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Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Examines the spread of nuclear technology into unstable, undeveloped, and hostile nations, as well as the potential for such weapons to fall into the hands of terrorists, looking specifically at the role of renegade scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan.
Author
Series
Jerry Mitchell novels volume 6
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Jerry Mitchell, now the commodore of submarine Development Squadron Five, is dismayed when USS Toledo is reported missing in Arctic waters, close to Russian territory. The vessel is captained by his former shipmate and close friend, Lenny Berg. Eager to investigate, Jerry convinces the Navy to redirect one of his squadron's boats to find out what happened."--Amazon
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"A riveting narrative of the Atomic Age--from x-rays and Marie Curie to the Nevada Test Site and the 2011 meltdown in Japan--written by the prizewinning and bestselling author of Rocket Men. Radiation is a complex and paradoxical concept: staggering amounts of energy flow from seemingly inert rock and that energy is both useful and dangerous. While nuclear energy affects our everyday lives--from nuclear medicine and food irradiation to microwave technology--its...
Author
Publisher
Ecco Press
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"In a tiny shack in the largest township in South Africa, Nombeko Mayeki is born. Put to work at five years old and orphaned at ten, she quickly learns that the world expects nothing more from her than to die young, be it from drugs, alcohol, or just plain despair. But Nombeko has grander plans. She learns to read and write, and at just fifteen, using her cunning and fearlessness, she makes it out of Soweto with millions of smuggled diamonds in her...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A chilling account of seventy years of nuclear catastrophes, by the author of the "definitive" (Economist) Cold War history, Nuclear Folly. Nuclear energy was embraced across the globe at the height of the nuclear industry in the 1960s and 1970s; today, there are 440 nuclear reactors operating throughout the world, with nuclear power providing 10 percent of world electricity. Yet as the world seeks to reduce carbon emissions to combat climate change,...
11) Downwind
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hiroshima. Nagasaki. Mercury, Nevada? The latter was the site for the testing of 928 large-scale nuclear weapons from 1951 to 1992. Martin Sheen narrates this harrowing exposé of the United States' disregard for everyone living… downwind.
Author
Series
Publisher
Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Near the end of World War II, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to try and bring and end to the war. This book looks at how the development of nuclear weapons changed countries around the world since World War II, discussing the Cold War, nuclear development, the effects of radiation and more.
13) Detonator
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
It's explosive action when a renegade Russian general who can't let go of the cold war gets his hands on a nuclear bomb and sends it hurling toward Iraq on a hijacked train. Special United Nations anti-crime agents are called in to stop the train and disarm the bomb. And nobody cares how.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Sidelined after a colleague's blunder, CIA agent Brooke Chandler envisions a way to halt an Al Qaeda plot to set off a massive nuclear explosion and begins a race against time that returns him to Lebanon, where nothing is quite as it seems.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Driven by intensely personal testimony and painstaking research, Deadly Deception exposes what GE never wanted its customers to know: a shocking pattern of negligence and misinformation spanning several decades. These tragic stories are answered by the inspiring activism of the GE Boycott, a grassroots campaign run by corporate accountability organization, Corporate Accountability International, to pressure GE out of the nuclear weapons industr. Nine...
16) Thunderball
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
The thrills never let up as James Bond dives into this riveting adventure filled with explosive confrontations and amazing underwater action. Sean Connery brings his characteristic style and magnetism to Agent 007 as he travels to Nassau to track down a villainous criminal who is threatening to plunge the world into a nuclear holocaust.
17) Sunshine
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
It is the year 2057, the sun is dying and mankind faces extinction. Earth's last hope rests with a courageous crew of eight men and women on a mission to ignite the fading star with a massive nuclear weapon. Deep into their voyage, out of radio contact with Earth, their mission begins to unravel and they find themselves fighting not only for their lives, but for the future of us all.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Description
"Every generation, a journalist has looked deep into the heart of the nuclear military establishment: the technologies, the safeguards, the plans, and the risks. These projects are vital to how we understand the world we really live in: where one nuclear missile begets one in return; where the choreography of the world's end requires massive decisions made on seconds-notice, with information that is only as good as the intelligence we have. Annie...
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