Nuclear America

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    • The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy
    • By: David E. Hoffman
    • Narrated by: Bob Walter
    • Length: 20 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 13-10-2009
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • The Dead Hand is the suspense-filled story of the people who sought to brake the speeding locomotive of the arms race, then rushed to secure the nuclear and biological weapons left behind by the collapse of the Soviet Union—a dangerous legacy that haunts us even today....

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    • The Story of the U.S. Government's Secret Plan to Save Itself - While the Rest of Us Die
    • By: Garrett M. Graff
    • Narrated by: Jacques Roy
    • Length: 18 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 02-05-2017
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • A fresh window on American history: the eye-opening truth about the government's secret plans to survive a catastrophic attack on US soil, even if the rest of us die....

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    • Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
    • By: Michael Dobbs
    • Narrated by: Bob Walter
    • Length: 16 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 29-08-2008
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • In October 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union appeared to be sliding inexorably toward a nuclear conflict....

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    • Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis
    • By: Martin J. Sherwin
    • Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
    • Length: 18 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 13-10-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • In this groundbreaking look at the Cuban Missile Crisis, Martin Sherwin not only gives us a riveting sometimes hour-by-hour explanation of the crisis itself, but also explores the origins, scope, and consequences of the evolving place of nuclear weapons in the post-World War II world....

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    • America's Quest for Global Dominance
    • By: Noam Chomsky
    • Narrated by: Brian Jones, Noam Chomsky
    • Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 21-11-2003
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • For more than half a century, the United States has been pursuing a grand imperial strategy with the aim of staking out the globe...

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    • By: Hourly History
    • Narrated by: Stephen Paul Aulridge Jr.
    • Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The Cold War between the US and the Soviet Union lasted for more than 40 years. In general, this was a war of spies and subterfuge, of covert action and espionage. There was always a danger, however, that an error of judgment could suddenly cause the Cold War to turn red-hot....

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    • The Untold Story of America's First Nuclear Accident
    • By: William McKeown
    • Narrated by: Bob Dunsworth
    • Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 11-12-2012
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Chronicled here for the first time is the strange tale of SL-1, a military test reactor located in Idaho’s Lost River Desert that exploded on the night of January 3, 1961....

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    • MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War
    • By: H. W. Brands
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Length: 15 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-2016
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • The riveting story of how President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur squared off to decide America's future in the aftermath of World War II....

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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: 01-09-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 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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    • Politics, Accountability, and Cleanup
    • By: Max Singleton Power
    • Narrated by: Todd Belcher
    • Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 04-08-2014
    • Language: English
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    • America's Nuclear Wastelands presents an expert, yet straightforward overview of this complex topic, including nuclear weapons history and contamination issues....

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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: 11-12-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 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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    • Defending America with Grit and Grace
    • By: Nikki R. Haley
    • Narrated by: Nikki R. Haley
    • Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 12-11-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • Nikki Haley is widely admired for her forthright manner (“with all due respect, I don’t get confused”), her sensitive approach to tragic events, and her confident representation of America’s interests as our ambassador to the United Nations during times of crisis and consequence....

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    • America's Deadly Betrayal of the Marshall Islanders
    • By: Walter Pincus
    • Narrated by: Chris Abernathy
    • Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 16-11-2021
    • Language: English
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    • The most important place in American nuclear history are the Marshall Islands - an idyllic Pacific paradise that served as the staging ground for more than 60 US nuclear tests....

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    • The Modern Presidency and the National Security State
    • By: Garry Wills
    • Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
    • Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 22-01-2010
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In Bomb Power, Garry Wills reveals how the atomic bomb transformed our nation down to its deepest constitutional roots....

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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: 14-05-2019
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • Dwight Eisenhower's Final Mission
    • By: Bret Baier, Catherine Whitney
    • Narrated by: Bret Baier, Danny Campbell
    • Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-2017
    • Language: English
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    • Brett Baier's Three Days in January illuminates how Eisenhower, an underappreciated giant of US history, still offers vital lessons for our own time....

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