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  • NUKED: I Was A Guinea Pig For The U.S. Army

    by Michael Harris ...
    In 1956, the United States detonated 17 H-bombs in the South Pacific, including the two deadliest explosions ever to occur anywhere on our planet—before or since.The 1,612 soldiers stationed at the headquarters island (including me, a draftee) were sent there to “observe” this nuclear test series, named Operation Redwing. Wearing only T-shirts and shorts and without Radsuits, high density goggles ... Read more

    PHP187.60

  • CODENAME CHEROKEE

    An excerpt from the bestselling memoir, THE ATOMIC TIMES

    by Michael Harris ...
    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 men (including me) became guinea pigs for the Department of Defense. The unstated motto at the Pentagon was: ... Read more

    PHP49.99

  • Hiroshima

    by John Hersey ...
    Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author John Hersey's seminal work of narrative nonfiction which has defined the way we think about nuclear warfare. “One of the great classics of the war" (The New Republic) that tells what happened in Hiroshima during World War II through the memories of the survivors of the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a city."The perspective [Hiroshima] ... Read more

    PHP342.29

  • The Last Raid: How World War II Ended, August 1945

    by Daniel Ford ...
    While the Japanese war cabinet argued about whether to surrender, and on what terms, the U.S. Army Strategic Air Force on Guam and Tinian geared up for a thousand-plane raid upon the Empire. It would be the last air raid of the Second World War. This little book, which first appeared in Air & Space / Smithsonian magazine on the 50th anniversary of the war's end, tells the story of those momentous ... Read more

    PHP167.50

  • Empire of Deterrence

    Nuclear Weapons and the Containment of Politics

    by Michael Gardiner ...
    A nuclear-extinction unconscious has worked over the last 30 years to ‘automate’ much political thinking and recuperate it into individualist culture wars that reaffirming the extinction regimesEmpire of Deterrence reveals how nuclear strategy, once framed as a tool for security, has become an invisible but ever-present law — shaping the very foundations of political authority, economic order, and ... Read more

    PHP490.79

  • Remote Viewing the ISIS Apocalypse and other 21st Century Events

    by Washington Remote Viewing Group ...
    In the 21st century, ISIS will unleash several apocalyptic atrocities that will make 9/11 look like a Sunday picnic. These events will apparently happen despite the efforts of agencies such as the CIA, NSA, FBI, MI-5, MI-6 and the Department of Homeland Security.Remote viewing is the telepathic psychic ability to see future, past and present events, objects, people and situations. All Remote ... Read more

    PHP117.84

  • Atomic Obsession

    Nuclear Alarmism from Hiroshima to Al-Qaeda

    by John Mueller ...
    Following 9/11, Americans were swept up in a near hysteria-level fear of terrorists, especially of Islamic extremists working domestically. The government and media reports stoked fears that people living in the US have the desire and means to wreak extreme havoc and destruction. Early reports estimated slightly more than 300 al Qaeda operatives living in the United States. It wasn't long before ... Read more

    PHP1,919.39

  • Outlaw Platoon

    Heroes, Renegades, Infidels, and the Brotherhood of War in Afghanistan

    by Sean Parnell, John Bruning ...
    Acclaimed for its vivid, poignant, and honest recreation of sixteen brutal months of nearly continuous battle in the deadly Hindu Kesh, Outlaw Platoon is a Band of Brothers or We Were Soldiers Once and Young for the early 21st century—a riveting, action-packed, highly emotional war memoir and true story of enormous sacrifice and bravery.At twenty-four years of age, U.S. Army Ranger Sean Parnell ... Read more

    PHP800.59 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Red November

    Inside the Secret U.S.-Soviet Submarine War

    by W. Craig Reed ...
    “Red November delivers the real life feel and fears of submariners who risked their lives to keep the peace.”—Steve Berry, author of The Paris VendettaW. Craig Reed, a former navy diver and fast-attack submariner, provides a riveting portrayal of the secret underwater struggle between the US and the USSR in Red November. A spellbinding true-life adventure in the bestselling tradition of Blind Man ... Read more

    PHP801.09

  • Nuclear War

    A Scenario

    by Annie Jacobsen ...
    The INSTANT New York Times bestsellerInstant Los Angeles Times **bestsellerFinalist, Dayton Literary Peace PrizeOne of NPR's Books We LoveOne of Newsweek Staffers' Favorite Books of the YearShortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize**“In Nuclear War: A Scenario, Annie Jacobsen gives us a vivid picture of what could happen if our nuclear guardians fail…Terrif... ... Read more

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  • Communist China VS Communist Russia!! Secrets You Never Knew

    by Capitalism one0one ...
    The China-Soviet split (1960–1989) was the worsening of political and ideological relations between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) during the Cold War. In the 1960s, China and the Soviet Union were the two largest Communist states in the world. The doctrinal divergence derived from Chinese and Russiannational interests, and from the régimes' ... Read more

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  • The Doomsday Machine

    Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner

    by Daniel Ellsberg ...
    Shortlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in NonfictionFinalist for The California Book Award in NonfictionThe San Francisco Chronicle's Best of the Year ListForeign Affairs Best Books of the YearIn These Times “Best Books of the Year"Huffington Post's Ten Excellent December Books ListLitHub's “Five Books Making News This Week”</str... ... Read more

    PHP810.19

  • The Cuban Missile Crisis

    The Threshold of Nuclear War

    by Alice George ...
    Series series Critical Moments in American History
    For thirteen days in October of 1962, a truly perilous flirtation with nuclear war developed between the United States and USSR, as the superpowers argued over the installation of Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba. Launched by rash judgment and concluded through circumspect leadership, the Cuban Missile Crisis acted as a catalyst for change during the Cold War. Resolved through back-channel ... Read more

    PHP3,826.75

  • The Dead Hand (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy

    by David Hoffman ...
    WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEThe 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 that remain a threat today.Drawing on memoirs, interviews in both Russia and the US, and classified ... Read more

    PHP411.09

  • Ploughshares and Swords

    India's Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War

    by Jayita Sarkar ...
    India's nuclear program is often misunderstood as an inward-looking endeavor of secretive technocrats. In Ploughshares and Swords, Jayita Sarkar challenges this received wisdom, narrating a global story of India's nuclear program during its first forty years. The book foregrounds the program's civilian and military features by probing its close relationship with the space program. Through nuclear ... Read more

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  • Nagasaki

    The Last Witnesses

    by M. G. Sheftall ...
    Series Book 2 - Embers
    The second volume in a prize-worthy two-book series based on years of irreplicable personal interviews with survivors about each of the atomic bomb drops, first in Hiroshima and then Nagasaki, that hastened the end of the Pacific War.On August 6, 1945, the United States unleashed a weapon unlike anything the world had ever seen. Then, just three days later, when Japan showed no sign of surrender, ... Read more

    PHP854.29

  • Tempting Fate

    Why Nonnuclear States Confront Nuclear Opponents

    by Paul C. Avey ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
    Unpacking of the dynamics of conflict under conditions of nuclear monopoly, Paul C. Avey argues in Tempting Fatethat the costs and benefits of using nuclear weapons create openings that weak nonnuclear actors can exploit. Avey uses four case studies to show the key strategies available to nonnuclear states: Iraqi decision-making under Saddam Hussein in confrontations with the United States; ... Read more

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  • The Bells of Nagasaki

    A first-hand account of the catastrophic atomic bombing

    by Takashi Nagai ...
    Translated by William Johnston ...
    ‘A book that everyone should read’ The TimesA harrowing, heart-rending first-hand account of the bombing of Nagasaki – and the acts of human kindness left in its wake.On 9th August 1945, the Japanese city of Nagasaki is hit by an atomic bomb. Forty thousand people are killed instantly. Doctor Takashi Nagai is not one of them.Pulling himself, broken and bloodied, from the wreckage that was once the ... Read more

    PHP756.59

  • Angstens rappe såler. En roman om en verdenspsykose

    by Arthur Christensen ...
    "... evig krig, i hvilken nationerne stadig på ny bestræber sig for at undertvinge og undertrykke hinanden, da opstod der i min hjerne en tanke, som ikke har ladet mig i ro. Det er den tanke, at det værdigste mål, det eneste værdige mål for en fysiker er at finde et middel til at tilintetgøre Jorden og menneskeheden. En vældig plan ganske vist, men jeg havde på følelsen, at jeg skulle få held til ... Read more

    PHP412.27

  • Nuclear Energy and Nuclear Weapon Proliferation

    by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Nuclear Security
    In mid-1980 a second conference for the review of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) would take place in Geneva. Given the importance of preventing, or at least slowing down, nuclear weapon proliferation, this conference would be a crucial event in the field of arms control and disarmament. For many countries the technical and economic barriers to proliferation had disappeared, and the only ... Read more

    PHP3,513.03

  • The Sheathed Sword

    From Nuclear Brink to No First Use

    by Prakash Menon, Aditya Ramanathan ...
    After a brief interlude following the Cold War, nuclear weapons have regained their prominent place in world affairs. Yet our current nuclear age will not be a replay of the Cold War. New technologies, changing political contexts and the death of old arms-control agreements mean that today's nuclear strategists have to navigate unchartered waters filled with fresh perils. Unfortunately, the ... Read more

    PHP5,844.59

  • Expedient Shelter Construction

    and Occupancy Experiments

    by Cresson H. Kearny ...
    Simple shelters—that you can build quickResearch was undertaken to evaluate how average citizens could create their own shelters in the case of a political crisis that could lead to a nuclear attack. It was known that at this time in the mid-1970s, after Civil Defense planning and spending had waned since the 1950’s-60’s, that both the Soviet Union and China had more preparations for their ... Read more

    PHP375.84 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Other Side of Arms Control

    Soviet Objectives in the Gorbachev Era

    by Alan B. Sherr ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Nuclear Security
    How does the Soviet Union view the costs and benefits of nuclear arms control? What factors motivate Soviet negotiations with the Western world on this crucial issue? And what, precisely, does the Soviet Union hope to accomplish through nuclear arms control? Originally published in 1988, The Other Side of Arms Control provides an in-depth examination of this too infrequently discussed aspect of ... Read more

    PHP3,513.03

  • Foreign Policy in Iran and Saudi Arabia

    Economics and Diplomacy in the Middle East

    by Robert Mason ...
    Saudi Arabia, with its US alliance and abundance of oil dollars, has a very different economic story to that of Iran, which despite enormous natural gas reserves, has been hit hard by economic, trade, scientific and military sanctions since its 1979 revolution. Robert Mason looks at the effect that economic considerations (such as oil, gas, sanctions, trade and investment) have had on foreign ... Read more

    PHP2,182.59