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Nuclear War
- A Scenario
- By: Annie Jacobsen
- Narrated by: Annie Jacobsen
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
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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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We have taken our eye off the ball
- By TJBuford on 03-28-24
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1. Nuclear War
- A Scenario
- Narrated by: Annie Jacobsen
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 03-26-24
- Language: English
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Under Pressure
- Living Life and Avoiding Death on a Nuclear Submarine
- By: Richard Humphreys
- Narrated by: Richard Humphreys
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
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What’s it like to spend three months without sunlight, sharing what little space you have with over 100 fellow crewmen and more firepower than all the bombs dropped in World War II? This memoir reveals the funny, challenging, one-of-a-kind experience that is life on a nuclear submarine....
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Not for me
- By GEORGE on 10-18-20
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2. Under Pressure
- Living Life and Avoiding Death on a Nuclear Submarine
- Narrated by: Richard Humphreys
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 06-02-20
- Language: English
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
- 25th Anniversary Edition
- By: Richard Rhodes
- Narrated by: Holter Graham
- Length: 37 hrs and 16 mins
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Here for the first time, in rich human, political, and scientific detail, is the complete story of how the bomb was developed....
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Beware limitations of the reader
- By JFanson on 01-01-19
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3. The Making of the Atomic Bomb
- 25th Anniversary Edition
- Narrated by: Holter Graham
- Series: Richard Rhodes' Nuclear Histories
- Length: 37 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 02-09-16
- Language: English
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The Abyss
- Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962
- By: Max Hastings
- Narrated by: Max Hastings, John Hopkins
- Length: 19 hrs and 9 mins
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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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Good book, but has some issues
- By Mike From Mesa on 11-10-22
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4. The Abyss
- Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962
- Narrated by: Max Hastings, John Hopkins
- Length: 19 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 10-18-22
- Language: English
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Command and Control
- Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
- By: Eric Schlosser
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 20 hrs and 34 mins
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Famed investigative journalist Eric Schlosser digs deep to uncover secrets about the management of America's nuclear arsenal....
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A miracle that we escaped the Cold War alive....
- By A reader on 02-16-14
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5. Command and Control
- Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 20 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 09-17-13
- Language: English
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The Doomsday Machine
- By: Daniel Ellsberg
- Narrated by: Steven Cooper
- Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
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The Doomsday Machine is Ellsberg's hair-raising insider's account of the most dangerous arms buildup in the history of civilization....
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Fascinating Insider Story
- By Terry Masters on 12-07-17
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6. The Doomsday Machine
- Narrated by: Steven Cooper
- Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 12-05-17
- Language: English
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The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler's Atomic Bomb
- By: Neal Bascomb
- Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
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It's 1942 and the Nazis are racing to be the first to build a weapon unlike any known before. They have the physicists, they have the uranium, and now all their plans depend on amassing a single ingredient....
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Needs a different narrator!!!!
- By Scott on 06-04-16
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7. The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler's Atomic Bomb
- Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 04-22-16
- Language: English
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Raven Rock
- The Story of the U.S. Government's Secret Plan to Save Itself - While the Rest of Us Die
- By: Garrett M. Graff
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 18 hrs and 4 mins
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A fresh window on American history: the eye-opening truth about the government's secret plans to survive a catastrophic attack on US soil, even if the rest of us die....
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Awesome Read!!
- By Brewer Richardson on 05-05-17
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8. Raven Rock
- The Story of the U.S. Government's Secret Plan to Save Itself - While the Rest of Us Die
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 18 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 05-02-17
- Language: English
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Chernobyl
- The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
- By: Serhii Plokhy
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: Not Yet Known
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From a preeminent historian of Eastern Europe, the definitive history of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster....
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Companions to Each Other
- By Tim on 06-04-19
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9. Chernobyl
- The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 05-15-18
- Language: English
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The Bastard Brigade
- 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
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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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Awesome
- By Solar red on 07-12-19
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10. The Bastard Brigade
- The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb
- Narrated by: Ben Sullivan
- Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 07-09-19
- Language: English
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The Dead Hand
- 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
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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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Eye opening
- By Brian on 11-16-10
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11. The Dead Hand
- The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy
- Narrated by: Bob Walter
- Length: 20 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 10-13-09
- Language: English
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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
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
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So begins this suspenseful, impeccably researched history that draws on new access to diaries to tell the story of three men who were intimately involved with America’s decision to drop the atomic bomb—and Japan’s decision to surrender....
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Why they decided to drop the atomic bombs
- By William R. Todd-Mancillas (Name includes hyphen and capitalized M). on 08-08-23
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12. Road to Surrender
- Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 05-16-23
- Language: English
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The Twilight of the Bombs
- Recent Challenges, New Dangers, and the Prospects for a World Without Nuclear Weapons
- By: Richard Rhodes
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
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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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Definitive Series ends with warnings but also Hope
- By Richard on 10-21-10
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13. The Twilight of the Bombs
- Recent Challenges, New Dangers, and the Prospects for a World Without Nuclear Weapons
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Series: Richard Rhodes' Nuclear Histories
- Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 08-24-10
- Language: English
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The Taking of K-129
- How the CIA Used Howard Hughes to Steal a Russian Sub in the Most Daring Covert Operation in History
- By: Josh Dean
- Narrated by: Neil Hellegers
- Length: 15 hrs and 47 mins
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In the early hours of February 25, 1968, a Russian submarine armed with three nuclear ballistic missiles set sail from its base in Siberia on a routine combat patrol to Hawaii. Then it vanished....
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One of the great stories in history
- By Ben Newman on 11-21-17
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14. The Taking of K-129
- How the CIA Used Howard Hughes to Steal a Russian Sub in the Most Daring Covert Operation in History
- Narrated by: Neil Hellegers
- Length: 15 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 09-05-17
- Language: English
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The General vs. the President
- MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War
- By: H. W. Brands
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 15 hrs and 22 mins
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The riveting story of how President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur squared off to decide America's future in the aftermath of World War II....
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A Vivid Dramatic Accounting
- By Jean on 11-11-16
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15. The General vs. the President
- MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 15 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 10-11-16
- Language: English
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Countdown 1945
- The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days That Changed the World
- By: Chris Wallace, Mitch Weiss
- Narrated by: Chris Wallace
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
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From Chris Wallace, the veteran journalist and anchor of Fox News Sunday comes a behind-the-scenes account of the 116 days leading up to the American attack on Hiroshima....
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Chris Wallace killed it!
- By Gaming Pancakes on 06-11-20
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16. Countdown 1945
- The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days That Changed the World
- Narrated by: Chris Wallace
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 06-09-20
- Language: English
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Arsenals of Folly
- The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race
- By: Richard Rhodes
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 14 hrs and 12 mins
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In a narrative that moves like a thriller, Rhodes sheds light on the Reagan administration's unprecedented arms buildup in the early 1980s....
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overall outstanding
- By Thomas on 06-25-09
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17. Arsenals of Folly
- The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Series: Richard Rhodes' Nuclear Histories
- Length: 14 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 09-26-07
- Language: English
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Fallout
- 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
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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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Required reading (listening, too)!
- By Michael Griffin on 08-13-20
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18. Fallout
- The Hiroshima Cover-Up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 08-04-20
- Language: English
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Robert Oppenheimer
- A Life Inside the Center
- By: Ray Monk
- Narrated by: Michael Goldstrom
- Length: 35 hrs and 17 mins
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Robert Oppenheimer was among the most brilliant and divisive of men....
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A comprehensive biography
- By Jean on 10-17-14
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19. Robert Oppenheimer
- A Life Inside the Center
- Narrated by: Michael Goldstrom
- Length: 35 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 05-14-13
- Language: English
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Three Days in January
- Dwight Eisenhower's Final Mission
- By: Bret Baier, Catherine Whitney
- Narrated by: Bret Baier, Danny Campbell
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
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Brett Baier's Three Days in January illuminates how Eisenhower, an underappreciated giant of US history, still offers vital lessons for our own time....
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Gently In Manner, Strongly In Deed...
- By Gillian on 01-20-17
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20. Three Days in January
- Dwight Eisenhower's Final Mission
- Narrated by: Bret Baier, Danny Campbell
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 01-10-17
- Language: English
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