Nuclear War History

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    • A Scenario
    • Written by: Annie Jacobsen
    • Narrated by: Annie Jacobsen
    • Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 2024-03-26
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 132 ratings
    • There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in a matter of hours: nuclear war. And one of the triggers for that war would be a nuclear missile inbound toward the United States.

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    • From Hunter-Gatherers to Nuclear Superpowers—A Retelling for Our Times
    • Written by: Gwynne Dyer
    • Narrated by: Gareth Richards
    • Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 2022-09-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • War has always been a defining feature of human society. This new addition to the Shortest History series explains why we do it—and how we can stop....

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    • The Last Train from Hiroshima
    • Written by: Charles Pellegrino
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 18 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 2020-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 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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    • Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War
    • Written by: Fred Kaplan
    • Narrated by: Edward Bauer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 2020-01-28
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • From the author the classic The Wizards of Armageddon and Pulitzer Prize finalist comes the definitive history of American policy on nuclear war - and Presidents’ actions in nuclear crises - from Truman to Trump....

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    • Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters
    • Written by: Kate Brown
    • Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
    • Length: 18 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 2017-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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 History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States
    • Written by: Alex Wellerstein
    • Narrated by: John McLain
    • Length: 17 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 2021-10-26
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Drawing on troves of declassified files, Restricted Data traces the complex evolution of the US nuclear secrecy regime from the first whisper of the atomic bomb through the mounting tensions of the Cold War and into the early 21st century....

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    • The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
    • Written by: Richard Rhodes
    • Narrated by: Jacques Roy
    • Length: 28 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 2024-11-26
    • Language: English
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    • Here, for the first time, in a brilliant, panoramic portrait by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, is the definitive, often shocking story of the politics and the science behind the development of the hydrogen bomb and the birth of the Cold War.

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    • The Extraordinary Voyages of the USS Skate
    • Written by: James Calvert
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 2020-02-25
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Under the guidance of James Calvert this nuclear submarine had navigated through polar ice packs, braved atrociously cold conditions, and broken through layers of thick ice to arrive at their destination; the northernmost point of the world....

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    • War in the Nuclear Disaster Zone
    • Written by: Serhii Plokhy
    • Narrated by: David Furr
    • Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 2024-11-12
    • Language: English
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    • A harrowing account of Russia’s occupation of the Chernobyl and Zaporizhia nuclear power plants and the dangers of nuclear power colliding with warfare.

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    • MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War
    • Written by: H. W. Brands
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Length: 15 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 2016-10-11
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • The riveting story of how President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur squared off to decide America's future in the aftermath of World War II....

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    • The Story of the U.S. Government's Secret Plan to Save Itself - While the Rest of Us Die
    • Written by: Garrett M. Graff
    • Narrated by: Jacques Roy
    • Length: 18 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 2017-05-02
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • A fresh window on American history: the eye-opening truth about the government's secret plans to survive a catastrophic attack on US soil, even if the rest of us die....

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    • Written by: Michael Marino
    • Narrated by: Michael Marino
    • Length: 4 mins
    • Release date: 2022-06-23
    • Language: English
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    • Nuclear War BEFORE recounts an ancient description of what was undoubtedly a nuclear war in India thousands of years ago, and was referenced in our era by J. Robert Oppenheimer the moment we detonated our first atomic bomb in 1945....

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    • The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb
    • Written by: Sam Kean
    • Narrated by: Ben Sullivan
    • Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 2019-07-09
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • From New York Times best-selling author Sam Kean comes the gripping, untold story of a renegade group of scientists and spies determined to keep Adolf Hitler from obtaining the ultimate prize: a nuclear bomb....

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    • A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II
    • Written by: Jennet Conant
    • Narrated by: John Kroft
    • Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 2018-09-25
    • Language: English
    • 1 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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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    • The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
    • Written by: Richard Rhodes
    • Narrated by: Richard Rhodes
    • Length: 6 hrs
    • Release date: 2010-03-01
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb lays bare the secret heart of the Cold War....

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    • The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days That Changed the World
    • Written by: Chris Wallace, Mitch Weiss
    • Narrated by: Chris Wallace
    • Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 2020-06-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • From Chris Wallace, the veteran journalist and anchor of Fox News Sunday comes a behind-the-scenes account of the 116 days leading up to the American attack on Hiroshima....

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    • Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
    • Written by: Michael Dobbs
    • Narrated by: Bob Walter
    • Length: 16 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 2008-08-29
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • In October 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union appeared to be sliding inexorably toward a nuclear conflict....

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    • A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
    • Written by: Serhii Plokhy
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 2021-06-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 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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