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Bear’s Aggression, The

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Sir, It's the Russian Commandant. Hello Mr President." So nice to hear your voice. I must say you were right to try, but too late.THIS IS YOUR FAULT!Go ON, Take that Poll! Ask your people, and tell them it was the right thing to do. ... Read more

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Sir, It's the Russian Commandant. Hello Mr President." So nice to hear your voice. I must say you were right to try, but too late.THIS IS YOUR FAULT!Go ON, Take that Poll! Ask your people, and tell them it was the right thing to do.
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How to Survive Anything: From the Wilderness to Man Made Disasters

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I recently wrote a book titled “33 Incredible Real Life Survival Stories” which caused me to be amazed at how people have the persistence to live when confronted by dangerous and deadly situations. I’m an old student of survival. First in my experiences with the Boy Scouts, and then my experiences as an adult backpacker and general sports activities..There are other books out there by Special ... Read more

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I recently wrote a book titled “33 Incredible Real Life Survival Stories” which caused me to be amazed at how people have the persistence to live when confronted by dangerous and deadly situations. I’m an old student of survival. First in my experiences with the Boy Scouts, and then my experiences as an adult backpacker and general sports activities..There are other books out there by Special
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V-Bombers

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by Dr. Tony Redding ...

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This is the story of a British deterrent. Much has been written about the V-bombers—the Valiant, Victor, and Vulcan—but virtually nothing has been said about their strategic nuclear strike role. How would Britain's small force of subsonic bombers have retaliated following a Soviet attack, and would they have succeeded?This book is the product of seven years of research by Dr. Tony Redding. It ... Read more

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Tuxedo Park

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Den Kolde Krig - Den sino-sovjetiske konflikt

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I begyndelsen af marts 1969 var situationen spændt i de sovjetiske styrker. De var klar til når som helst at affyre deres atomvåben mod et mål 1.600 kilometer væk. Mens resten af verden fokuserede på magtkampen mellem øst og vest, var der opstået en bitter konflikt mellem Kina og Sovjetunionen, og selvom de to supermagter udadtil var allierede, var virkeligheden på mange punkter en helt anden ... Read more

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I begyndelsen af marts 1969 var situationen spændt i de sovjetiske styrker. De var klar til når som helst at affyre deres atomvåben mod et mål 1.600 kilometer væk. Mens resten af verden fokuserede på magtkampen mellem øst og vest, var der opstået en bitter konflikt mellem Kina og Sovjetunionen, og selvom de to supermagter udadtil var allierede, var virkeligheden på mange punkter en helt anden
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Waging Just Wars: The Ethical and Legal Principles of Modern Warfare

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This is the story of Setsuko Nakamura Thurlow—a teenage girl living in Hiroshima in 1945, when the city was annihilated by an atomic bomb. Struggling with grief and anger, Thurlow set out to warn the world about the horrors of a nuclear attack in a crusade that has lasted decades. In 2015 Thurlow sparked a rallying cry for activists when she proclaimed at the United Nations, "Humanity and nuclear ... Read more

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This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.J. Robert Oppenheimer was a brilliant physicist best known for his role as the scientific leader of the Manhattan project, the secret program that developed the first atomic bombs during World War II. A highly intellectual and complex figure, Oppenheimer combined deep knowledge of physics with strong philosophical curiosity. Under his leadership at Los ... Read more

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The Children of Hiroshima

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The Missile Next Door

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Between 1961 and 1967 the United States Air Force buried one thousand Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missiles in pastures across the Great Plains. The Missile Next Door tells the story of how rural Americans of all political stripes were drafted to fight the Cold War by living with nuclear missiles in their backyards—and what that story tells us about enduring political divides and the ... Read more

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Between 1961 and 1967 the United States Air Force buried one thousand Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missiles in pastures across the Great Plains. The Missile Next Door tells the story of how rural Americans of all political stripes were drafted to fight the Cold War by living with nuclear missiles in their backyards—and what that story tells us about enduring political divides and the
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Burning the Sky

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by Mark Wolverton ...

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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

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The End is Always Near

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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

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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
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Three Days in January

Dwight Eisenhower's Final Mission

by Bret Baier, Catherine Whitney ...

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10 hours 34 min

The blockbuster #1 national bestsellerBret Baier, the Chief Political Anchor for Fox News Channel and the Anchor and Executive Editor of Special Report with Bret Baier, illuminates the extraordinary yet underappreciated presidency of Dwight Eisenhower by taking readers into Ike’s last days in power.“Magnificently rendered. … Destined to take its place as not only one of the masterworks on ... Read more

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The blockbuster #1 national bestsellerBret Baier, the Chief Political Anchor for Fox News Channel and the Anchor and Executive Editor of Special Report with Bret Baier, illuminates the extraordinary yet underappreciated presidency of Dwight Eisenhower by taking readers into Ike’s last days in power.“Magnificently rendered. … Destined to take its place as not only one of the masterworks on
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The Great Halifax Explosion

A World War I Story of Treachery, Tragedy, and Extraordinary Heroism

by John U. Bacon ...

Narrated by Johnny Heller ...

Unabridged

10 hours 38 min

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * by the author ofThe Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund FitzgeraldRead by award winning narrator, Johnny Heller, whose performance brings this dramatic event to life.The "riveting" (National Post) tick-tock account of the largest manmade explosion in history prior to the atomic bomb, and the equally astonishing tales of survival and heroism that emerged from the ... Read more

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER * by the author ofThe Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund FitzgeraldRead by award winning narrator, Johnny Heller, whose performance brings this dramatic event to life.The "riveting" (National Post) tick-tock account of the largest manmade explosion in history prior to the atomic bomb, and the equally astonishing tales of survival and heroism that emerged from the
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Un demi-Siècle au bord du gouffre atomique

by Jean-François Bouchard ...

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Unabridged

13 hours 28 min

Depuis les années 1950, plus d’une vingtaine de crises mondiales ont failli dériver en guerres atomiques. Le livre raconte l’histoire de ces confrontations qui, par miracle, n’ont jamais abouti à l’utilisation de ces armes effrayantes. Un demi-siècle au bord du gouffre atomique est basé sur les documents de la CIA, de la Maison-Blanche et de la diplomatie américaine publiés par la N.S.A : une ... Read more

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Depuis les années 1950, plus d’une vingtaine de crises mondiales ont failli dériver en guerres atomiques. Le livre raconte l’histoire de ces confrontations qui, par miracle, n’ont jamais abouti à l’utilisation de ces armes effrayantes. Un demi-siècle au bord du gouffre atomique est basé sur les documents de la CIA, de la Maison-Blanche et de la diplomatie américaine publiés par la N.S.A : une
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A World Destroyed

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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

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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
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Empire of Deterrence

Nuclear Weapons and the Containment of Politics

by Michael Gardiner ...

Narrated by Adrian Hobart ...

Unabridged

4 hours 39 min

This book considers nuclear deterrence as a form of authority. It describes the rise of deterrence in the Anglosphere particularly as the rule of economic law hardened to protect a civilization in its deterministic, automated phase. Nuclear deterrence has increasingly been leveraged against populations to smother politics and protect an absolute stasis with its heart in a cybernetics of human ... Read more

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This book considers nuclear deterrence as a form of authority. It describes the rise of deterrence in the Anglosphere particularly as the rule of economic law hardened to protect a civilization in its deterministic, automated phase. Nuclear deterrence has increasingly been leveraged against populations to smother politics and protect an absolute stasis with its heart in a cybernetics of human
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Strange Stability

How Cold War Scientists Set Out to Control the Arms Race and Ended Up Serving the Military-Industrial Complex

by Benjamin Wilson ...

Narrated by Tom Parks ...

Unabridged

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Do scientists speak truth to power? During the Cold War, a group of American strategists and science advisors claimed to do precisely that. Styling themselves as figures of rationality and restraint, they insisted that mutual assured destruction was the natural logic of the atomic age: as long as nuclear deterrence was credible, no one would ever shoot first. This doctrine, known as "strategic ... Read more

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Do scientists speak truth to power? During the Cold War, a group of American strategists and science advisors claimed to do precisely that. Styling themselves as figures of rationality and restraint, they insisted that mutual assured destruction was the natural logic of the atomic age: as long as nuclear deterrence was credible, no one would ever shoot first. This doctrine, known as "strategic
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Обратный отсчет: 116 дней до атомной бомбардировки Хиросимы

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9 hours 26 min

12 апреля 1945 года. После нескольких лет кровопролитного конфликта в Европе и на Тихом океане Америка ошеломлена известием о смерти президента Франклина Д. Рузвельта. В одно мгновение вице-президент Гарри Трумэн, который был отстранен от планирования войны и ничего не знал о сверхсекретном Манхэттенском проекте по разработке первой в мире атомной бомбы, должен принять на себя командование страной ... Read more

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12 апреля 1945 года. После нескольких лет кровопролитного конфликта в Европе и на Тихом океане Америка ошеломлена известием о смерти президента Франклина Д. Рузвельта. В одно мгновение вице-президент Гарри Трумэн, который был отстранен от планирования войны и ничего не знал о сверхсекретном Манхэттенском проекте по разработке первой в мире атомной бомбы, должен принять на себя командование страной
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Dark Sun

The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb

by Richard Rhodes ...

Narrated by Richard Rhodes ...

Abridged

6 hours

Here, for the first time, in a brilliant, panoramic portrait by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, is the definitive, often shocking story of the politics and the science behind the development of the hydrogen bomb and the birth of the Cold War.Based on secret files in the United States and the former Soviet Union, this monumental work of history discloses how and ... Read more

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Here, for the first time, in a brilliant, panoramic portrait by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, is the definitive, often shocking story of the politics and the science behind the development of the hydrogen bomb and the birth of the Cold War.Based on secret files in the United States and the former Soviet Union, this monumental work of history discloses how and
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Trinity

The Treachery and Pursuit of the Most Dangerous Spy in History

by Frank Close ...

Narrated by Anthony Howell ...

Unabridged

20 hours 56 min

Brought to you by Penguin.'Trinity' was the codename for the test explosion of the atomic bomb in New Mexico on 16 July 1945. This exceptional book - Trinity - tells the story of the bomb's metaphorical father, Rudolf Peierls; his intellectual son, the atomic spy, Klaus Fuchs, and the ghosts of the security services in Britain, the USA and USSR.Against the background of pre-war Nazi Germany, the ... Read more

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Brought to you by Penguin.'Trinity' was the codename for the test explosion of the atomic bomb in New Mexico on 16 July 1945. This exceptional book - Trinity - tells the story of the bomb's metaphorical father, Rudolf Peierls; his intellectual son, the atomic spy, Klaus Fuchs, and the ghosts of the security services in Britain, the USA and USSR.Against the background of pre-war Nazi Germany, the
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Jai Bharat Jai Jagat Bhag 1 - Anvastra

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अविनाश धर्माधिकारी यांचे गाजलेले व्याख्यान 'जय भारत जय जगत भाग १ -अण्वस्त्र ' ... Read more

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अविनाश धर्माधिकारी यांचे गाजलेले व्याख्यान 'जय भारत जय जगत भाग १ -अण्वस्त्र '
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Arsenals of Folly

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by Richard Rhodes ...

Narrated by Robertson Dean ...

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14 hours 12 min

From the Pulitzer Prize—winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb: the story of the entire postwar superpower arms race, climaxing during the Reagan-Gorbachev decade when the United States and the Soviet Union camewithin scant hours of nuclear war–and then nearly agreed to abolish nuclear weapons.In a narrative that moves like a thriller, Rhodes sheds light on the Reagan administration’s ... Read more

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From the Pulitzer Prize—winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb: the story of the entire postwar superpower arms race, climaxing during the Reagan-Gorbachev decade when the United States and the Soviet Union camewithin scant hours of nuclear war–and then nearly agreed to abolish nuclear weapons.In a narrative that moves like a thriller, Rhodes sheds light on the Reagan administration’s
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Tuxedo Park

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Waging Just Wars: The Ethical and Legal Principles of Modern Warfare

Curveball

90 Seconds to Midnight

J. Robert Oppenheimer: The Life and Legacy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Inside the Secret Race for the Atomic Bomb, the Brilliant Minds behind It, History’s Darkest)

The Children of Hiroshima

The Missile Next Door

Burning the Sky

The End is Always Near

Three Days in January

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A World Destroyed

Empire of Deterrence

Strange Stability

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