Soviet Nuclear

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.

The INSTANT New York Times bestseller Instant Los Angeles Times bestseller Finalist, Dayton Literary Peace Prize One of NPR's Books We Love One of Newsweek Staffers' Favorite Books of the Year Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize “In Nuclear War: A Scenario, Annie Jacobsen gives us a...

The Great Nuclear War of 1975 In a Different 1975… Superpower relations breakdown and a nuclear war all but annihilates the Soviet Union and devastates the United States. 100 million Americans are dead. After Washington is destroyed, a smalltown judge delivers the oath of office to Vice President Rockefeller. Surviving American forces on land, sea and in the air await orders from the new president. Americans across the nation climb out of the rubble looking for a homeland that no longer exists. In surviving capitals across the globe, governments ponder the implications of a world without ...

The Cold War, 1945–1991: A History for General Readers and Students Do you know why the world spent half a century braced for its own destruction? Two words — Cold War. For nearly fifty years, the Cold War was international affairs. Nuclear testing, proxy wars on almost every continent, and a race for supremacy were only a few pieces of a vast global puzzle. Few conflicts in history have shaped the world so completely — and unlike the great wars before it, this one reached almost everywhere, as advances in technology and communications carried the struggle between Washington and ...

The Soviet Nuclear Weapons Program: The History and Legacy of the USSR’s Efforts to Build the Atomic Bomb examines the Soviets’ race to reach the ultimate goal during and after World War II, and how they went about their objectives. You will learn about Nazi Germany’s nuclear weapons program like never before.

There are nights that shape history forever - even if no one notices at the time. On September 26, 1983, in the middle of the Cold War, a Soviet early warning system detected what appeared to be incoming nuclear missiles from the United States. Protocol demanded immediate retaliation. One man stood between signal and catastrophe. Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov had only minutes to decide whether the world was under attack - or if the system was wrong. He chose not to act. This is the true story of the night a single decision may have prevented nuclear war - and changed the course of ...

From an award-winning historian and Chernobyl survivor, a visceral account of the worst nuclear accident in history. "Vividly empathetic." —Wall Street Journal On the morning of April 26, 1986, Europe witnessed the worst nuclear disaster in history: the explosion of a reactor at the Chernobyl...

From international bestselling author Dennis Jones comes the acclaimed cold war military technothriller. “Takes off like a very sophisticated missile...and the ending is a smashing cliffhanger.” – Publishers Weekly. “As scary and credible a nuclear-age thriller as one can tolerate without contemplating suicide. A corker.” – Toronto Star "A damned good book and crackling good story...Rocketing the reader along from cabal to combat.” – Los Angeles Times “Not since Fail-Safe and Seven Days in May has an author delivered such an astonishing thriller!” – Philippe Van Rjndt ...

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.

In a world on the brink of nuclear war, one man stands between peace and global chaos. Following the devastating aftermath of a nuclear detonation in the Panama Canal, the world teeters on the edge of war. The Russian president's claims about a hidden Soviet weapons depot in Georgia escalate tensions, pushing the globe closer to the abyss of conflict. Acting U.S. President Jordan Stratton faces a nation in turmoil, grappling with the shadows of recent terrorist attacks and the critical condition of President Maggie Trousdale.

The world ended in less than an hour. When escalating tensions between the world’s superpowers erupt into global nuclear war, millions die in the opening strikes. Cities vanish beneath firestorms, governments collapse, and civilisation is reduced to ash. Caught in Britain when the bombs fall, brothers Alex and Jason Carhill are thrown into a nightmare of radioactive fallout, freezing darkness and desperate survivors fighting to stay alive. As society unravels around them, Alex must battle not only starvation, disease and violent scavengers, but the terrifying psychological toll of a world...

NUCLEAR DISASTER :: CHERNOBYL :: EXPLAINED FACTS :: WITH IMAGES :: UKRAINE :: USSR Do you really know what happened in Chernobyl? The clock read 01:23:40 in Chernobyl. But what really happened at Reactor 4 at that moment? Did the nuclear disaster end in 1986—or did it only just begin? What has humanity learned from the Chernobyl accident? Much has been said about the nuclear disaster that shook the world in 1986, but what you’ll find in this book is even more intriguing. "20 Facts You Didn't Know About Chernobyl" goes beyond the versions you learned at school or saw in TV series. The ...

Nearly 30 years after the end of the Cold War, today's world 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: the Cuban missile crisis. Serhii Plokhy offers an international perspective on the crisis, tracing the tortuous decision-making that produced and then resolved it, which involved John Kennedy and his advisers, Nikita Khrushchev and Fidel Castro, and their commanders on the ground.

FromNew York Timesbestselling authors Steve Berry and Grant Blackwood comes an action-packed adventure: in the waning days of the Cold War, Luke Daniels embarks on a quest in search of the legendary library of Ivan the Terrible—the unlikely key to ending a looming threat orbiting two hundred...

A bold, provocative, and knowledgeable case for the importance of nuclear science and how nuclear power is essential to reaching net zero. What if net zero is not an environmental challenge, but an energy challenge? In this visionary book, Dr. Tim Gregory challenges prevailing narratives around...

Imagine waking up every morning in a city with no name. You send letters to an address that doesn’t exist. You work on projects you’re not allowed to discuss. And you know that no matter what happens… You can never leave. During the Cold War, the Soviet Union built entire cities in complete secrecy—sealed off from the outside world, erased from maps, and hidden behind layers of military control. These were not temporary facilities or isolated compounds. They were fully functioning cities, home to thousands of people who lived, worked, raised families, and built their lives inside ...

A raid on a California vineyard was supposed to recover one missing girl. It turned up the recordings instead. Every room in the guesthouse was wired, and the tapes go back years. Senators, generals, and a presidential candidate—all of them filmed with women who were never there by accident. The network is Russian. It reaches the top of the American government. And it has been running for thirty years. Thirty years is also how long twenty nuclear warheads have been missing. Two Ukrainian scientists hid them on Russian soil as the Soviet Union collapsed and told no one. The only man alive ...

One Navy admiral called it "one of the greatest unsolved sea mysteries of our era". To this day, the U.S. Navy officially describes it an inexplicable accident. For decades, the real story of the disaster has eluded journalists, historians, and the family members of the lost crew. But a small handful of Navy and government officials knew the truth from the very beginning: the sinking of the nuclear submarine U.S.S. Scorpion and its crew of 99 men, on May 22, 1968, was an act of war.

At 01:23:40 on April 26th 1986, Alexander Akimov pressed the emergency shutdown button at Chernobyl's fourth nuclear reactor. It was an act that forced the permanent evacuation of a city, killed thousands, and crippled the Soviet Union. The event spawned decades of conflicting, exaggerated, and inaccurate stories.

For nearly forty years, the Cold War rested on a terrifying assumption: peace would be preserved through the certainty of mutual destruction. Then, in 1983, President Ronald Reagan challenged the unchallengeable. The Strategic Defense Initiative—quickly labeled “Star Wars”—was not merely a missile defense proposal. It was a direct assault on the logic of Mutually Assured Destruction itself. Critics dismissed it as fantasy. Allies feared destabilization. Moscow saw something far more dangerous: a shift in the strategic balance that threatened to make its nuclear arsenal obsolete. But...