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  • Bombing the Marshall Islands

    A Cold War Tragedy

    by Keith M. Parsons, Robert A. Zaballa ...
    During the Cold War, the United States conducted atmospheric tests of nuclear weapons in the Marshall Islands of the Pacific. The total explosive yield of these tests was 108 megatons, equivalent to the detonation of one Hiroshima bomb per day over nineteen years. These tests, particularly Castle Bravo, the largest one, had tragic consequences, including the irradiation of innocent people and the ... Read more

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    by Noam Chomsky ...
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    A New York Times BestsellerThe world’s leading intellectual offers a probing examination of the waning American Century, the nature of U.S. policies post-9/11, and the perils of valuing power above democracy and human rights.In an incisive, thorough analysis of the current international situation, Noam Chomsky argues that the United States, through its military-first policies and its unstinting ... Read more

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  • Dark Sun

    The Making Of The Hydrogen Bomb

    by Richard Rhodes ...
    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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  • Maralinga

    The chilling expose of our secret nuclear shame and betrayal of our troops and country

    by Frank Walker ...
    'The story reaches out and grabs you by the throat' - Dr Clare Wright, historian and author of The Forgotten Rebels of EurekaThe facts are shocking. The treachery is chilling. The fallout ongoing.This edition contains a new author note with shocking new material that has come to light as a result of the groundbreaking original publication.Investigative journalist Frank Walker's ... ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Spooks: The Unofficial History of MI5 From the First Atom Spy to 7/7 1945-2009

    by Thomas Hennessey & Claire Thomas ...
    PO Box 500, London W2; the nondescript address from behind which one of the worlds most famous Secret Services hid: MI5. This book, based on previously secret sources, lifts the lid on Britains Security Service.The authors look in detail at MI5s role in the post-Cold War world; in particular, they consider its changing role as it took on the main responsibility in countering terrorist threats to ... Read more

    $10.59 USD

  • The New Men

    by C.P. Snow ...
    Series Book 5 - Strangers and Brothers
    It is the onset of World War II in the fifth in the Strangers and Brothers series. A group of Cambridge scientists are working on atomic fission. But there are consequences for the men who are affected by it. Hiroshima also causes mixed personal reactions. ... Read more

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  • The First War of Physics

    by Jim Baggott ...
    An epic story of science and technology at the very limits of human understanding: the monumental race to build the first atomic weapons.Rich in personality, action, confrontation, and deception, The First War of Physics is the first fully realized popular account of the race to build humankind's most destructive weapon. The book draws on declassified material, such as MI6's Farm Hall transcripts, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Now It Can Be Told

    The Story of the Manhattan Project

    by Leslie M. Groves ...
    A first-person account of the Manhattan Project by the general who hired, and worked alongside, Robert Oppenheimer.General Leslie Groves and J. Robert Oppenheimer were the two men chiefly responsible for the building of the first atomic bomb at Los Alamos, code name the Manhattan Project. As the ranking military officer in charge of marshaling men and material for what was to be the most ambitious ... Read more

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  • The Naval Battle - What the U.S. Needs to Get Right

    by Hudson Owen ...
    A veteran naval blogger writes about compelling issues facing the U.S. Navy today and tomorrow. What size ships and how many of them do we really need? How vulnerable is the carrier battle group in waters infested with enemy subs and cruise missiles? How would we fight China or Iran? Is the Navy too politically correct? These and other issues are addressed in this timely 7,700 word essay. ... Read more

    $1.49 USD

  • Vulcan: God of Fire

    God of Fire

    by Tim McLelland ...
    Vulcan: God of Fire is a historical account of Britain's nuclear deterrent force, the development of atomic/thermonuclear weapons and the bombers. It includes a description of the design, development and manufacture of the Vulcan, the flight testing programme and entry into RAF service. There is also a full account of the Vulcan's career, including its primary role as a nuclear bomber and as a key ... Read more

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  • THE BEATLES AND THE BOMB [Box Set]: The Atomic Times and Always On Sunday

    20th Century Memoirs: Face to Face With The Beatles And The Bomb [Boxed Set]

    by Michael Harris ...
    THE BEATLES AND THE BOMBThanks to my job as the CBS Press Rep on "The Ed Sullivan Show," I was the guy who welcomed John, Paul, George and Ringo to the United States on their first trip to America.Thanks to the US Army, I was turned into a human guinea pig and sent to the South Pacific to watch nukes explode.Here are two tell-alls--one about the glittering and gossipy back stage world of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Norad and the Soviet Nuclear Threat

    Canada's Secret Electronic Air War

    by Gordon A. A. Wilson ...
    NORAD and the Soviet Nuclear Threat is the history of the air defence of Canada during the Cold War era. The reader is taken into the Top Secret world of NORAD, the joint Canadian-American North American Air Defence network. Ride along with the aircrew in their cockpit as they fight an electronic joust in the skies. Go deep underground to the Command Centre as the Air Weapons controllers plot the ... Read more

    $14.19 USD