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    • Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis
    • By: Martin J. Sherwin
    • Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
    • Length: 18 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 10-13-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
    • In this groundbreaking look at the Cuban Missile Crisis, Martin Sherwin not only gives us a riveting sometimes hour-by-hour explanation of the crisis itself, but also explores the origins, scope, and consequences of the evolving place of nuclear weapons in the post-World War II world....

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    • A Scenario
    • By: Annie Jacobsen
    • Narrated by: Annie Jacobsen
    • Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,469 ratings
    • There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in a matter of hours: nuclear war. And one of the triggers for that war would be a nuclear missile inbound toward the United States.

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    • Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
    • By: Eric Schlosser
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Length: 20 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,124 ratings
    • Famed investigative journalist Eric Schlosser digs deep to uncover secrets about the management of America's nuclear arsenal....

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    • Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962
    • By: Max Hastings
    • Narrated by: Max Hastings, John Hopkins
    • Length: 19 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 10-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 155 ratings
    • Bestselling author Max Hastings offers a welcome re-evaluation of one of the most gripping and tense international events in modern history—the Cuban Missile Crisis—providing a people-focused narrative that explores the attitudes and conduct....

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    • Dewey Andreas Series, Book 8
    • By: Ben Coes
    • Narrated by: Ari Fliakos
    • Series: A Dewey Andreas Novel, Book 8
    • Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 07-31-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,043 ratings
    • Dewey Andreas, still reeling from recent revelations about his own past, is ready to retire from the CIA. But he's the only available agent with the skills to carry out the CIA's plan to stop North Korea's nuclear scheme....

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    • An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base
    • By: Annie Jacobsen
    • Narrated by: Annie Jacobsen
    • Length: 16 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,674 ratings
    • It is the most famous military installation in the world. And it doesn't exist. Located a mere s75 miles outside of Las Vegas in Nevada's desert, the base has never been acknowledged by the US government - but Area 51 has captivated imaginations for decades....

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    • The True Story of a U.S. Cold War Submarine's Covert Operations Against the Soviet Union
    • By: Peter Sasgen
    • Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
    • Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 354 ratings
    • Stalking the Red Bear, for the first time ever, describes the action principally from the perspective of a commanding officer of a nuclear submarine during the Cold War....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Joseph M. Siracusa
    • Narrated by: Shawn Compton
    • Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 12-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • This Very Short Introduction looks at the science of nuclear weapons and how they differ from conventional weapons....

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    • The Hiroshima Cover-Up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World
    • By: Lesley M.M. Blume
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 273 ratings
    • New York Times best-selling author Lesley M.M. Blume reveals how one courageous American reporter uncovered one of the deadliest cover-ups of the 20th century - the true effects of the atom bomb - potentially saving millions of lives....

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    • The Unmooring of American Military Power
    • By: Rachel Maddow
    • Narrated by: Rachel Maddow
    • Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 03-27-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,088 ratings
    • Written with bracing wit and intelligence, Rachel Maddow's Drift argues that we've drifted away from America's original ideals and become a nation weirdly at peace with perpetual war, with all the financial and human costs that entails....

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    • A New Look at the History and Future of Nuclear Power
    • By: James Mahaffey
    • Narrated by: John McLain
    • Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,064 ratings
    • The American public's introduction to nuclear technology was manifested in destruction and death, with Hiroshima and the Cold War still ringing in our ears....

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    • Recent Challenges, New Dangers, and the Prospects for a World Without Nuclear Weapons
    • By: Richard Rhodes
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Series: Richard Rhodes' Nuclear Histories
    • Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 08-24-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 166 ratings
    • The culminating volume in Richard Rhodes’s monumental and prizewinning history of nuclear weapons, offering the first comprehensive narrative of the challenges faced in a post-Cold War age. The past 20 years have transformed our relationship with nuclear weapons drastically....

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    • The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb
    • By: Sam Kean
    • Narrated by: Ben Sullivan
    • Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 904 ratings
    • From New York Times best-selling author Sam Kean comes the gripping, untold story of a renegade group of scientists and spies determined to keep Adolf Hitler from obtaining the ultimate prize: a nuclear bomb....

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    • The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy
    • By: David E. Hoffman
    • Narrated by: Bob Walter
    • Length: 20 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 10-13-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,524 ratings
    • The Dead Hand is the suspense-filled story of the people who sought to brake the speeding locomotive of the arms race, then rushed to secure the nuclear and biological weapons left behind by the collapse of the Soviet Union—a dangerous legacy that haunts us even today....

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    • The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
    • By: Richard Rhodes
    • Narrated by: Richard Rhodes
    • Length: 6 hrs
    • Release date: 03-01-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 461 ratings
    • The author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb lays bare the secret heart of the Cold War....

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    • The True Story of the AR-15 Rifle
    • By: Cameron McWhirter, Zusha Elinson
    • Narrated by: Roger Wayne
    • Length: 14 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • In the 1950s, an obsessive firearms designer named Eugene Stoner invented the AR-15 rifle in a California garage. High-minded and patriotic, Stoner sought to devise a lightweight, easy-to-use weapon that could replace the M1s touted by soldiers in World War II....

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    • The Rise of America's Gun
    • By: Paul M. Barrett
    • Narrated by: Kiff VandenHeuvel
    • Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 01-10-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 781 ratings
    • Based on 15 years of research, Glock is the riveting story of the weapon that has become known as America’s gun....

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    • By: Douglas Frantz, Catherine Collins
    • Narrated by: Bob Craig
    • Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 12-03-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • 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....

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