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 119 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 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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    • 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 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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    • 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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    • 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 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 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 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 Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy
    • Written by: David E. Hoffman
    • Narrated by: Bob Walter
    • Length: 20 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 2009-10-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • The Dead Hand is the suspense-filled story of the people who sought to brake the speeding locomotive of the arms race, then rushed to secure the nuclear and biological weapons left behind by the collapse of the Soviet Union—a dangerous legacy that haunts us even today....

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    • A Life Inside the Center
    • Written by: Ray Monk
    • Narrated by: Michael Goldstrom
    • Length: 35 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 2013-05-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Robert Oppenheimer was among the most brilliant and divisive of men....

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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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    • Written by: Daniel Ellsberg
    • Narrated by: Steven Cooper
    • Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 2017-12-05
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • The Doomsday Machine is Ellsberg's hair-raising insider's account of the most dangerous arms buildup in the history of civilization....

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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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    • 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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    • Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis
    • Written by: Martin J. Sherwin
    • Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
    • Length: 18 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 2020-10-13
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In this groundbreaking look at the Cuban Missile Crisis, Martin Sherwin not only gives us a riveting sometimes hour-by-hour explanation of the crisis itself, but also explores the origins, scope, and consequences of the evolving place of nuclear weapons in the post-World War II world....

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