Nuclear Warfare
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Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II
$23.00 Read moreA riveting, immersive account of the agonizing decision to use nuclear weapons against Japan–a crucial turning point in World War II and geopolitical history–with you-are-there immediacy by the New … [more below]
- Author: Thomas, Evan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 0399589279
- Language: English
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Hiroshima: The Last Witnesses
$36.00 Add to cartThe first volume in a two-book series about each of the atomic bomb drops that ended the Pacific War based on years of irreplicable personal interviews with survivors to tell a story of devastation an… [more below]
- Series: Embers
- Author: Sheftall, M. G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 059347225X
- Language: English
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Polonium in the Playhouse: The Manhattan Project’s Secret Chemistry Work in Dayton, Ohio
$26.95 Add to cartAt the height of the race to build an atomic bomb, an indoor tennis court in one of the Midwest’s most affluent residential neighborhoods became a secret Manhattan Project laboratory. Polonium in the … [more below]
- Series: Trillium
- Author: Thomas, Linda Carrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 21 2018
- ISBN10: 0814254047
- Language: English
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The Gathering Storm
$25.00 Add to cartThe first in Winston Churchill’s monumental six-volume account of the struggle between the Allied Powers in Europe against Germany and the Axis during World War II.
Told from the unique viewpoint of t… [more below]
- Series: Second World War #0001
- Author: Churchill, Winston S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: May 09 1986
- ISBN10: 039541055X
- 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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One Sunny Day: A Child’s Memories of Hiroshima
$29.95 Read more“Every year when the days begin to stretch and the penetrating heat of summer rises to a scorching point, I am brought back to one sunny day in a faraway land. I was a young child waiting for my mothe
- Author: Snider, Hideko Tamura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: November 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0870712330
- 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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Second Nuclear Age
$24.99 Add to cartA leading international security strategist offers a compelling new way to “think about the unthinkable.”
The cold war ended more than two decades ago, and with its end came a reduction in the threat- Author: Bracken, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 26 2013
- ISBN10: 1250037352
- Language: English
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The Bomb
$13.95 Add to cartHoward Zinn’s personal, historical, and political views on the significance of the US bombings of Royan and Hiroshima.
- Series: City Lights Open Media
- Author: Zinn, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: August 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0872865096
- Language: English
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The Hanford Plaintiffs: Voices from the Fight for Atomic Justice
$27.99 Add to cartFor more than four decades beginning in 1944, the Hanford nuclear weapons facility in southeastern Washington State secretly blanketed much of the Pacific Northwest with low-dose ionizing radiation, t… [more below]
- Author: Pritikin, Trisha T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: February 25 2020
- ISBN10: 0700629041
- Language: English
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Atomic America: How a Deadly Explosion and a Feared Admiral Changed the Course of Nuclear History
$21.95 Add to cart“Incorporating the career of Admiral Hyman Rickover, the creator of the nuclear navy, Tucker’s work importantly recalls a forgotten warning from nuclear history.”–Gilbert Taylor, Booklist
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- Author: Tucker, Todd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0803234023
- Language: English
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Hiroshima Notes
$17.00 Add to cartHiroshima Notes is a powerful statement on the Hiroshima bombing and its terrible legacy by the 1994 Nobel laureate for literature. Oe’s account of the lives of the many victims of Hiroshima and the v… [more below]
- Author: Oe, Kenzaburo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 07 1996
- ISBN10: 0802134645
- Language: English
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Defusing Armageddon: Inside Nest, America’s Secret Nuclear Bomb Squad
$25.99 Add to cartJeffrey T. Richelson reveals the history of the Nuclear Emergency Support Team, from the events leading to its creation in 1974 to today. Defusing Armageddon provides a behind-the-scenes look at NEST’… [more below]
- Author: Richelson, Jeffrey T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0393349594
- 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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To Hell and Back: The Last Train from Hiroshima
$34.43 Add to cartThis book offers readers a stunning, “you are there” time capsule. Pellegrino’s scientific authority and relationship with the A-bomb survivors make his account the most gripping and authoritative eve… [more below]
- Series: Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
- Author: Pellegrino, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 07 2019
- ISBN10: 1538121786
- Language: English
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Japan at War: An Oral History
$39.67 Read moreA “deeply moving book” (Studs Terkel) and the first ever oral history to document the experience of ordinary Japanese people during World War II
“Hereafter no one will be able to think, write, or teach
- Author: Cook, Haruko Taya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 01 1993
- ISBN10: 1565840399
- 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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Made in Hanford: The Bomb That Changed the World
$22.95 Read moreOn the eve of World War II, news of an astonishing breakthrough filtered out of Germany. Scientists there had split uranium atoms. Researchers in the United States scrambled to verify results and furt
- Author: Williams, Hill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0874223075
- Language: English
