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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 164 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 Cold War Showdown That Shaped the Modern World
    • By: Giles Milton
    • Narrated by: Giles Milton
    • Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 07-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 170 ratings
    • From a master of popular history, the lively, immersive story of the race to seize Berlin in the aftermath of World War II as it’s never been told before....

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    • By: Adam Higginbotham
    • Narrated by: Jacques Roy
    • Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7,542 ratings
    • This is the definitive story of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, based on original reporting and new archival research. Through two decades of reporting, new archival information, and firsthand interviews with witnesses, Adam Higginbotham tells the full dramatic story....

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    • Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal
    • By: Ben Macintyre
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 11 hrs
    • Release date: 07-29-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,617 ratings
    • Who was Kim Philby? Those closest to him—like his fellow MI6 officer and best friend since childhood, Nicholas Elliot, and the CIA’s head of counterintelligence, James Jesus Angleton—knew him as a loyal confidant and an unshakeable patriot....

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    • Secrets of Russia's Master Spy in America after the End of the Cold War
    • By: Pete Earley
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 02-18-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 345 ratings
    • Spymaster, defector, double agent....Here is the remarkable true story of the man who ran Russia's post-cold-war spy program in America....

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    • A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
    • By: Serhii Plokhy
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 06-15-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 80 ratings
    • Nearly 30 years after the end of the Cold War, today's leaders are abandoning disarmament treaties, building up their nuclear arsenals, and exchanging threats of nuclear strikes. To survive this new atomic age, we must relearn the lessons of the most dangerous moment of the Cold War....

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    • Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, and the World on the Brink
    • By: William Inboden
    • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
    • Length: 23 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 72 ratings
    • A masterful account of how Ronald Reagan and his national security team confronted the Soviets, reduced the nuclear threat, won the Cold War, and supported the spread of freedom around the world....

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    • The First Thirty Years
    • By: Patrick N. Allitt, The Great Courses
    • Narrated by: Patrick N. Allitt
    • Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 135 ratings
    • The 30 years of contemporary US history following the fall of the Soviet Union tend to get short shrift. Nonetheless, events of today have been profoundly shaped by the past several decades, and one must understand this recent history to understand the world today....

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    • Six Friends and the World They Made
    • By: Evan Thomas, Walter Isaacson
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Reese
    • Length: 33 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 01-29-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 379 ratings
    • Six close friends shaped the role their country would play in the dangerous years following World War II....

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    • The Secret Saga of the FBI Agent and the Code Breaker Who Caught the Russian Spies
    • By: Howard Blum
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 02-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 353 ratings
    • The New York Times best-selling author of Dark Invasion chronicles the incredible true story of a critical, recently declassified counterintelligence mission....

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    • 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
    • Release date: 05-02-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,240 ratings
    • 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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    • How the CIA Went from Cold War Heroes to Deep State Villains
    • By: J. Michael Waller
    • Narrated by: Charles Constant
    • Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 01-16-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Shocking, illuminating—and filled with exclusive interviews with leading CIA figures themselves—Big Intel recounts the dramatic story of the rise and Cold War heroics of the CIA and the American intelligence apparatus followed by its unfortunate slide into Kafkaesque Deep State dysfunction....

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    • Startling Cold War Revelations of a Soviet KGB Chief
    • By: Tennent H. Bagley
    • Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
    • Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 771 ratings
    • From the dark days of World War II through the Cold War, Sergey A. Kondrashev was a major player in Russia’s notorious KGB espionage apparatus....

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    • Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War
    • By: Nicholas Thompson
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 15 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 76 ratings
    • Only two Americans held positions of great influence throughout the Cold War; ironically, they were the chief advocates for the opposing strategies for winning---and surviving---that harrowing conflict....

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    • The U.S. Navy in the Cold War 1945-1960
    • By: James D. Hornfischer
    • Narrated by: Christopher Newton, Sharon Hornfischer
    • Length: 17 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 268 ratings
    • This landmark account of the US Navy in the Cold War, Who Can Hold the Sea combines narrative history with scenes of stirring adventure on—and under—the high seas. In 1945, at the end of World War II, the victorious Navy sends its sailors home....

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    • The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination
    • By: Stuart A. Reid
    • Narrated by: Michael Boatman
    • Length: 18 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 10-17-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • It was supposed to be a moment of great optimism, a cause for jubilation. The Congo was at last being set free from Belgium—one of seventeen countries to gain independence in 1960 from ruling European powers....

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    • Ronald Reagan and the Fall of the Soviet Empire
    • By: Bret Baier, Catherine Whitney
    • Narrated by: Bret Baier
    • Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 841 ratings
    • In Three Days in Moscow, Baier explores the dramatic endgame of America’s long struggle with the Soviet Union and President Ronald Reagan’s central role in shaping the world we live in today....

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    • What the Cold War Teaches Us About Great-Power Rivalry Today
    • By: Hal Brands
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • In this innovative and illuminating book, Hal Brands, a leading historian and former Pentagon adviser, argues that America should look to the history of the Cold War for lessons in how to succeed in great-power rivalry today....

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