Military - Nuclear Warfare
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Nuclear Weapons: An International History
$38.00 Add to cartA groundbreaking history of nuclear weapons across the world, from their invention to the end of the Cold War
How should we deal with nuclear weapons? The discovery of nuclear fission fundamentally c- Author: Holloway, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0300229445
- Language: English
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Nuclear War: A Scenario
$20.00 Add to cartWITH A NEW AFTERWORD
The INSTANT New York Times bestseller Instant Los Angeles Times bestseller Finalist, Dayton Literary Peace Prize One of NPR’s Books We Love One of Newsweek Staffers’ Favorite Boo- Author: Jacobsen, Annie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 0593476115
- Language: English
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The Nuclear Age: An Epic Race for Arms, Power and Survival
$31.99 Add to cartThe nuclear age came into existence with the explosion of the first atomic bomb in the New Mexico desert on July 16, 1945. The inauguration of this new era was epitomized by the bomb’s principal creat
- Author: Plokhy, Serhii
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1324051175
- Language: English
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The Plutonium Files: America’s Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War
$43.99 Add to cartThe Plutonium Files is the shocking expos? of the US government’s medical experiments on unwitting citizens during the Cold War. Americans recoiled when they learned of the brutal experiments conducte… [more below]
- Author: Welsome, Eileen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 708
- Publish Date: November 18 2024
- ISBN10: 1038326915
- Language: English
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Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters
$18.95 Read moreAlmost 145,000 Americans fled their homes in and around Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in late March 1979, hoping to save themselves from an invisible enemy: radiation. The reactor at the nearby Three Mile
- Author: Plokhy, Serhii
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1324064552
- Language: English
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Manhattan Project: The Untold Story of the Making of the Atomic Bomb
$28.95 Add to cart- Author: Groueff, Stephane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 404
- Publish Date: June 20 2000
- ISBN10: 0595092381
- Language: English
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Sidewinder: Creative Missile Development at China Lake
$28.95 Add to cartIn the mid-1950s a small group of overworked, underpaid scientists and engineers on a remote base in the Mojave Desert developed a weapon no one had asked for but everyone in the weapons industry desi… [more below]
- Author: Westrum, Ron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 15 2013
- ISBN10: 1591149819
- Language: English
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Euromissiles: The Nuclear Weapons That Nearly Destroyed NATO
$36.95 Add to cartIn Euromissiles, Susan Colbourn tells the story of the height of nuclear crisis and the remarkable waning of the fear that gripped the globe.
In the Cold War conflict that pitted nuclear superpowers- Author: Colbourn, Susan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1501766023
- Language: English
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Breakdown: How the Secret of the Atomic Bomb was Stolen during World War II
$16.95 Add to cartThe enormous effort-called the Manhattan Project-that produced the world’s first atomic bomb was supposed to be the best kept secret of World War II. And the Project’s Los Alamos, New Mexico site wher
- Author: Melzer, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: January 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0865343047
- Language: English
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From Berkeley to Berlin: How the Rad Lab Helped Avert Nuclear War
$39.95 Add to cartIn November 1960, bolstered by anti-Communist ideologies, John F. Kennedy was elected president of the United States. Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev brandished nuclear diplomacy to force the United … [more below]
- Author: Ramos, Tom Francis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1682477533
- Language: English
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The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War
$20.00 Add to cartFrom the author of 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 Tru… [more below]
- Author: Kaplan, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1982107308
- Language: English
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Nuclear Weapons: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartNuclear weapons have not been used in anger since the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. Yet even after the Cold War, the Bomb is still the greatest threat fa… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Siracusa, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: December 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0198860536
- Language: English
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Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters
$30.00 Read moreAlmost 145,000 Americans fled their homes in and around Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in late March 1979, hoping to save themselves from an invisible enemy: radiation. The reactor at the nearby Three Mile
- Author: Plokhy, Serhii
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1324021047
- Language: English
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The Manhattan Project: The Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of Its Creators, Eyewitnesses, and Historians
$22.99 Add to cartA first-person historical record of the Manhattan Project, and the events leading to the birth of the Atomic bomb, as told by the researchers, scientists, and developers intimately involved in its cre… [more below]
- Author: Kelly, Cynthia C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0762471271
- Language: English
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Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
$21.00 Add to cartThe Oscar-shortlisted documentary Command and Control, directed by Robert Kenner, finds its origins in Eric Schlosser’s book and continues to explore the little-known history of the management and saf… [more below]
- Author: Schlosser, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: August 26 2014
- ISBN10: 0143125788
- Language: English
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Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-Up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World
$17.99 Add to cartONE of THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 NOTABLE BOOKS of the YEAR * A VANITY FAIR and TOWN & COUNTRY BEST BOOK of the YEAR *
New York Times bestselling author Lesley M.M. Blume reveals how one courageous Am- Author: Blume, Lesley M. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 10 2021
- ISBN10: 1982128534
- Language: English
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The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962
$35.00 Add to cartBestselling author Max Hastings offers a welcome re-evaluation of one of the most gripping and tense international events in modern history–the Cuban Missile Crisis–providing a people-focused narrat
- Author: Hastings, Max
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0062980130
- Language: English
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The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner
$18.99 Read moreShortlisted for the 2018 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction
From the legendary Pentagon Papers whistle-blower, an eyewitness expos? of America’s Top Secret, seventy-year nuclear policy- Author: Ellsberg, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1608196739
- Language: English
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The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962
$24.99 Read more- Author: Hastings, Max
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0062980173
- Language: English
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Nuclear War: A Scenario
$30.00 Add to cartThe INSTANT New York Times bestseller
Instant Los Angeles Times bestseller “In Nuclear War: A Scenario, Annie Jacobsen gives us a vivid picture of what could happen if our nuclear guardians fail…Te- Author: Jacobsen, Annie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 26, 2024
- ISBN10: 0593476093
- Language: English
