Nuclear Warfare list 21

THE BEATLES AND THE BOMB [Box Set]: The Atomic Times and Always On Sunday

20th Century Memoirs: Face to Face With The Beatles And The Bomb [Boxed Set]

by Michael Harris
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014

THE BEATLES AND THE BOMB Thanks to my job as the CBS Press Rep on "The Ed Sullivan Show," I was the guy who welcomed John, Paul, George and Ringo to the United States on their first trip to America. Thanks to the US Army, I was turned into a human guinea pig and sent to...

Einstein's Genius Club

The True Story of a Group of Scientists Who Changed the World

by Burton Feldman
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011

As World War II wound down and it became increasingly clear that the Allies would emerge victorious, Albert Einstein invited three close friends-all titans of contemporary science and philosophy-to his home at 112 Mercer Street in Princeton, New Jersey, to discuss what they loved best-science and...

Robert Oppenheimer

A Life Inside the Center

by Ray Monk
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013

Robert Oppenheimer was among the most brilliant and divisive of men. As head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, he oversaw the successful effort to beat the Nazis in the race to develop the first atomic bomb—a breakthrough that was to have eternal ramifications for mankind and that made Oppenheimer the...

Manhattan Project

The Birth of the Atomic Bomb in the Words of Its Creators, Eyewitnesses, and Historians

by Cynthia C. Kelly
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2009

This book chronicles the top-secret Manhattan Project -- the U.S. effort to develop, test, and use an atomic bomb - and the project's legacy. This story is told through unique first-hand accounts, oral histories, and contemporary documents. The Manhattan Project features first-hand material...

Now It Can Be Told

The Story Of The Manhattan Project

by General Leslie R. Groves
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009

General Leslie Groves and J. Robert Oppenheimer were the two men chiefly responsible for the building of the first atomic bomb at Los Alamos, code name "The Manhattan Project." As the ranking military officer in charge of marshalling men and material for what was to be the most ambitious,...

The Bomb

A Life

by Gerard DeGroot
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011

Before the Bomb, there were simply 'bombs', lower case. But it was the twentieth century, one hundred years of almost incredible scientific progress, that saw the birth of the Bomb, the human race's most powerful and most destructive discovery. In this magisterial and enthralling account, Gerard...

Prompt and Utter Destruction, Third Edition

Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs against Japan

by J. Samuel Walker
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016

In this concise account of why America used atomic bombs against Japan in 1945, J. Samuel Walker analyzes the reasons behind President Truman's most controversial decision. Delineating what was known and not known by American leaders at the time, Walker evaluates the options available for ending the...

The Last Raid: How World War II Ended, August 1945

by Daniel Ford
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016

While the Japanese war cabinet argued about whether to surrender, and on what terms, the U.S. Army Strategic Air Force on Guam and Tinian geared up for a thousand-plane raid upon the Empire. It would be the last air raid of the Second World War. This little book, which first appeared in Air &...

Final Verdict

What Really Happened in the Rosenberg Case

by Walter Schneir, Miriam Schneir
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2010

A new narrative of the famed case that finally solves its remaining mysteries, by the author of the bestselling Invitation to an Inquest Walter and Miriam Schneir’s 1965 bestseller Invitation to an Inquest was among the first critical accounts of the controversial case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg,...

More on War

by Martin van Creveld
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017

'War is the most important thing in the world', writes Martin van Creveld, one of the world's best-known experts on military history and strategy. The survival of every country, government, and individual is ultimately dependent on war - or the ability to wage it in self-defence. That is why, though...

The Atomic Bomb and the Origins of the Cold War

by Prof. Campbell Craig, Prof. Sergey S Radchenko
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008

After a devastating world war, culminating in the obliteration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it was clear that the United States and the Soviet Union had to establish a cooperative order if the planet was to escape an atomic World War III. In this provocative study, Campbell Craig and...

Doomsday Men

The Real Dr. Strangelove and the Dream of the Superweapon

by P. D. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2007

This is the gripping, untold story of the doomsday bomb—the ultimate weapon of mass destruction. In 1950, Hungarian-born scientist Leo Szilard made a dramatic announcement on American radio: science was on the verge of creating a doomsday bomb. For the first time in history, mankind realized that...

THOR

Anatomy of a Weapon System

by Geoff Goodchild
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2017

Thor: Anatomy of a Weapon System examines the technical aspects of the Thor intermediate-range ballistic missile. The missile and its ground support equipment are covered in detail. The guidance system is conveniently spread across two chapters and includes a sub-section to help understanding of the...

The United States Strategic Bombing Survey: The Effects of Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, June 30, 1946 - Casualties, Radiation Disease, Japanese Decision to Surrender

Cover of The United States Strategic Bombing Survey: The Effects of Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, June 30, 1946 - Casualties, Radiation Disease, Japanese Decision to Surrender