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Nuclear War

A Scenario

by Annie Jacobsen ...

Narrated by Annie Jacobsen ...

Unabridged

11 hours 19 min

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

$22.99 USD

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...
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Making of the Atomic Bomb

25th Anniversary Edition

by Richard Rhodes ...

Narrated by Holter Graham ...

Unabridged

37 hours 16 min

**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award****The definitive history of nuclear weapons—**from the turn-of-the-century discovery of nuclear energy to J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project—this epic work details the science, the people, and the sociopolitical realities that led to the development of the atomic bomb.This sweeping ... Read more

$49.99 USD

**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award****The definitive history of nuclear weapons—**from the turn-of-the-century discovery of nuclear energy to J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project—this epic work details the science, the people, and the sociopolitical realities that led to the development of the atomic bomb.This sweeping
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Command and Control

Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety

by Eric Schlosser ...

Narrated by Scott Brick ...

Unabridged

20 hours 37 min

A myth-shattering exposé of America’s nuclear weapons.Famed investigative journalist Eric Schlosser digs deep to uncover secrets about the management of America’s nuclear arsenal. A groundbreaking account of accidents, near misses, extraordinary heroism, and technological breakthroughs, Command and Control explores the dilemma that has existed since the dawn of the nuclear age: How do you deploy ... Read more

$30.99 USD

A myth-shattering exposé of America’s nuclear weapons.Famed investigative journalist Eric Schlosser digs deep to uncover secrets about the management of America’s nuclear arsenal. A groundbreaking account of accidents, near misses, extraordinary heroism, and technological breakthroughs, Command and Control explores the dilemma that has existed since the dawn of the nuclear age: How do you deploy
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Hiroshima

by John Hersey ...

Narrated by George Guidall ...

Unabridged

5 hours 23 min

**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

$15.00 USD

**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]
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Road to Surrender

Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II

by Evan Thomas ...

Narrated by Robert Fass ...

Unabridged

7 hours 51 min

A riveting, immersive account of the agonizing decision to use nuclear weapons against Japan—a crucial turning point in World War II and geopolitical history—with you-are-there immediacy by the New York Times bestselling author of Ike’s Bluff and Sea of Thunder.“As Christopher Nolan’s movie Oppenheimer shows, the shockwaves reverberate still. The veteran biographer Evan Thomas now enters the ... Read more

$20.99 USD

A riveting, immersive account of the agonizing decision to use nuclear weapons against Japan—a crucial turning point in World War II and geopolitical history—with you-are-there immediacy by the New York Times bestselling author of Ike’s Bluff and Sea of Thunder.“As Christopher Nolan’s movie Oppenheimer shows, the shockwaves reverberate still. The veteran biographer Evan Thomas now enters the
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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

$25.99 USD

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
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Ghosts of Hiroshima

by Charles Pellegrino ...

Narrated by Martin Sheen ...

Unabridged

8 hours 59 min

A NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLERSOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM ACADEMY AWARD–WINNING FILMMAKER JAMES CAMERON“Not since Titanic have I found a powerful, heartbreaking, and inspiring real-life story as found in Ghosts of Hiroshima by Charles Pellegrino. This is an amazing book and a film I am excited to direct.”—James CameronFrom the acclaimed New York T... ... Read more

$22.95 USD

A NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLERSOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM ACADEMY AWARD–WINNING FILMMAKER JAMES CAMERON“Not since Titanic have I found a powerful, heartbreaking, and inspiring real-life story as found in Ghosts of Hiroshima by Charles Pellegrino. This is an amazing book and a film I am excited to direct.”—James CameronFrom the acclaimed New York T...
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Voices From Chernobyl

The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

by Svetlana Alexievich ...

Narrated by The Voice Clan ...

Unabridged

9 hours 8 min

An account of the worst nuclear reactor accident in history from the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureWinner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureWinner of the National Book Critics Circle AwardA journalist by trade, who now suffers from an immune deficiency developed while researching this book, presents personal accounts of what happened to the people of Belarus after the nuclear reactor ... Read more

$14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

An account of the worst nuclear reactor accident in history from the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureWinner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureWinner of the National Book Critics Circle AwardA journalist by trade, who now suffers from an immune deficiency developed while researching this book, presents personal accounts of what happened to the people of Belarus after the nuclear reactor
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Песнь Нагасаки. История Такаси Нагаи, пережившего атомную бомбардировку

by Пол Глинн ...

Narrated by Алексей Ерохин ...

Series series Выбирая жизнь. Книги о силе духа.
Unabridged

9 hours 11 min

Даже в пепле можно найти смысл. История жизни врача-рентгенолога Такаси Нагаи, пережившего атомную бомбардировку Нагасаки 9 августа 1945 года Когда на Нагасаки упала атомная бомба, Такаси Нагаи потерял все — здоровье, любимую жену, дом. Но он не проклинал судьбу, не отчаивался, а всю оставшуюся жизнь помогал пострадавшим не только как врач, но и как автор книг, которые нашли глубокий отклик в ... Read more

$6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Даже в пепле можно найти смысл. История жизни врача-рентгенолога Такаси Нагаи, пережившего атомную бомбардировку Нагасаки 9 августа 1945 года Когда на Нагасаки упала атомная бомба, Такаси Нагаи потерял все — здоровье, любимую жену, дом. Но он не проклинал судьбу, не отчаивался, а всю оставшуюся жизнь помогал пострадавшим не только как врач, но и как автор книг, которые нашли глубокий отклик в
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Plutopia

Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters

by Kate Brown ...

Narrated by Susan Ericksen ...

Unabridged

18 hours 10 min

In Plutopia, Kate Brown draws on official records and dozens of interviews to tell the extraordinary stories of Richland, Washington, and Ozersk, Russia—the first two cities in the world to produce plutonium. To contain secrets, American and Soviet leaders created plutopias—communities of nuclear families living in highly subsidized, limited-access atomic cities. Fully employed and medically ... Read more

$23.99 USD

In Plutopia, Kate Brown draws on official records and dozens of interviews to tell the extraordinary stories of Richland, Washington, and Ozersk, Russia—the first two cities in the world to produce plutonium. To contain secrets, American and Soviet leaders created plutopias—communities of nuclear families living in highly subsidized, limited-access atomic cities. Fully employed and medically
... Read more
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Building and Stocking a Nuclear Bunker For Under $10,000

by Martin K. Ettington ...

Narrated by Martin K. Ettington ...

Unabridged

19 min

Building Shelters to protect individuals and their families from emergency situations has become extremely popular in the United States.I have my own experience of building a nuclear bomb shelter in 2002 and stocking it with supplies. I did it for less than $10,000 and thought you would all be interested in how I did it for so little money.I’m also a nuclear engineer and used my knowledge and some ... Read more

$6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Building Shelters to protect individuals and their families from emergency situations has become extremely popular in the United States.I have my own experience of building a nuclear bomb shelter in 2002 and stocking it with supplies. I did it for less than $10,000 and thought you would all be interested in how I did it for so little money.I’m also a nuclear engineer and used my knowledge and some
... Read more
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Emp Attack: How to Prepare for and Survive an Electromagnetic Pulse Attack (The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide on How to Survive a Deadly Emp Attack)

by Gerald Taylor ...

Narrated by Digital Voice Mike G ...

Unabridged

50 min

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The pentagon has also taken action to protect the electric grid from an emp attack as well, but nonetheless, experts on the subject and emp advocates continue to insist that we are woefully underprepared for an emp attack.Because the government is so underprepared for an emp attack and due to the fact that the government can do absolutely nothing to ... Read more

$4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The pentagon has also taken action to protect the electric grid from an emp attack as well, but nonetheless, experts on the subject and emp advocates continue to insist that we are woefully underprepared for an emp attack.Because the government is so underprepared for an emp attack and due to the fact that the government can do absolutely nothing to
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Cold War: Series 1 and 2

Stories from the Big Freeze

by Bridget Kendall ...

Narrated by Bridget Kendall ...

Unabridged

6 hours 59 min

Bridget Kendall presents an oral history tracing decisive moments of the Cold War.The Cold War is one of the furthest-reaching and longest-lasting conflicts in modern history. It spanned the globe - from Greece to China, Hungary to Cuba - and lasted for almost half a century. It has shaped political relations to this day, drawing new physical and ideological boundaries between East and West ... Read more

$13.99 USD

Bridget Kendall presents an oral history tracing decisive moments of the Cold War.The Cold War is one of the furthest-reaching and longest-lasting conflicts in modern history. It spanned the globe - from Greece to China, Hungary to Cuba - and lasted for almost half a century. It has shaped political relations to this day, drawing new physical and ideological boundaries between East and West
... Read more
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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

$19.99 USD

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
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The Nuclear Jihadist

The True Story of the Man Who Sold the World's Most Dangerous Secrets...And How We Could Have Stopped Him

by Douglas Frantz, Catherine Collins ...

Narrated by Bob Craig ...

Unabridged

15 hours 28 min

Major investigative nonfiction on one of the most important stories of our time -- the spread of nuclear weapons -- written by two award-winning journalists who for years have followed the trail of the world's most notorious arms dealer.The world has entered a second nuclear age. For the first time since the end of the Cold War, the threat of nuclear annihilation is on the rise. Should such an ... Read more

$38.99 USD

Major investigative nonfiction on one of the most important stories of our time -- the spread of nuclear weapons -- written by two award-winning journalists who for years have followed the trail of the world's most notorious arms dealer.The world has entered a second nuclear age. For the first time since the end of the Cold War, the threat of nuclear annihilation is on the rise. Should such an
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War's End

An Eyewitness Account of America's Last Atomic Mission

by Maj. Gen. Charles W. Sweeney ...

Narrated by Eric Jason Martin ...

Unabridged

9 hours 11 min

On August 9, 1945, on the tiny island of Tinian in the South Pacific, a twenty-five-year-old American Army Air Corps major named Charles W. Sweeney climbed aboard a B-29 Superfortress in command of his first combat mission, one devised specifically to bring a long and terrible war to a necessary conclusion . . .The last military officer to command an atomic mission, Maj. Gen. Charles W. Sweeney ... Read more

$24.99 USD

On August 9, 1945, on the tiny island of Tinian in the South Pacific, a twenty-five-year-old American Army Air Corps major named Charles W. Sweeney climbed aboard a B-29 Superfortress in command of his first combat mission, one devised specifically to bring a long and terrible war to a necessary conclusion . . .The last military officer to command an atomic mission, Maj. Gen. Charles W. Sweeney
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Robert Oppenheimer

A Life Inside the Center

by Ray Monk ...

Narrated by Michael Goldstrom ...

Unabridged

35 hours 17 min

Robert Oppenheimer was among the most brilliant and divisive of men. As head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, he oversaw the successful effort to beat the Nazis in the race to develop the first atomic bomb—a breakthrough that was to have eternal ramifications for mankind and that made Oppenheimer the “Father of the Atomic Bomb.” But with his actions leading up to that great achievement, he also set ... Read more

$37.50 USD

Robert Oppenheimer was among the most brilliant and divisive of men. As head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, he oversaw the successful effort to beat the Nazis in the race to develop the first atomic bomb—a breakthrough that was to have eternal ramifications for mankind and that made Oppenheimer the “Father of the Atomic Bomb.” But with his actions leading up to that great achievement, he also set
... Read more
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Guerra nuclear

Un escenario

by Annie Jacobsen ...

Narrated by Francia Castañeda ...

Unabridged

10 hours 13 min

¿Qué ocurriría si un misil nuclear se dirigiera a Estados Unidos?«Un thriller geopolítico desde muchas perspectivas y con un cronómetro que te cortará la respiración».ForbesSolo hay un escenario, aparte del impacto de un asteroide, capaz de acabar con el mundo tal como lo conocemos en cuestión de horas: una guerra nuclear.Hasta ahora, nadie fuera de los círculos oficiales ha sabido con exactitud ... Read more

$22.99 USD

¿Qué ocurriría si un misil nuclear se dirigiera a Estados Unidos?«Un thriller geopolítico desde muchas perspectivas y con un cronómetro que te cortará la respiración».ForbesSolo hay un escenario, aparte del impacto de un asteroide, capaz de acabar con el mundo tal como lo conocemos en cuestión de horas: una guerra nuclear.Hasta ahora, nadie fuera de los círculos oficiales ha sabido con exactitud
... Read more
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Frenchman Flat

The Rise and Fall of Atomic Bombs

by Jon Else ...

Narrated by Brian P. Craig ...

Unabridged

15 hours 45 min

A timely book for unstable times, Frenchman Flat recounts the science, politics, and human experience of those who developed nuclear weapons, suffered the consequences of their testing, and fought for and against arms control between the 1940s and 1990s. The throughline of this vast, complex story is a thirty-seven-kiloton atomic bomb dubbed "Priscilla" that was exploded above a custom-built mini ... Read more

$25.99 USD

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A timely book for unstable times, Frenchman Flat recounts the science, politics, and human experience of those who developed nuclear weapons, suffered the consequences of their testing, and fought for and against arms control between the 1940s and 1990s. The throughline of this vast, complex story is a thirty-seven-kiloton atomic bomb dubbed "Priscilla" that was exploded above a custom-built mini
... Read more
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Un demi-Siècle au bord du gouffre atomique

by Jean-François Bouchard ...

Narrated by Isidore Amos ...

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

$17.99 USD

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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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

$19.95 USD

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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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

$16.99 USD

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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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

17 hours 16 min

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

$24.99 USD

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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Обратный отсчет: 116 дней до атомной бомбардировки Хиросимы

by Крис Уоллес, Крис Уоллес ...

Narrated by Вадим Чернобельский ...

Unabridged

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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