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  • Mushroom Cloud

    Book I of the First Strike Series

    Series Book 1 - First Strike Series
    Mushroom Cloud, a fact-based historical novel, is the first book of The First Strike Trilogy: USA and the Soviet Union are building nuclear arms for a face off in a potential nuclear war in the late 1950's and early 1960's."This novel is so important for everyone who cares about nuclear disarmament because as philosopher George Santayana wrote "Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Wizards of Armageddon

    by Fred Kaplan ...
    Series series Stanford Nuclear Age Series
    This is the untold story of the small group of men who have devised the plans and shaped the policies on how to use the Bomb. The book (first published in 1983) explores the secret world of these strategists of the nuclear age and brings to light a chapter in American political and military history never before revealed. ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Atlante dell'uranio

    Dati e fatti sulla materia prima dell’era nucleare

    Un manuale completo e aggiornato sulla situazione delle centrali nucleari, delle bombe atomiche dislocate intorno al Pianeta, dei depositi delle scorie, delle aree contaminate dagli incidenti nucleari, delle riserve disponibili di uranio.Per comprendere che il nucleare non è, come pensano molti, uno sbiadito ricordo del passato ma una minaccia concreta.L’edizione italiana, con gli ultimi ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Nagasaki

    Life After Nuclear War

    “[A] reminder of just how horrible nuclear weapons are.”—The Wall Street Journal**“A devastating read that highlights man’s capacity to wreak destruction, but in which one also catches a glimpse of all that is best about people.”—San Francisco Chronicle“A poignant and complex picture of the second atomic bomb’s enduring physical and psychological tolls. Eyewitness accounts are visceral and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $10.99 USD

  • Tornado F3

    A Navigator's Eye on Britain's Last Interceptor

    The Tornado F2 had a troubled introduction to service. Unloved by its crews and procured as a political imperative, it was blighted by failures and was developed to counter a threat that disappeared. Modified rapidly before it could be sent to war, the Tornado F3 eventually matured into a capable weapons system, but despite datalinks and new air-to-air weapons, its poor reputation sealed its fate. ... Read more

    $13.14 USD

  • Spooks: The Unofficial History of MI5 from Agent Zig Zag to the D-Day Deception 1939-45

    PO Box 500, London W2; the nondescript address from behind which one of the worlds most famous Secret Services hid: MI5. This book, based on previously secret sources, lifts the lid on Britains Security Service in its battle against German espionage. During the Second World War, the Security Service, through brilliant officers such as Guy Liddell, Dick White and the fearsome spy-breaker, Tin-eye ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • THE BEATLES AND THE BOMB [Box Set]: The Atomic Times and Always On Sunday

    20th Century Memoirs: Face to Face With The Beatles And The Bomb [Boxed Set]

    THE BEATLES AND THE BOMBThanks to my job as the CBS Press Rep on "The Ed Sullivan Show," I was the guy who welcomed John, Paul, George and Ringo to the United States on their first trip to America.Thanks to the US Army, I was turned into a human guinea pig and sent to the South Pacific to watch nukes explode.Here are two tell-alls--one about the glittering and gossipy back stage world of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Prompt and Utter Destruction, Third Edition

    Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs against Japan

    In this concise account of why America used atomic bombs against Japan in 1945, J. Samuel Walker analyzes the reasons behind President Truman's most controversial decision. Delineating what was known and not known by American leaders at the time, Walker evaluates the options available for ending the war with Japan. In this new edition, Walker incorporates a decade of new research--mostly from ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Reagan's Secret War

    The Untold Story of His Fight to Save the World from Nuclear Disaster

    On February 6, 1981, at his first National Security Council meeting, Ronald Reagan told his advisers: “I will make the decisions.” As Reagan’s Secret War reveals, these words provide the touchstone for understanding the extraordinary accomplishments of the Reagan administration, including the decisive events that led to the end of the Cold War.In penning this book, New York Times bestselling ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Wretched Atom

    America's Global Gamble with Peaceful Nuclear Technology

    A groundbreaking narrative of how the United States offered the promise of nuclear technology to the developing world and its gamble that other nations would use it for peaceful purposes. After the Second World War, the United States offered a new kind of atom that differed from the bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This atom would cure diseases, produce new foods, make deserts bloom, ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons

    by Ward Wilson ...
    “Brilliant, original, and important—the best analysis yet of why nuclear weapons don’t work.” —Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic BombNuclear weapons have always been a serious but seemingly insoluble problem: while they’re obviously dangerous, they are also, apparently, necessary. This groundbreaking study shows why five central arguments promoting nuclear ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Patrolling the Cold War Skies

    Reheat Sunset

    by Philip Keeble ...
    A RAF pilot’s view of the Cold War, which conveys the excitement, danger and comedy of flying during that momentous historic period. Crafted to satisfy all aviation enthusiasts, novice and professional alike The Cold War is the hot topic of the moment. This book covers 28 years of patrolling the Cold War skies in reconnaissance Canberras and air defence Phantoms and Tornados Flying in the heat ... Read more

    $9.19 USD

  • Raid on the Sun

    Inside Israel's Secret Campaign that Denied Saddam the Bomb

    by Rodger Claire ...
    The first authorized inside account of one of the most daring—and successful—military operations in recent historyFrom the earliest days of his dictatorship, Saddam Hussein had vowed to destroy Israel. So when France sold Iraq a top-of-the-line nuclear reactor in 1975, the Israelis were justifiably concerned—especially when they discovered that Iraqi scientists had already formulated a secret ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Pandora's Keepers

    Nine Men and the Atomic Bomb

    There Were Nine of Them: men with the names Oppenheimer, Teller, Fermi, Bohr, Lawrence, Bethe, Rabi, Szilard, and Compton-brilliant men who believed in science and who saw before anyone else did the awesome workings of an invisible world.They came from many places, some fleeing Nazism in Europe, others quietly slipping out of university teaching jobs, all gathering in secret wartime laboratories ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • When Angels Wept: A What-If History of the Cuban Missile Crisis

    In 1961 at the Bay of Pigs, CIA-trained and -organized Cuban exiles aiming to overthrow Fidel Castro were soundly defeated. Most were taken prisoner by Cuban armed forces. Fearing another U.S. invasion of its new ally, the Soviet Union sneaked into Cuba strategic missiles tipped with nuclear warheads and Soviet troops armed with tactical nuclear weapons. However, a U-2 spy plane flight would soon ... Read more

    $16.95 USD

  • 15 Minutes

    General Curtis LeMay and the Countdown to Nuclear Annihilation

    Packed with startling revelations, this inside look at the secret side of the Cold War exposes just how close America came to total annihilationDuring the Cold War, a flight crew had 15 minutes to get their nuke-laden plane in the air from the moment Soviet bombers were detected—15 minutes between the earliest warning of an incoming nuclear strike and the first flash of an enemy warhead. This is ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • La guerra. È in gioco la nostra vita

    La guerra avanza, ma non è quella che il mainstream politico-mediatico fa apparire ai nostri occhi. Per capirlo non si può restare al fermoimmagine di ciò che accade in Ucraina. Si deve guardare il docufilm degli eventi che, dalla fine della Seconda guerra mondiale ad oggi, hanno portato all'attuale situazione. Cruciale è il momento in cui, finita la Guerra fredda con la disgregazione dell'URSS, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Atomic Doctors

    Conscience and Complicity at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age

    An unflinching examination of the moral and professional dilemmas faced by physicians who took part in the Manhattan Project.After his father died, James L. Nolan, Jr., took possession of a box of private family materials. To his surprise, the small secret archive contained a treasure trove of information about his grandfather’s role as a doctor in the Manhattan Project. Dr. Nolan, it turned out, ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Skybolt

    At Arms Length

    by Nicholas Hill ...
    The untold story of the hitherto secret projects that lead to the development of inertial navigation in the UK, and the many missiles that were designed for the RAF's bomber force. The result was the Blue Steel missile, which was deployed in 1963. These were cruise type missiles, and in 1959 the RAF decided to participate in the American Skybolt air launched ballistic missile. But Skybolt was ... Read more

    $9.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Avro Vulcan

    A History

    The delta-wing design of the subsonic bomber Avro Vulcan was years ahead of its time in terms of design when the Ministry accepted the proposal in 1947. Based on top secret Luftwaffe material after the end of the Second World War, the first prototype flew on 18 May 1951 and it went on to serve in the RAF from 1952 to 1984. During this time it carried Britain s first nuclear weapon, the gravity ... Read more

    $7.88 USD

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    This book is about the Cuban missile crisis.This book is a short description of this momentous event and the factors that led up to it.Before you start this book ask yourself these questions.What do you know about the Cuban missile crisis?Are you keen to learn about it?The book tells you about the Cuban missile crisis and describes its background, its historical context and the leading people ... Read more

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  • Arsenals of Folly

    Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes delivers a riveting account of the nuclear arms race and the Cold War.In the Reagan-Gorbachev era, the United States and the Soviet Union came within minutes of nuclear war, until Gorbachev boldly launched a campaign to eliminate nuclear weapons, setting the stage for the 1986 Reykjavik summit and the incredible events that followed. In this thrilling, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $9.99 USD

  • Confessions of a Phantom Pilot

    Memories of Flying the Phantom FGR2

    by Tug Wilson ...
    ‘The Confessions of a Phantom Pilot’ is the true story of a young RAF pilot who gets his dream to fly the old dirty workhorse fighter of the Cold War. From the first flight where he thought the jet was trying to kill him, through to his final trip of leading eight aeroplanes on a front line fighter squadron, you will relive his thoughts, feelings and anxieties as he stumbles his way through each ... Read more

    $9.19 USD

  • The Day We Lost the H-Bomb

    Cold War, Hot Nukes, and the Worst Nuclear Weapons Disaster in History

    by Barbara Moran ...
    In The Day We Lost the H-Bomb, science writer Barbara Moran marshals a wealth of new information and recently declassified material to give the definitive account of the Cold War’s biggest nuclear weapons disaster. On January 17, 1966, a U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber exploded over the sleepy Spanish farming village of Palomares during a routine airborne refueling. The explosion killed seven airmen ... Read more

    $6.99 USD $4.99 USD