Nuclear History

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    • Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age
    • Auteur(s): Steve Olson
    • Narrateur(s): Jonathan Yen
    • Durée: 11 h et 9 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-08-04
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • 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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    • Nuclear Disaster and the Human Cost of Going Critical
    • Auteur(s): Joel Levy
    • Narrateur(s): Kris Dyer
    • Durée: 12 h et 27 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-12-17
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Meltdown investigates and recreates the dramatic events behind the most notorious nuclear accidents in history, as well as those shrouded in secrecy....

    Prix courant: 18,79$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Treachery and Pursuit of the Most Dangerous Spy in History
    • Auteur(s): Frank Close
    • Narrateur(s): Anthony Howell
    • Durée: 20 h et 56 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-08-29
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Trinity by Frank Close....

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    • The Rise of the Nuclear Poor
    • Auteur(s): William Langewiesche
    • Narrateur(s): Tom Weiner
    • Durée: 5 h et 7 min
    • Date de publication: 2007-06-06
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In his shocking and revelatory new work, celebrated journalist William Langewiesche investigates the burgeoning threat of nuclear-weapons production....

    Prix courant: 27,75$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs against Japan, Third Edition
    • Auteur(s): J. Samuel Walker
    • Narrateur(s): Eric Martin
    • Durée: 4 h et 47 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-05-14
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • In this concise account of why America used atomic bombs against Japan in 1945, Walker analyzes the reasons behind President Truman's most controversial decision. In this new edition, Walker incorporates a decade of new research, mostly from Japanese archives only recently made available....

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    • A Cautionary History of the Nuclear Age
    • Auteur(s): Stephanie Cooke
    • Narrateur(s): Erik Davies
    • Durée: 20 h et 59 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-02-28
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • This landmark history of nuclear power is perfectly timed for today, when Americans are gravely concerned with nuclear terrorism....

    Prix courant: 50,06$ ou 1 crédit

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    • America's Atomic Intelligence Operation against Hitler and Stalin
    • Auteur(s): Vince Houghton
    • Narrateur(s): John Lescault
    • Durée: 8 h et 8 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-09-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 évaluations
    • Why did the US intelligence services fail so spectacularly to know about the Soviet Union's nuclear capabilities following World War II? As Vince Houghton, historian and curator of the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC, shows us, that disastrous failure came just a few years....

    Prix courant: 20,02$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Rickover's Leadership Principles and the Rise of the Nuclear Navy
    • Auteur(s): Rear Adm. Dave Oliver USN - Ret.
    • Narrateur(s): Joel Richards
    • Durée: 6 h et 15 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-02-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • The driving force behind America's nuclear submarine navy, Rickover revolutionized naval warfare while concurrently proving to be a wellspring of innovation that drove American technology in the latter half of the 20th-century....

    Prix courant: 17,81$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A History of a Cold War Missile
    • Auteur(s): David Stumpf
    • Narrateur(s): Douglas R. Pratt
    • Durée: 12 h et 6 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-09-05
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • A comprehensive study of the missile system that formed a critical component of the United States' nuclear arsenal....

    Prix courant: 33,01$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Inside Israel's Secret Mission to Eliminate Syrian Nuclear Power
    • Auteur(s): Yaakov Katz
    • Narrateur(s): Christopher Lane
    • Durée: 8 h et 2 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-05-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 évaluations
    • The never-before-told inside story of how Israel stopped Syria from becoming a global nuclear nightmare - and its far-reaching implications....

    Prix courant: 26,00$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Atom in Russian Politics and Culture
    • Auteur(s): Paul R. Josephson
    • Narrateur(s): Leighton Pugh
    • Durée: 4 h et 37 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-12-22
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Nuclear Russia probes the juncture of history of science and technology, political and cultural history, and environmental history....

    Prix courant: 12,29$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How to Stay Safe in a Dangerous World
    • Auteur(s): Chris Ryan
    • Narrateur(s): Michael Fenner
    • Durée: 7 h et 2 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-10-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • How to keep you and yours safe from the perils of the modern world....

    Prix courant: 37,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • How the U.S. Navy Lost a Nuclear Bomb
    • Auteur(s): Jim Winchester
    • Narrateur(s): Shawn Compton
    • Durée: 10 h et 57 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-11-17
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Douglas Webster was a young pilot from Ohio. On December 5, 1965 he strapped into an A-4 Skyhawk bomber. After mishandling a maneuver, the plane and its pilot sunk to the bottom of the South China Sea, along with a live B43 one-megaton thermonuclear bomb....

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    • Living Life and Avoiding Death on a Nuclear Submarine
    • Auteur(s): Richard Humphreys
    • Narrateur(s): Richard Humphreys
    • Durée: 6 h et 49 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-06-02
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • What’s it like to spend three months without sunlight, sharing what little space you have with over 100 fellow crewmen and more firepower than all the bombs dropped in World War II? This memoir reveals the funny, challenging, one-of-a-kind experience that is life on a nuclear submarine....

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    • The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller
    • Auteur(s): Gregg Herken
    • Narrateur(s): Perry Daniels
    • Durée: 15 h et 17 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-05-21
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Gregg Herken's Brotherhood of the Bomb is the fascinating story of the men who founded the nuclear age, fully told for the first time

    Prix courant: 26,30$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Extraordinary Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Ettore Majorana, the Troubled Genius of the Nuclear Age
    • Auteur(s): Joao Magueijo
    • Narrateur(s): Christopher Sullivan
    • Durée: 9 h et 13 min
    • Date de publication: 2009-12-24
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • On the night of March 26, 1938, nuclear physicist Ettore Majorana boarded a ship, cash and passport in hand....

    Prix courant: 29,05$ ou 1 crédit

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    • An American Town’s Story of Faith, Hope, and Nuclear Energy
    • Auteur(s): Casey Bukro
    • Narrateur(s): Adam Barr
    • Durée: 19 h et 18 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-12-12
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • With the acceleration of climate change, the questions and challenges surrounding nuclear power have never been more relevant. Higher Power examines one American town's attempts to build a better society as a bellwether for national policy and decision making....

    Prix courant: 33,40$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Conspiracy, Cover-Up, and the Deceitful Case for the Atom Bomb
    • Auteur(s): Peter Watson
    • Narrateur(s): Peter Ganim
    • Durée: 15 h et 10 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-09-18
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • The justification for the atomic bomb was simple: it would defeat Hitler and end the Second World War faster, saving lives. The reality was different....

    Prix courant: 32,31$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Christopher Gainor
    • Narrateur(s): Tom Perkins
    • Durée: 8 h et 11 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-10-18
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • The intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM was the central weapons system of the Cold War. ICBMs also carried the first astronauts and cosmonauts into orbit. Christopher Gainor explores the US Air Force's decision to build the Atlas, America's first ICBM....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Travels in the World of Atomic Weaponry
    • Auteur(s): Nathan Hodge, Sharon Weinberger
    • Narrateur(s): Laural Merlington
    • Durée: 12 h et 52 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-03-06
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In A Nuclear Family Vacation, husband-and-wife journalists Nathan Hodge and Sharon Weinberger hit the road to explore the secretive world of nuclear weaponry....

    Prix courant: 33,01$ ou 1 crédit

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