power from Truman to Trump

    by William J. Perry, Tom Z. Collina ...
    Narrated by John Pruden ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 43 min

    Since the Truman administration, America has been one "push of a button" away from nuclear war-a decision that rests solely in the hands of the president. Without waiting for approval from Congress or even the secretary of defense, the president can unleash America's entire nuclear arsenal. From authors William J. Perry, secretary of defense in the Clinton administration, and Tom Z. Collina, the ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Anden verdenskrig 1942-45 (Bind 2)

    by Aage Trommer ...
    Narrated by Niels Borup ...
    Audiobook 2 - Anden verdenskrig

    Unabridged

    1 hour 47 min

    "Anden verdenskrig 1942-45" er historiker Aage Trommers skildring af de tre sidste år af krigen. Bogen formidler overskueligt og præcist, hvordan krigen formede sig ved de mange fronter rundt omkring i verden, hvorfor Hitler til sidst måtte give fortabt, og hvilken betydning for krigens endelige afslutning atombombesprængningerne over Hiroshima og Nagasaki i august 1945 havde.Læs også "Anden ... Read more

    $8.99 AUD

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    The Bomb

    Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War

    by Fred Kaplan ...
    Narrated by Edward Bauer ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 14 min

    From the author of the classic The Wizards of Armageddon and Pulitzer Prize finalist comes the definitive history of American policy on nuclear war—and Presidents’ actions in nuclear crises—from Truman to Trump.Fred Kaplan, hailed by The New York Times as “a rare combination of defense intellectual and pugnacious reporter,” takes us into the White House Situation Room, the Joint Chiefs of Staff’s ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Euromissiles

    The Nuclear Weapons That Nearly Destroyed NATO

    by Susan Colbourn ...
    Narrated by Wendy Tremont King ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 13 min

    In the Cold War conflict that pitted nuclear superpowers against one another, Europe was the principal battleground. Washington and Moscow had troops on the ground and missiles in the fields of their respective allies, the NATO nations and the states of the Warsaw Pact. Euromissiles-intermediate-range nuclear weapons to be used exclusively in the regional theater of war==highlighted how the ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Black Sun

    Based on a true story, the critically acclaimed Soviet thriller

    by Owen Matthews ...
    Narrated by Mark Bramhall ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 54 min

    **'Outstanding' SUNDAY TIMES 'Crime Book of the Month''A stunning debut thriller . . . ferocious, authentic and utterly terrifying . . . absolutely riveting' DAILY MAILHidden deep within central Soviet Russia is a place that doesn’t appear on any map: a city called Arzamas-16. Here a community of dedicated scientists and technicians is building the most powerful nuclear device the world will ever ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial