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  • Atomic Bill

    A Journalist's Dangerous Ambition in the Shadow of the Bomb

    by Vincent Kiernan ...
    In Atomic Bill**, Vincent Kiernan examines the fraught career of** New York Times science journalist, William L. Laurence and shows his professional and personal lives to be a cautionary tale of dangerous proximity to power.Laurence was fascinated with atomic science and its militarization. When the Manhattan Project drew near to perfecting the atomic bomb, he was recruited to write much of the go ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Embargoed Science

    by Vincent Kiernan ...
    The popular notion of a lone scientist privately toiling long hours in a laboratory, striking upon a great discovery, and announcing it to the world is a romanticized fiction. Vincent Kiernan's Embargoed Science reveals the true process behind science news: an elite few scholarly journals control press coverage through a mechanism known as an embargo. The journals distribute advance copies of ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

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    Atomic Bill

    A Journalist's Dangerous Ambition in the Shadow of the Bomb

    by Vincent Kiernan ...
    Narrated by Jim Frangione ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 55 min

    William L. Laurence was fascinated with atomic science and its militarization. When the Manhattan Project drew near to perfecting the atomic bomb, he was recruited to write much of the government's press materials that were distributed on the day that Hiroshima was obliterated. That instantly crowned Laurence as one of the leading journalistic experts on the atomic bomb. As the Cold War dawned, ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Vaults, Mirrors, and Masks

    Rediscovering U.S. Counterintelligence

    by Jennifer E. Sims, Burton Gerber, John Fox Jr., Michael Warner, Robert Jervis, Austin K. Yamada, Robert Wallace, Vincent H. Bridgeman, Kathleen L. Kiernan0, James R. Gosler1, Harvey Rishikof2, Rodney Faraon3, Timothy R. Sample4, Richard A. Posner5 ...
    Series series Georgetown Center for Security Studies
    Decision makers matching wits with an adversary want intelligence—good, relevant information to help them win. Intelligence can gain these advantages through directed research and analysis, agile collection, and the timely use of guile and theft. Counterintelligence is the art and practice of defeating these endeavors. Its purpose is the same as that of positive intelligence—to gain advantage—but ... Read more

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  • The Making of the Atomic Bomb

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  • Science Under Siege

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