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Join Gideon Crew in his second adventure in this high-octane new thriller series from the NEW YORK TIMES bestselling authors. A top nuclear scientist goes mad and takes an innocent family hostage at……続きを見る

How Air Force installations and units operate in a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and high yield explosive environment is an evolving effort. In 2002 the Air Force implemented the coun……続きを見る

This Manual provides a concept of operations as well as functional information necessary to execute a comprehensive and unified response to a nuclear weapon accident. It provides information for pla……続きを見る

"We are thus not only the first country in the world with the capability to produce nuclear weapons that chose not to do so, we are also the first nuclear armed country to have chosen to divest itse……続きを見る

Since the Iranian Revolution more than thirty years ago, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), also known as the Revolutionary Guard, has conducted covert and overt military operations, buil……続きを見る

This book presents material drawn from the public record of General John W. Vessey's serviceー22 June 1982 through 30 September 1985ーas the Tenth Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Arranged in ……続きを見る

This revised, up-to-date, and comprehensive ebook presents a superb collection of authoritative documents detailing the threat posed by electromagnetic pulse (EMP) caused by nuclear weapons and geom……続きを見る

The AEC: Almost a year after World War II ended, Congress established the United States Atomic Energy Commission to foster and control the peacetime development of atomic science and technology. Ref……続きを見る

On February 6, 1981, at his first National Security Council meeting, Ronald Reagan told his advisers: “I will make the decisions.” As Reagan’s Secret War reveals, these words provide the touchstone ……続きを見る

Past history and recent intelligence have shown that New York City (NYC), a critical node of the U.S. economy, is clearly in the terrorist's crosshairs. In order to reduce the probability, lessen th……続きを見る

Throughout the early 1960s, the Joint Chiefs of Staff confronted a series of crises that touched nearly every part of the globe. Cuba, Berlin, the Congo, Saudi Arabia, India, Indonesia, Laos, and So……続きを見る

'History is moving pretty quickly these days, and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts' Ian Fleming Ian Fleming's 007 returns in an original, authorised Bond thriller with a new introducti……続きを見る

The Defense Nuclear Agency presents a comprehensive and informative history of the development and testing of nuclear weapons after World War II, from the earliest atomic bombs through the devastati……続きを見る

A 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 threa……続きを見る

Serious incidents in 2006 (a misshipment to Taiwan of intercontinental ballistic missile [ICBM] components) and 2007 (an unauthorized weapons transfer) alerted the Department of Defense (DoD) to the……続きを見る

Japan 1945. In one of the defining moments of the twentieth century, more than 100,000 people were killed instantly by two atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki by US Air Force B29s. Hundre……続きを見る

Just over six decades ago, the United States was a nation trying to adhere to a largely isolationist outlook, the potential power of the atom was yet to be fully realized and had certainly not been ……続きを見る

Four unclassified Department of Defense documents, approved for public release, provide information on procedures for transporting nuclear weapons. Part 1: Logistic Transportation of Nuclear Weapons……続きを見る

This volume is a history of the acquisition of major weapon systems by the United States armed forces from 1945 to 1960, the decade and a half that spanned the Truman and Eisenhower administrations ……続きを見る

“There are two problems for our species’ survivalーnuclear war and environmental catastrophe, ” says Noam Chomsky in this new book on the two existential threats of our time and their points of inte……続きを見る

This manual integrates major accident and natural disaster procedures and standards for planning, logistical requirements, emergency response actions, emergency response organizational guidelines, e……続きを見る

　 For thirteen days in October of 1962, a truly perilous flirtation with nuclear war developed between the United States and USSR, as the superpowers argued over the installation of Soviet nuclear ……続きを見る

Because the Cold War era (1945-1991) is so recent, and the universe of potentially related properties is so vast, relatively few such properties have been identified, designated as National Historic……続きを見る

In A Nuclear Family Vacation, husband-and-wife journalists Nathan Hodge and Sharon Weinberger hit the road to explore the secretive world of nuclear weaponry. Weaving together first-class travel wri……続きを見る

**A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE Following the trail of espionage and technological innovation, and making use of newly opened archives, Michael D. Gordin provides a new understanding ……続きを見る

In the wake of Californias energy crisis, policymakers rush to satisfy growing demand requirements may run the risk of naively ignoring the larger issues and dangers associated with increased relian……続きを見る

This is a comprehensive history of an important chapter in the history of the Cold War, American atmospheric atomic tests at the Nevada Test Site and elsewhere, providing unique insight into the suc……続きを見る

This unique compilation of two vital national security documents provides an encyclopedic review of nuclear weapons. EFFECTS OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS: The widely-acclaimed definitive standard reference bo……続きを見る

Assigned as a draftee to a hydrogen-bomb test operation in the Marshall Islands, Frank Zagone gives his account of the March 1, 1954 detonation of BRAVO, a 15 megaton superbomb, the most powerful an……続きを見る

Churchill's Bomb - from the author of the Costa award-winning biography The Strangest Man - reveals a new aspect of Winston Churchill's life, so far completely neglected by historians: his relations……続きを見る