Nuclear Warfare

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    • By: Rodney Barker
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 06-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Hiroshima was one of the great tragedies of WWII. But out of the devastation of the first atomic bomb, some survivors emerged - 25 courageous Japanese women who became part of a remarkable humanitarian epic....

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    • The Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
    • By: Adam Higginbotham
    • Narrated by: Jacques Roy
    • Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 14-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 758 ratings
    • Midnight In Chernobyl is an indelible portrait of one of the great disasters of the 20th century, of human resilience and ingenuity and the lessons learned when mankind seeks to bend the natural world to his will....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Joseph M. Siracusa
    • Narrated by: Shawn Compton
    • Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • This Very Short Introduction looks at the science of nuclear weapons and how they differ from conventional weapons....

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    • The Last Train from Hiroshima
    • By: Charles Pellegrino
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 18 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 21-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 17 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
    • By: Peter Sasgen
    • Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
    • Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 25-04-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 82 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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    • The New Nuclear Arms Race and Presidential Power from Truman to Trump
    • By: William J. Perry, Tom Z. Collina
    • Narrated by: John Pruden
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 25-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 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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    • True Submarine Stories of the Twentieth Century
    • By: Mary Nida Smith
    • Narrated by: Paul Christy
    • Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 20-01-16
    • Language: English
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    • The unbelievable stories of the heroic men who sailed under the sea....

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    • By: Christopher Gainor
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 18-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM was the central weapons system of the Cold War. ICBMs also carried the first astronauts and cosmonauts into orbit. Christopher Gainor explores the US Air Force's decision to build the Atlas, America's first ICBM....

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    • The Extraordinary Voyages of the USS Skate
    • By: James Calvert
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 25-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • 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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    • The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945
    • By: Michihiko Hachiya MD
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 26-11-14
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 49 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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    • America's Atomic Intelligence Operation against Hitler and Stalin
    • By: Vince Houghton
    • Narrated by: John Lescault
    • Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 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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    • Operation Argus and the Untold Story of the Cold War Nuclear Tests in Outer Space
    • By: Mark Wolverton
    • Narrated by: John Lescault
    • Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 11-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 54 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 True Story of General Leslie R. Groves, the Man Behind the Birth of the Atomic Age
    • By: Robert S. Norris
    • Narrated by: Peter Johnson
    • Length: 23 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 04-11-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Revealed for the first time in Racing for the Bomb, Groves played a crucial and decisive role in the planning, timing, and targeting of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki missions....

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    • Conscience and Complicity at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age
    • By: James L. Nolan Jr.
    • Narrated by: Adam Lofbomm
    • Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 20-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • 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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    • Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs against Japan, Third Edition
    • By: J. Samuel Walker
    • Narrated by: Eric Martin
    • Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 14-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In this concise account of why America used atomic bombs against Japan in 1945, Walker analyzes the reasons behind President Truman's most controversial decision. In this new edition, Walker incorporates a decade of new research, mostly from Japanese archives only recently made available....

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    • A New History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
    • By: Serhii Plokhy
    • Narrated by: Roger Davis
    • Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 13-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • The definitive new history of the Cuban Missile Crisis from the author of Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy, winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize....

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    • How Britain Prepared for Nuclear War
    • By: Julie McDowall
    • Narrated by: Julie McDowall
    • Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 57 ratings
    • There have been many histories of the Cold War but Attack Warning Red! is the first book to tell the domestic story of day-to-day life on the nuclear home front....

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    • Reframings
    • By: Noam Chomsky
    • Narrated by: Brian Jones
    • Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 26-05-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 481 ratings
    • Internationally renowned political commentator Noam Chomsky examines America's pursuit and exercise of power in a post-9/11 world....

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