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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 16 ratings
    • This Very Short Introduction looks at the science of nuclear weapons and how they differ from conventional weapons....

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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 1,528 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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    • By: Daniel Ellsberg
    • Narrated by: Steven Cooper
    • Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,030 ratings
    • 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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    • The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945
    • By: Michihiko Hachiya MD
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 11-26-14
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 134 ratings
    • The late Dr. Michihiko Hachiya was director of the Hiroshima Communications Hospital when the world's first atomic bomb was dropped on the city....

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    • Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters
    • By: Kate Brown
    • Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
    • Length: 18 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 12-19-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 108 ratings
    • Kate Brown draws on official records and dozens of interviews to tell the extraordinary stories of Richland, Washington, and Ozersk, Russia - the first two cities in the world to produce plutonium....

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    • The Last Train from Hiroshima
    • By: Charles Pellegrino
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 18 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 07-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 85 ratings
    • 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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    • 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 88 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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    • A Global History of Nuclear Disasters
    • By: Serhii Plokhy
    • Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
    • Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 100 ratings
    • Atoms and Ashes recounts the dramatic history of nuclear accidents that have dogged the industry in its military and civil incarnations since the 1950s. Through the stories of six terrifying major incidents, Cold War expert Serhii Plokhy explores the risks of nuclear power....

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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 366 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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    • Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age
    • By: Steve Olson
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 97 ratings
    • It began with plutonium, the first element ever manufactured in quantity by humans. In a matter of months, the Hanford nuclear facility was built to produce and weaponize the enigmatic and deadly new material that would fuel atomic bombs....

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    • A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II
    • By: Jennet Conant
    • Narrated by: John Kroft
    • Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 09-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 104 ratings
    • This is the untold story of an eccentric Wall Street tycoon and the circle of scientific geniuses he assembled before World War II to develop the science for radar and the atomic bomb. Together they changed the course of history....

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    • New, Updated and Completely Revised
    • By: Lawrence Freedman, Jeffrey Michaels
    • Narrated by: Richard Elwood
    • Length: 24 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 07-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • 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....

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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 1,073 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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    • 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 3,150 ratings
    • Famed investigative journalist Eric Schlosser digs deep to uncover secrets about the management of America's nuclear arsenal....

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    • The New Nuclear Arms Race and Presidential Power from Truman to Trump
    • By: William J. Perry, Tom Z. Collina
    • Narrated by: John Pruden
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
    • 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 one person's thumb....

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    • Life After Nuclear War
    • By: Susan Southard
    • Narrated by: Traci Kato-Kiriyama
    • Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 07-28-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 83 ratings
    • Published on the 70th anniversary of the bombing, Nagasaki takes listeners from the morning of the bombing to the city today, telling the firsthand experiences of five survivors....

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