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- Operation Argus and the Untold Story of the Cold War Nuclear Tests in Outer Space
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De: Michael Hiltzik
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American Moonshot
- John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race
- De: Douglas Brinkley
- Narrado por: Stephen Graybill
- Duración: 17 h y 14 m
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As the 50th anniversary of the first lunar landing approaches, the award-winning historian and perennial New York Times best-selling author takes a fresh look at the space program, President John F. Kennedy’s inspiring challenge, and America’s race to the moon.
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This narrator sounds like a frikkin robot! 👎👎👎
- De Timothy Anderson en 04-04-19
De: Douglas Brinkley
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
- 25th Anniversary Edition
- De: Richard Rhodes
- Narrado por: Holter Graham
- Duración: 37 h y 16 m
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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, from the turn-of-the-century discovery of the vast energy locked inside the atom to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan. Few great discoveries have evolved so swiftly - or have been so misunderstood. From the theoretical discussions of nuclear energy to the bright glare of Trinity, there was a span of hardly more than 25 years.
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Beware limitations of the reader
- De JFanson en 01-01-19
De: Richard Rhodes
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The Dead Hand
- The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy
- De: David E. Hoffman
- Narrado por: Bob Walter
- Duración: 20 h y 46 m
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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.The Cold War was an epoch of massive overkill.
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Eye opening
- De Brian en 11-16-10
De: David E. Hoffman
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A Fiery Peace in a Cold War
- Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon
- De: Neil Sheehan
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 19 h y 9 m
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From Neil Sheehan, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic A Bright Shining Lie, comes this long-awaited, magnificent epic. Here is the never-before-told story of the nuclear arms race that changed history - and of the visionary American Air Force officer Bernard Schriever, who led the high-stakes effort. A Fiery Peace in a Cold War is a masterly work about Schriever’s quests to prevent the Soviet Union from acquiring nuclear superiority, to penetrate and exploit space for America, and to build the first weapons meant to deter an atomic holocaust.
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Schriever rhymes with beaver.
- De John Gardner en 11-13-09
De: Neil Sheehan
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Blackett's War
- The Men Who Defeated the Nazi U-boats and Brought Science to the Art of Warfare
- De: Stephen Budiansky
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 11 h y 16 m
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In March 1941, after a year of unbroken and devastating U-boat onslaughts, the British War Cabinet decided to try a new strategy in the foundering naval campaign. To do so, they hired an intensely private, bohemian physicist who was also an ardent socialist. Patrick Blackett was a former navy officer and future winner of the Nobel Prize; he is little remembered today, but he and his fellow scientists did as much to win the war against Nazi Germany as almost anyone else.
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First time science used to fight a war
- De Jean en 08-20-14
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The Pentagon's Brain
- An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency
- De: Annie Jacobsen
- Narrado por: Annie Jacobsen
- Duración: 18 h y 22 m
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Discover the definitive history of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, in this Pulitzer Prize finalist from the author of the New York Times best seller Area 51. No one has ever written the history of the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful, and most controversial military science R&D agency. In the first-ever history about the organization, New York Times best-selling author Annie Jacobsen draws on inside sources, exclusive interviews, private documents, and declassified memos to paint a picture of DARPA, or "the Pentagon's brain".
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Scientia Est Potentia/Knowledge is Power
- De Cynthia en 10-08-15
De: Annie Jacobsen
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The Presidents and UFOs
- A Secret History from FDR to Obama
- De: Larry Holcombe
- Narrado por: Oliver Wyman
- Duración: 9 h y 39 m
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The UFO enigma has been part of our culture since the 1940s and is building to a worldwide explosion of acceptance today. Now, as governments around the world open their files and records on internal UFO investigations, the US remains steadfast in its denial of interest in the UFO issue. As more of the world's population accepts the possibility of an extraterrestrial presence, the demand is building for disclosure from the United States.
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The most magnificent book ever
- De nadia en 06-15-15
De: Larry Holcombe
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Code Warriors
- NSA's Codebreakers and the Secret Intelligence War Against the Soviet Union
- De: Stephen Budiansky
- Narrado por: Mark Deakins
- Duración: 14 h y 35 m
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The National Security Agency was born out of the legendary codebreaking programs of World War II that cracked the famed Enigma machine and other German and Japanese codes, thereby turning the tide of Allied victory. In the postwar years, as the United States developed a new enemy in the Soviet Union, our intelligence community found itself targeting not soldiers on the battlefield, but suspected spies, foreign leaders, and even American citizens.
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Did Vladimir Putin Steal the American Election?
- De Cynthia en 12-01-16
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Insiders Reveal Secret Space Programs & Extraterrestrial Alliances
- De: Michael E. Salla
- Narrado por: Jerry Lord
- Duración: 13 h y 47 m
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Classified space programs have been an integral part of a complex jigsaw puzzle concerning UFOs, extraterrestrial life, ancient civilizations and advanced aerospace technologies, which have long defied any coherent understanding. Now finally, we have something to put all the pieces together with the disclosures of secret space program whistleblower, Corey Goode. A detailed investigation of Goode’s and other insider testimonies reveals the big picture of a parallel world of secret space programs and extraterrestrial alliances.
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A waste of time
- De Roland Vellanoweth en 03-09-19
De: Michael E. Salla
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Racing for the Bomb
- The True Story of General Leslie R. Groves, the Man Behind the Birth of the Atomic Age
- De: Robert S. Norris
- Narrado por: Peter Johnson
- Duración: 23 h y 1 m
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Revealed for the first time in Racing for the Bomb, Groves played a crucial and decisive role in the planning, timing, and targeting of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki missions. Norris offers new insights into the complex and controversial questions surrounding the decision to drop the bomb in Japan and Groves' actions during World War II, which had a lasting imprint on the nuclear age and the Cold War that followed.
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Fascinating
- De Jean en 04-22-15
De: Robert S. Norris
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The Puzzle Palace
- Inside the National Security Agency, America's Most Secret Intelligence Organization
- De: James Bamford
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 20 h y 24 m
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In this remarkable tour de force of investigative reporting, James Bamford exposes the inner workings of America's largest, most secretive, and arguably most intrusive intelligence agency. The NSA has long eluded public scrutiny, but The Puzzle Palace penetrates its vast network of power and unmasks the people who control it, often with shocking disregard for the law.
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Great NSA genesis - but watch the publication date
- De E. M. en 12-05-18
De: James Bamford
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Red Moon Rising
- Sputnik and the Hidden Rivals That Ignited the Space Age
- De: Matthew Brzezinski
- Narrado por: Charles Stransky
- Duración: 11 h y 34 m
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On October 4, 1957, a time of Cold War paranoia, the Soviet Union secretly launched the Earth's first artificial moon. No bigger than a basketball, the tiny satellite was powered by a car battery. Yet, for all its simplicity, Sputnik stunned the world.
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awesome
- De Thomas en 06-25-09
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The Day after Oblivion
- De: Tim Washburn
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 12 h y 14 m
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And so it begins.... In the United States, the Department of Defense and the NSA computer networks have been hacked. A nuclear-armed CIA drone has lost all flight control. North Korea...Iran...Russia...and soon the gates of Hell will open. Humanity's most terrifying nightmare has become reality. Bombs are detonated, missiles are launched, counterstrikes are ordered, and within minutes, untold thousands of megatons have left countless millions dead or dying. Devastation of biblical proportions has fallen over the land...and the USA has been hit the hardest.
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Typical cookie cutter story
- De Columbus en 03-19-18
De: Tim Washburn
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Red Star Rogue
- De: Kenneth Sewell, Clint Richmond
- Narrado por: Brian Emerson
- Duración: 12 h y 15 m
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Early in 1968, a nuclear-armed Soviet submarine sank in the waters off Hawaii, hundreds of miles closer to American shores than it should have been. Compelling evidence strongly suggests that the sub sank while attempting to fire a nuclear missile.
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Twaddle. Just twaddle...
- De Scott en 10-13-14
De: Kenneth Sewell, y otros
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To Hell and Back
- The Last Train from Hiroshima
- De: Charles Pellegrino
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 18 h y 16 m
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To Hell and Back offers listeners a stunning "you are there" time capsule, wrapped in elegant prose. Charles Pellegrino's scientific authority and close relationship with the A-bomb survivors make his account the most gripping and authoritative ever written.
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The Pica-Don
- De Tad Davis en 09-07-20
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The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy
- New, Updated and Completely Revised
- De: Lawrence Freedman, Jeffrey Michaels
- Narrado por: Richard Elwood
- Duración: 24 h y 45 m
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First published in 1981, Lawrence Freedman's The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy was immediately acclaimed as the standard work on the history of attempts to cope militarily and politically with the terrible destructive power of nuclear weapons. It has now been completely rewritten, drawing on a wide range of new research, and updated to take account of the period following the end of the cold war, covering all nuclear powers.
De: Lawrence Freedman, y otros
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The Dead Hand
- The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy
- De: David E. Hoffman
- Narrado por: Bob Walter
- Duración: 20 h y 46 m
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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.The Cold War was an epoch of massive overkill.
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Eye opening
- De Brian en 11-16-10
De: David E. Hoffman
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Late For Doomsday
- a thrilling novella of nuclear survival
- De: Don Shift
- Narrado por: Virtual Voice
- Duración: 3 h y 19 m
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What would you do in a modern-day nuclear crisis? Would you leave behind your job at the risk of being fired if nothing—which you pray for—happens? Twin brothers Sheldon and Ellis are keeping a close eye on the development of a war between China and the United States. When it looks like it is about to go nuclear, they realize how close they are drawing the line between evacuation and sheltering in place. On the eve of the war, one brother is poised to head for their remote desert ranch while the other constructs a hasty shelter for his wife who refuses to leave. Their individual choices...
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Nice short story
- De Calin en 03-20-24
De: Don Shift
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The Day after Oblivion
- De: Tim Washburn
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 12 h y 14 m
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And so it begins.... In the United States, the Department of Defense and the NSA computer networks have been hacked. A nuclear-armed CIA drone has lost all flight control. North Korea...Iran...Russia...and soon the gates of Hell will open. Humanity's most terrifying nightmare has become reality. Bombs are detonated, missiles are launched, counterstrikes are ordered, and within minutes, untold thousands of megatons have left countless millions dead or dying. Devastation of biblical proportions has fallen over the land...and the USA has been hit the hardest.
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Typical cookie cutter story
- De Columbus en 03-19-18
De: Tim Washburn
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Red Star Rogue
- De: Kenneth Sewell, Clint Richmond
- Narrado por: Brian Emerson
- Duración: 12 h y 15 m
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Early in 1968, a nuclear-armed Soviet submarine sank in the waters off Hawaii, hundreds of miles closer to American shores than it should have been. Compelling evidence strongly suggests that the sub sank while attempting to fire a nuclear missile.
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Twaddle. Just twaddle...
- De Scott en 10-13-14
De: Kenneth Sewell, y otros
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To Hell and Back
- The Last Train from Hiroshima
- De: Charles Pellegrino
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 18 h y 16 m
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To Hell and Back offers listeners a stunning "you are there" time capsule, wrapped in elegant prose. Charles Pellegrino's scientific authority and close relationship with the A-bomb survivors make his account the most gripping and authoritative ever written.
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The Pica-Don
- De Tad Davis en 09-07-20
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The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy
- New, Updated and Completely Revised
- De: Lawrence Freedman, Jeffrey Michaels
- Narrado por: Richard Elwood
- Duración: 24 h y 45 m
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First published in 1981, Lawrence Freedman's The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy was immediately acclaimed as the standard work on the history of attempts to cope militarily and politically with the terrible destructive power of nuclear weapons. It has now been completely rewritten, drawing on a wide range of new research, and updated to take account of the period following the end of the cold war, covering all nuclear powers.
De: Lawrence Freedman, y otros
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The Dead Hand
- The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy
- De: David E. Hoffman
- Narrado por: Bob Walter
- Duración: 20 h y 46 m
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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.The Cold War was an epoch of massive overkill.
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Eye opening
- De Brian en 11-16-10
De: David E. Hoffman
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Late For Doomsday
- a thrilling novella of nuclear survival
- De: Don Shift
- Narrado por: Virtual Voice
- Duración: 3 h y 19 m
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What would you do in a modern-day nuclear crisis? Would you leave behind your job at the risk of being fired if nothing—which you pray for—happens? Twin brothers Sheldon and Ellis are keeping a close eye on the development of a war between China and the United States. When it looks like it is about to go nuclear, they realize how close they are drawing the line between evacuation and sheltering in place. On the eve of the war, one brother is poised to head for their remote desert ranch while the other constructs a hasty shelter for his wife who refuses to leave. Their individual choices...
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- De Calin en 03-20-24
De: Don Shift
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The Bomb and America's Missile Age
- De: Christopher Gainor
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
- Duración: 8 h y 11 m
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The intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), designed to quickly deliver thermonuclear weapons to distant targets, was the central weapons system of the Cold War. ICBMs also carried the first astronauts and cosmonauts into orbit. More than a generation later, we are still living with the political, technological, and scientific effects of the space race, while nuclear-armed ICBMs remain on alert and in the headlines around the world. Christopher Gainor explores the US Air Force's decision, in March 1954, to build the Atlas, America's first ICBM.
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a bit dry even for the topic
- De Milford Cubicle en 02-25-22
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Plutopia
- Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters
- De: Kate Brown
- Narrado por: Susan Ericksen
- Duración: 18 h y 10 m
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To contain secrets, American and Soviet leaders created plutopias - communities of nuclear families living in highly subsidized, limited-access atomic cities. Fully employed and medically monitored, the residents of Richland and Ozersk enjoyed all the pleasures of consumer society while nearby, migrants, prisoners, and soldiers were banned from plutopia - they lived in temporary "staging grounds" and often performed the most dangerous work at the plant.
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Mourning an Eternity of Radioactive Pollution
- De Will Szal en 01-01-19
De: Kate Brown
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Churchill's Bomb
- How the United States Overtook Britain in the First Nuclear Arms Race
- De: Graham Farmelo
- Narrado por: Clive Chafer
- Duración: 14 h y 20 m
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As award-winning biographer and science writer Graham Farmelo describes in Churchill's Bomb, the British set out to investigate the possibility of building nuclear weapons before their American colleagues. But when scientists in Britain first discovered a way to build an atomic bomb, Prime Minister Winston Churchill did not make the most of his country's lead and was slow to realize the bomb's strategic implications.
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- De MAC24211 en 09-08-21
De: Graham Farmelo
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The Button
- The New Nuclear Arms Race and Presidential Power from Truman to Trump
- De: William J. Perry, Tom Z. Collina
- Narrado por: John Pruden
- Duración: 8 h y 43 m
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Written in an accessible and authoritative voice, The Button reveals the shocking tales and sobering facts of nuclear executive authority throughout the atomic age, delivering a powerful condemnation against ever leaving explosive power this devastating under any one person's thumb.
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Garbage political tripe
- De Bryan Beaty en 03-15-21
De: William J. Perry, y otros
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Sickness: A Post-Apocalyptic Survival Thriller
- What Remains, Book 1
- De: Kellee L. Greene
- Narrado por: Patricia Santomasso
- Duración: 4 h y 32 m
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Kit Easton had struggled her entire life. Things couldn't possibly have gotten any worse for her...until the day they did. Her mother was dying, her husband had long ago become the enemy, they were down to their last dime, and her daughter had distanced herself to avoid everyone and everything. When Kit's sister takes their mother to New York for what is supposed to be a revolutionary, life-saving cure, a disaster no one could have predicted strikes. But it isn't just Kit's family that is affected, it rocks the entire world.
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great storyline and narration
- De Bethany en 02-16-24
De: Kellee L. Greene
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Nuclear Weapons
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: Joseph M. Siracusa
- Narrado por: Shawn Compton
- Duración: 4 h y 29 m
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This Very Short Introduction looks at the science of nuclear weapons and how they differ from conventional weapons. Tracing the story of the nuclear bomb, Joseph Siracusa chronicles the race to acquire the H-bomb, a thermonuclear weapon with revolutionary implications; and the history of early arms control, nuclear deterrence, and nonproliferation. He also tracks the development of nuclear weapons from the origins of the Cold War in 1945 to the end of Moscow-dominated Communism in 1991, and examines the promise and prospect of missile defense.
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- De MGGGK9 en 03-05-24
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The Death of the USS Thresher
- The Story Behind History's Deadliest Submarine Disaster
- De: Norman Polmar
- Narrado por: Sean Crisden
- Duración: 5 h y 6 m
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When she first went to sea in April of 1961, the US nuclear submarine Thresher was the most advanced submarine at sea, built specifically to hunt and kill Soviet submarines. In The Death of the USS Thresher, renowned naval and intelligence consultant Norman Polmar recounts the dramatic circumstances surrounding her implosion, which killed all 129 men onboard in history's first loss of a nuclear submarine.
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I REMEMBER THESE HEROES
- De JustBill en 03-31-20
De: Norman Polmar
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Surface at the Pole
- The Extraordinary Voyages of the USS Skate
- De: James Calvert
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
- Duración: 7 h y 31 m
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Under the guidance of James Calvert this nuclear submarine had navigated through polar ice packs, braved atrociously cold conditions, and broken through layers of thick ice to arrive at their destination; the northernmost point of the world. This mission, however, was not just about completing a seemingly impossibly feat of Arctic exploration. It also had huge implications for military strategy during the height of the Cold War.
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A well written look at history in the making
- De R. Hankins en 11-01-23
De: James Calvert
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T. Rex and the Crater of Doom
- Princeton Science Library
- De: Walter Alvarez, Carl Zimmer - foreword
- Narrado por: Joel Richards
- Duración: 5 h y 31 m
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What caused the extinction of the dinosaurs? Walter Alvarez, one of the Berkeley scientists who discovered evidence of the impact, tells the story behind the development of the initially controversial theory. It is a saga of high adventure in remote locations, of arduous data collection and intellectual struggle, of long periods of frustration ended by sudden breakthroughs, of friendships made and lost, and of the exhilaration of discovery that forever altered our understanding of Earth's geological history.
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Fascinating book!
- De ryan moore en 08-21-20
De: Walter Alvarez, y otros
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Inside the Real Area 51
- The Secret History of Wright Patterson
- De: Thomas Carey, Donald Schmitt
- Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
- Duración: 8 h y 5 m
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The true nature of what actually crashed in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947 remains classified. Only a select few have ever had access to the truth about what became known as Area 51. But what happened to the remnants of that crash is shrouded in even greater mystery. What began in the high desert of New Mexico ended at Wright-Patterson, an ultra top-secret Air Force base in Dayton, Ohio. The physical evidence of extraterrestrial visitation was buried deep within this nuclear stronghold.
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wright pat AFB
- De Dennis F Rumsey en 08-07-18
De: Thomas Carey, y otros
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God & Spies
- Recently Declassified Top Secret Operation
- De: GM Matheny
- Narrado por: Sean Runnette
- Duración: 4 h y 8 m
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God & Spies is a firsthand account of America's greatest intelligence coup. Operation Ivy Bells was not a onetime intercept of foreign intelligence but an ongoing operation of multiple Soviet military channels! "How did I end up as a navy diver, 400 feet down in a frigid Russian sea? After making my dad totally disgusted with me, I set out to make him happy. 'Honor thy father' - I struggled with a decision to serve God. 'Lord, I will give my life to you and serve you if you let me make this dive.'"
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Interesting Insight in to Operation Ivy Bells
- De A. N. Onymous en 05-08-19
De: GM Matheny
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Broken Arrow
- How the U.S. Navy Lost a Nuclear Bomb
- De: Jim Winchester
- Narrado por: Shawn Compton
- Duración: 10 h y 57 m
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Douglas Webster was a young pilot from Ohio, newly married and with 17 combat missions under his belt. On December 5, 1965 he strapped into an A-4 Skyhawk bomber for a routine weapons loading drill and simulated mission. After mishandling the maneuver, the plane and its pilot sunk to the bottom of the South China Sea, along with a live B43 one-megaton thermonuclear bomb. A cover-up mission began.
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Total Ticonderoga
- De Thomas Beyer en 01-22-24
De: Jim Winchester
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Burning the Sky
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- amy caster winegeart
- 02-14-22
fantastic
this historical account is one of the best I've ever listened to. its a must have in the library.
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- Dixie
- 04-20-23
Great Listen
I grew up in the era. Parents worked at Los Alamos. I recall some of the names. Fills some holes fro that time
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- tikill
- 05-21-22
Excellent History
This book looks at a very little known testing program in the early days of ballistic missile defense, using high altitude nuclear explosions to potentially create an atmospheric barrier. With an almost journalistic style, the author goes in-depth into the scientific ideas, but more importantly the personalities and politics of the late 1950s into the early 70s. Fascinating listen on the controversies of the times and the science that proved to be off base.
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- Mike
- 01-19-22
Liked it, and didn't
I really enjoyed the first couple chapters, about Christofilos, but then this book took a strange turn. Kind-of all-over-the-map, like a bunch of historical facts in search of a story-line requiring me to figure out what was important. By the end, felt like a sausage grinder loaded with facts.
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- Amazon Customer
- 03-13-22
Fascinating and under-reported
Amazing story, well written and well produced. A fascinating section of history that few know about. Must read.
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- handydanny
- 05-08-22
Best Sleep Aid in Existence
The Story is compelling and at times captivating, however there never is a single reward. I give Full stars for my heading and the excellent consistency of the narrator whose performance is flawless.
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- Ellis D Vener
- 10-11-23
Fascinating
Great backgrounding for understanding the state of modern warfare. It could have been very dry going but the text and narration made it more lively and engaging than I expected.
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- jerome m.
- 09-20-20
Excellent..... EXCELLENT LISTEN!!!
For the science minded, those that worked as Cold War Worrier's, those who are interested in the Nuclear Age and how we got to where we are today....This is one book I'd certainly recommend.
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- Mark J Mickey
- 09-20-21
Very interesting, but not very entertaining
This was not a bad read. The story was very interesting and it is one that I had never heard before. I thought that the author was much like Stephen King, another author I like a lot, but who I think must get paid by the word. In other words, it might have been a better book overall if it had been about half as long. The narrator was not very interesting to listen to either. Not bad, but not great. But for the story alone, it's a good read.
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- atti
- 01-10-21
Detailed History of Very High Altitude (and Space) Nuclear Weapon Testing
This story tells the story of a series of nuclear tests at extremely high altitude...really some tests were done in space itself. This book follows the man who conceived of a purpose in these tests...as well as following the men, places, ships, and missiles in the tests also. It discussed the nature and results of nuclear fallout from the tests as well. In the end you will have enough information to decide for yourself: Was it worth it? What did we learn?
A must for Cold War and Nuclear Weapon historians.
I enjoyed this book a great deal, and have read it 2-3 times already!
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