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There are as many as 60 miles of underground tunnels beneath Wiltshire, England alone. While some of these abandoned and decaying subterranean spaces are playgrounds for urban explorers, others have been shrouded in secrecy for decades. This bunker-busting journey to some of Britain's dark and forgotten places will give you the chance to peek behind the heavy blast-proof doors of some of the country's best-kept underground secrets.

Tens of millions died during World War II as the warring powers raced to create the best fighter planes, tanks, and guns, and eventually that race extended to bombs which carried enough power to destroy civilization itself. While the war raged in Europe and the Pacific, a dream team was working on the Manhattan Project in America, a program kept so secret that Vice President Harry Truman didn’t know about it until he took the presidency after FDR’s death in April 1945. During this time, J. Robert Oppenheimer emerged as an extraordinary scientific mind in the United States.

President Eisenhower led us to victory in World War II. He then led our country as President for 8 years. He understood war and he understood how Washington worked. The major message he gave us as he left the presidency was: Beware of the Military Industrial Complex. His warning was very appropriate but it was not heeded by our nation. I know because I not only witnessed it being ignored, but I participated in using the power of the Military Industrial Complex during my aerospace career. Reagan's Star Wars describes why and how the power of the Military Industrial Complex gave birth to the Strategic Defense Initiative known as Star Wars.

Author David Alexander's Puzzle Palace is a remarkable achievement. The Pentagon is more than building, symbol or icon; from almost the first moment of its construction it became one of the world’s most critical power centers. Puzzle Palace tells the story of the Pentagon from its beginnings in the years between the two World Wars to the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 and beyond in panoramic prose that combines virtuoso writing with sure-handed scholarship and penetrating insights. Puzzle Palace is nonfiction that is written with a novelist's brilliance and a scholar's keenly ...

Survival Under Atomic Attack is a film produced in 1951 by the U.S. Office of Civil Defense during the early Cold War era. Narrated by journalist Edward R. Murrow, the film was designed to educate American civilians on how to respond during a nuclear attack. The film outlines the three main dangers of an atomic bomb—blast, heat, and radiation—and provides practical advice for protection.

«Homeland» se encuentra con «John Wick» en las colinas de Carolina del Norte. Cuando una célula terrorista local del ISIS ataca Fort Bragg, el patio trasero de la Fuerza Delta, cometen un gran error: enfadan a Bob Burke y la guerra contra el terrorismo se convierte en algo personal. Libro n.º 3 de la serie de 10 libros de acción y suspense de Bob Burke. ¡4,5 estrellas en 746 reseñas de Amazon! Pensaban que estaban enviando un mensaje a Estados Unidos al detonar un coche bomba y matar al comandante general del Mando de Operaciones Especiales. En cambio, lo convirtieron en algo ...

This book analyses the events leading up to the cluster munitions ban, the provisions of the treaty, as well as assesses the progress made in the years since towards a world without the presence of cluster munitions. Cluster bombs are weapons that are small but deadly. They often look like small metal canisters, and some of them are painted, giving them the innocuous appearance of a soda can. The unexploded submunitions that are scattered on the ground, in effect, act as landmines, that can kill or severely injure anyone who comes across them, sometimes even years and decades later. It has ...

This engaging autobiography traces the life of a shy, insular lad, born into an Army family with roots in the rural South, who gained an unlikely acceptance to the fledgling Air Force Academy in 1957, survived a career punctuated by an unrelenting series of personal and professional crises, and took command of the the Air Force's strategic nuclear forces just as the Cold War was drawing to a close. Seizing the moment, General Lee Butler won Presidential approval for a merger of the bombers and land-based missiles in his charge with the Navy's ballistic missile bearing submarines. This long ...

Estamos en el año 47 a. C.: la guerra civil está llegando a su fin y la República romana se está desmoronando. Quintilio, un agrimensor civil experto en cartografía, participa en una peligrosa expedición que lo lleva más allá de los límites de la República y del Danubio, hasta el remoto Reino del Bósforo, la actual Crimea, para estudiar una nueva ruta terrestre que permita a las legiones romanas llegar hasta allí. Este reino lejano, convertido en un estado vasallo de Roma tras las campañas de Pompeyo, busca recuperar su independencia en esos años. Entre los expedicionarios se ...

Brought to you by Penguin. When the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in August 1945, killing 100,000 men, women and children, it was the beginning of a terrifying new episode in human history. Written only a year after the disaster, John Hersey brought the event vividly alive with this...

"Historias verídicas de mujeres heroicas" (True Stories of Girl Heroines) de la prolífica autora Evelyn Everett-Green, es una colección de relatos biográficos que rinden homenaje a la resiliencia, el coraje y la valentía de mujeres jóvenes y extraordinarias a lo largo de la historia. A través de sus páginas, el lector descubrirá las vidas cautivadoras de jóvenes que desafiaron normas sociales, superaron obstáculos personales y se alzaron victoriosas en circunstancias extremas. Desde pioneras y activistas hasta aquellas que realizaron actos revolucionarios por la justicia o ...

The world’s first atomic bomb was detonated July 16, 1945 at Alamogordo, New Mexico…or was it the second? Set in 1939 with locations in Europe, Asia, and America, The Battle concludes the saga of four strangers on a perilous journey to the Far East where a Nazi Condor aircraft has crashed on a mountain, its precious cargo scattered across a towering ridge. The Spanish missionary flees his nation's civil war after losing the woman he loved. The Indian hunter scours the Himalaya for his sister's murderers. The American reporter tracks the secret document that killed her journalist husband...

अविनाश धर्माधिकारी यांचे गाजलेले व्याख्यान 'जय भारत जय जगत भाग १ -अण्वस्त्र...

Presentamos el sexto Anuario de la Academia de las Ciencias y las Artes Militares (ACAMI) que abarca el ciclo académico comprendido entre el uno de septiembre de 2024 y el treinta y uno de agosto de 2025. Con su publicación se pretende reflejar la actividad de la corporación fruto del esfuerzo de los 45 académicos de número (uno de ellos «electo» a la espera de su toma de posesión en septiembre de 2025), 2 académicos de mérito, 1 académico de honor, 77 académicos correspondientes y 5 colaboradores que han formado la academia durante el curso.

Este libro reúne una selección de efemérides elaboradas por miembros de la Academia de las Ciencias y las Artes Militares, correspondientes a los ciclos académicos 2023/2024 y 2024/2025, con el propósito de acercar al lector hechos y aniversarios relevantes de la vida militar y civil. Los acontecimientos recogidos, aunque sucedieron en tiempos pasados, mantienen su influencia en el presente y han contribuido al desarrollo científico, político y cultural de España. . Las efemérides incluidas son fruto de un trabajo de investigación riguroso, presentado de manera breve y concisa, ...

La idea primigenia de elaborar este libro surge con motivo del fallecimiento prematuro del militar, escritor, académico, matemático y analista Andrés González Martín, miembro de la Sección de Pensamiento, Legislación y Moral Militar de esta Academia. Al observar su legado escrito nos encontramos con una mente humanista construida con la solidez de la matemática. Su capacidad de prospectiva, de desarrollo lógico y despliegue de sus ideas, fruto de tal convergencia, es destacable, como atestiguan su obra escrita y su discurso público. Por ello, los autores, sus amigos, han querido ...

In a world divided by the ideological struggles of the Cold War, the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement, more than one-fifth of the people on the planet paused to watch the live transmission of the Apollo 11 mission. To watch as humanity took a giant leap forward. A companion book to the...

At 9:20 a.m. on the morning of May 30, General Groves receives a message to report to the office of the secretary of war “at once.” Stimson is waiting for him. He wants to know: has Groves selected the targets yet? So begins this suspenseful, impeccably researched history that draws on new...

Describes the ambivalence of observers that the Civil War was won by automation and mechanization, not heroism and gallantry. Discusses many of the same issues many people have with internet efficiencies conquering many fields and delivering outsized profits with employees being unimportant to the success, profits, and growth of these companies.

In mid-2017, President Donald Trump let Kim Jong-un know that if his threats continued they would be met with “fire and fury the likes the world has never seen”. The scorching tweet went viral immediately. In response, the North Korean leader detonated a 100-kiloton hydrogen bomb, a successful test of a nuclear device which would be mounted on future missiles.