Nuclear Warfare

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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 108 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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    • 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 2 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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    • The True Story of a U.S. Cold War Submarine's Covert Operations Against the Soviet Union
    • Written by: Peter Sasgen
    • Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
    • Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 2017-04-25
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 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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    • Operation Argus and the Untold Story of the Cold War Nuclear Tests in Outer Space
    • Written by: Mark Wolverton
    • Narrated by: John Lescault
    • Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 2018-12-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • As the superpowers engaged in a game of nuclear one-upmanship in the late 1950s, eccentric physicist Nicholas Christofilos brought forth an outlandish, albeit ingenious, idea to defend the US from a Soviet attack....

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    • The New Nuclear Arms Race and Presidential Power from Truman to Trump
    • Written by: William J. Perry, Tom Z. Collina
    • Narrated by: John Pruden
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 2020-08-25
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 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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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • Written by: Joseph M. Siracusa
    • Narrated by: Shawn Compton
    • Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 2020-12-02
    • Language: English
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    • This Very Short Introduction looks at the science of nuclear weapons and how they differ from conventional weapons....

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    • America's Atomic Intelligence Operation against Hitler and Stalin
    • Written by: Vince Houghton
    • Narrated by: John Lescault
    • Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 2019-09-01
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • 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....

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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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    • Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
    • Written by: Eric Schlosser
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Length: 20 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 2013-09-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 99 ratings
    • Famed investigative journalist Eric Schlosser digs deep to uncover secrets about the management of America's nuclear arsenal....

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    • The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race
    • Written by: Richard Rhodes
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Series: Richard Rhodes' Nuclear Histories
    • Length: 14 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 2007-09-26
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • In a narrative that moves like a thriller, Rhodes sheds light on the Reagan administration's unprecedented arms buildup in the early 1980s....

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    • The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
    • Written by: Serhii Plokhy
    • Narrated by: Ralph Lister
    • Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 2018-05-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • From a preeminent historian of Eastern Europe, the definitive history of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster....

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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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    • 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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    • Conscience and Complicity at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age
    • Written by: James L. Nolan Jr.
    • Narrated by: Adam Lofbomm
    • Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 2020-10-20
    • Language: English
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    • 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....

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    • The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962
    • Written by: Max Hastings
    • Narrated by: John Hopkins
    • Length: 19 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 2022-09-29
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was the most perilous event in history, when mankind faced a looming nuclear collision between the United States and Soviet Union. During those weeks, the world gazed into the abyss of potential annihilation....

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    • The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945
    • Written by: Michihiko Hachiya MD
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 2014-11-26
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 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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    • 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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    • How the United States Overtook Britain in the First Nuclear Arms Race
    • Written by: Graham Farmelo
    • Narrated by: Clive Chafer
    • Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 2013-10-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Contrasting Churchill's often inattentive leadership with Franklin Roosevelt's decisiveness, Churchill's Bomb reveals the secret history of the weapon that transformed modern geopolitics....

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