Jansen and Stone bobbed up and down in their small boat just offshore from The Headlands Nuclear Power Plant, making every effort to look like they were fishing instead of making plans to seize control of the plant. With help from an inside source, they steal a confidential security report, and then use it to infiltrate and take over the plant. Nick Connor, ex-Green Beret, now security specialist, must develop an impossible strategy to break in and take back the world's most secure nuclear...

The USS Batfish, the meanest nuclear fast attack submarine ever built, sits on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, deserted, but still operational—20 years after her decommissioning. The President sends Nick Connor, ex-Green Beret, to find and board the ghost ship and retrieve information that could explain it's existence, while helping expose a powerful Washington cartel, trying to keep it secret.On March 17, 1978, somewhere above the Arctic Circle, the USS Batfish, outfitted with t...

17 minutes and 40 seconds was enough time to avert the disaster at the nuclear plant. But the control room supervisor hesitated to do what he felt was right, then had to watch in horror as the control rods locked in place before they were inserted, rendering them useless. The power surged, resulting in a series of explosions of unimaginable power and destruction, with temperatures half as hot as surface of the sun, igniting the nuclear fuel, causing it to burn uncontrollably, melting itsel...

The revolutions in Eastern Europe and the recasting of socialism in Western Europe since 1989 have given rise to intense debate over the origins, character, and implications of the “crisis” of socialism. Is socialism in ideological, electoral, or organizational decline? Is the decline inevitable or can socialism be revitalized? This volume draws together historians and political scientists of Eastern and Western European politics to address these questions.The collection begins with...