Tsar Bomba

Author : Jonas Fox
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781521277225
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tsar Bomba written by Jonas Fox and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1993: CIA operative XP tracks a Japanese doomsday cult who have their hands on the most powerful bomb the Earth has ever known. Tsar Bomba, the new novel by Jonas Fox, is a thrilling work of historical fiction inspired by true, and very weird, events. Published by Harvard Square Press - Cambridge, MA, USA (harvardsquarepress.com).

Author : Alex Wellerstein
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226833445
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Restricted Data written by Alex Wellerstein and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2024-04-23 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full history of US nuclear secrecy, from its origins in the late 1930s to our post–Cold War present. The American atomic bomb was born in secrecy. From the moment scientists first conceived of its possibility to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and beyond, there were efforts to control the spread of nuclear information and the newly discovered scientific facts that made such powerful weapons possible. The totalizing scientific secrecy that the atomic bomb appeared to demand was new, unusual, and very nearly unprecedented. It was foreign to American science and American democracy—and potentially incompatible with both. From the beginning, this secrecy was controversial, and it was always contested. The atomic bomb was not merely the application of science to war, but the result of decades of investment in scientific education, infrastructure, and global collaboration. If secrecy became the norm, how would science survive? Drawing on troves of declassified files, including records released by the government for the first time through the author’s efforts, Restricted Data traces the complex evolution of the US nuclear secrecy regime from the first whisper of the atomic bomb through the mounting tensions of the Cold War and into the early twenty-first century. A compelling history of powerful ideas at war, it tells a story that feels distinctly American: rich, sprawling, and built on the conflict between high-minded idealism and ugly, fearful power.

Author : Krzysztof Dabrowski
Publisher : Europe@war
ISBN 13 : 9781913336318
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dropping the Big Ones written by Krzysztof Dabrowski and published by Europe@war. This book was released on 2021-02-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first English-language publication providing a detailed reconstruction of live-testing of nuclear weapons by crews of the Soviet Bomber Aviation.

Author : Gerard DeGroot
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446449610
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bomb written by Gerard DeGroot and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 DeGroot gives us the life story of the Bomb, from its birth in the turn-of-the-century physics labs of Europe to a childhood in the New Mexico desert of the 1940s, from adolescence and early adulthood in Nagasaki and Bikini, Australia and Siberia to unsettling maturity in test sites and missile silos all over the globe. By turns horrific, awe-inspiring and blackly comic, The Bomb is never less than compelling.

Author : Simon Winchester
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141889896
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bomb, Book and Compass written by Simon Winchester and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2008-09-25 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before fate intervened, Joseph Needham was a distinguished biochemist at Cambridge University, married to a fellow scientist. In 1937 he was asked to supervise a young Chinese student named Lu Gwei-Djen, and in that moment began the two greatest love affairs of his life - Miss Lu, and China. Miss Lu inspired Needham to travel to China where he initially spent three dangerous years as a wartime diplomat. He established himself as the pre-eminent China scholar of all time, firm in his belief that China would one day achieve world prominence. By the end of his life, Needham had become a truly global figure, travelling endlessly and honoured by all - though banned from America because of his politics. And in 1989, after a fifty-two year affair, he finally married the woman who had first inspired his passion. The Magnificent Barbarian is Simon Winchester at his best - at once a magnificent portrait of one man's remarkable life and a riveting exploration of the country that so engaged him.

Author : Alan Axelrod
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781402763021
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Real History of the Cold War written by Alan Axelrod and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals the intriguing, suspenseful true story behind the globe-spanning battle of wills between the US and the Soviet Union after the fall of Nazi Germany.

Author : Richard Rhodes
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 143912647X
Total Pages : 770 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dark Sun written by Richard Rhodes and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, for the first time, in a brilliant, panoramic portrait by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, is the definitive, often shocking story of the politics and the science behind the development of the hydrogen bomb and the birth of the Cold War. Based on secret files in the United States and the former Soviet Union, this monumental work of history discloses how and why the United States decided to create the bomb that would dominate world politics for more than forty years.

Author : Rodric Braithwaite
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019087029X
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Armageddon and Paranoia written by Rodric Braithwaite and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a speech to the United Nations General Assembly in September 1961, President John F. Kennedy told his audience that "every man, woman, and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of threads." In this sweeping, immersive, and now chillingly relevant history of nuclear confrontation, eminent historian and diplomat Rodric Braithwaite offers the tale of that slender thread, a tale that spans from the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 into the present. Here is an account of treaties and summits, of life-and-death strategy among nations, featuring a vast and varied cast of individuals--scientists, spies, diplomats, generals, politicians, shamans, writers, geniuses, the hight-minded and the crackpot--all ow whom played their part in shaping the Nuclear Age. As [this book] shows, containing atomic weapons has been a central preoccupation of global politics and policy for the last seven decades. In the years after World War II, atomic weapons were initially controlled only by the superpowers, first the United States, followed shortly by the former Soviet Union (mainly by having infiltrated the Manhattan Project), then developed in succession by England, France, China, India, and Pakistan. In recent years, North Korea has developed a nuclear weapons program and is now developing the means of delivering them. Nuclear proliferation has long dominated and even obsessed international diplomacy and policy, particularly as the capacity to unleash catastrophic destruction became widespread. Braithwaite offers an overview of policy from the Cold war reliance on what was termed "Deterrence," a policy of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD), to the "Armageddon theology" of Ronald Reagan, to the de-alerting of nuclear weapons promised by both George W. Bush and Barack Obama, to the fire and fury driving the current war of tweeted insults. For nearly three-quarters of a century, nuclear weapons have shadowed human existence, moving from crisis to quiescence and back to crisis. Armageddon and Paranoia comes at a time when tensions are mounting once more. Though we cannot un-invent the atomic bomb, Braithwaite's clear-sighted and illuminating history provides a deeper understanding of how it has shaped the world in which we live. -- Dust jacket.

Author : Sharon Weinberger
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0804169721
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Imagineers of War written by Sharon Weinberger and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive history of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Pentagon agency that has quietly shaped war and technology for nearly sixty years. Founded in 1958 in response to the launch of Sputnik, the agency’s original mission was to create “the unimagined weapons of the future.” Over the decades, DARPA has been responsible for countless inventions and technologies that extend well beyond military technology. Sharon Weinberger gives us a riveting account of DARPA’s successes and failures, its remarkable innovations, and its wild-eyed schemes. We see how the threat of nuclear Armageddon sparked investment in computer networking, leading to the Internet, as well as to a proposal to power a missile-destroying particle beam by draining the Great Lakes. We learn how DARPA was responsible during the Vietnam War for both Agent Orange and the development of the world’s first armed drones, and how after 9/11 the agency sparked a national controversy over surveillance with its data-mining research. And we see how DARPA’s success with self-driving cars was followed by disappointing contributions to the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. Weinberger has interviewed more than one hundred former Pentagon officials and scientists involved in DARPA’s projects—many of whom have never spoken publicly about their work with the agency—and pored over countless declassified records from archives around the country, documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, and exclusive materials provided by sources. The Imagineers of War is a compelling and groundbreaking history in which science, technology, and politics collide.

Author : Steven Brooks
Publisher : Destiny Image Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0768488168
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fasting and Prayer written by Steven Brooks and published by Destiny Image Publishers. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get ready for a spiritual explosion! Experience the release of spiritual power through the age-old wonders of fasting and prayer! When it comes to Fasting and Prayer, author Steven Brooks has lived his message. In this book, he shares the ups and downs of his experiences with fasting—and the explosive power the Holy Spirit has released in his ministry as a result. Visions, healings, and miracles have been released to Steven Brooks through the simple commitment to fast and pray, and these supernatural manifestations are for you, as well! Tremendous power is released to the believer who is hungry to go deeper with God. Even if you have not experienced success with fasting before, this book will inspire faith in your spirit to believe for God’s extra measure of grace to fast. Join Steven Brooks, along with many biblical and modern-day saints, in experiencing for yourself the infusion of power that Fasting and Prayer will bring to your Christian walk! In Steven’s own words: “Embrace what the Word of God teaches concerning fasting combined with fervent prayer, be a hearer and a doer of the Word of God, and the power of God will flow through you to see even the most impossible prayers answered and countless other needs and desires met!” Open this book to let the change begin!