Nuclear History

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    • A New Look at the History and Future of Nuclear Power
    • By: James Mahaffey
    • Narrated by: John McLain
    • Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 24-09-2013
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 71 ratings
    • The American public's introduction to nuclear technology was manifested in destruction and death, with Hiroshima and the Cold War still ringing in our ears....

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    • The True Story of a U.S. Cold War Submarine's Covert Operations Against the Soviet Union
    • By: Peter Sasgen
    • Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
    • Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 25-04-2017
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • Stalking the Red Bear, for the first time ever, describes the action principally from the perspective of a commanding officer of a nuclear submarine during the Cold War....

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    • The Last Train from Hiroshima
    • By: Charles Pellegrino
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 18 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 21-07-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • To Hell and Back offers listeners a stunning "you are there" time capsule, wrapped in elegant prose. Charles Pellegrino's scientific authority and close relationship with the A-bomb survivors make his account the most gripping and authoritative ever written....

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    • The Incredible True Story of the World's Worst Nuclear Disaster
    • By: Andrew Leatherbarrow
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-2016
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • At 01:23:40 on April 26th 1986, Alexander Akimov pressed the emergency shutdown button at Chernobyl's fourth nuclear reactor. It was an act that forced the permanent evacuation....

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    • A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters; From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima
    • By: James Mahaffey
    • Narrated by: Tom Weiner
    • Length: 15 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 15-02-2014
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 61 ratings
    • Nuclear science has had a rich history of innovative scientific exploration and discovery, coupled with mistakes, accidents, and downright disasters....

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    • The True Story of General Leslie R. Groves, the Man Behind the Birth of the Atomic Age
    • By: Robert S. Norris
    • Narrated by: Peter Johnson
    • Length: 23 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 04-11-2014
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Revealed for the first time in Racing for the Bomb, Groves played a crucial and decisive role in the planning, timing, and targeting of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki missions....

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    • The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States
    • By: Alex Wellerstein
    • Narrated by: John McLain
    • Length: 17 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 26-10-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Drawing on troves of declassified files, 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 21st century....

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    • The Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
    • By: Adam Higginbotham
    • Narrated by: Jacques Roy
    • Length: 13 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 14-02-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 218 ratings
    • Midnight In Chernobyl is an indelible portrait of one of the great disasters of the 20th century, of human resilience and ingenuity and the lessons learned when mankind seeks to bend the natural world to his will....

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    • Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War
    • By: Fred Kaplan
    • Narrated by: Edward Bauer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 28-01-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • From the author the classic The Wizards of Armageddon and Pulitzer Prize finalist comes the definitive history of American policy on nuclear war - and Presidents’ actions in nuclear crises - from Truman to Trump....

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    • The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962
    • By: Max Hastings
    • Narrated by: John Hopkins
    • Length: 19 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 29-09-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was the most perilous event in history, when mankind faced a looming nuclear collision between the United States and Soviet Union. During those weeks, the world gazed into the abyss of potential annihilation....

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    • A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II
    • By: Jennet Conant
    • Narrated by: John Kroft
    • Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 25-09-2018
    • Language: English
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    • This is the untold story of an eccentric Wall Street tycoon and the circle of scientific geniuses he assembled before World War II to develop the science for radar and the atomic bomb. Together they changed the course of history....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Joseph M. Siracusa
    • Narrated by: Shawn Compton
    • Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-2020
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • This Very Short Introduction looks at the science of nuclear weapons and how they differ from conventional weapons....

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    • The True Story of a Group of Scientists Who Changed the World
    • By: Burton Feldman, Katherine Williams
    • Narrated by: Victor Bevine
    • Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 15-11-2011
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • From the acclaimed author of The Nobel Prize comes this fascinating portrait of four of the greatest minds in the history of science and the impossible turning point they faced....

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    • Recent Challenges, New Dangers, and the Prospects for a World Without Nuclear Weapons
    • By: Richard Rhodes
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Series: Richard Rhodes' Nuclear Histories
    • Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 24-08-2010
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • The culminating volume in Richard Rhodes’s monumental and prizewinning history of nuclear weapons, offering the first comprehensive narrative of the challenges faced in a post-Cold War age. The past 20 years have transformed our relationship with nuclear weapons drastically....

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    • The New Nuclear Arms Race and Presidential Power from Truman to Trump
    • By: William J. Perry, Tom Z. Collina
    • Narrated by: John Pruden
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 25-08-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Written in an accessible and authoritative voice, The Button reveals the shocking tales and sobering facts of nuclear executive authority throughout the atomic age, delivering a powerful condemnation against ever leaving explosive power this devastating under one person's thumb....

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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 20 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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    • Apocalyptic Moments from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
    • By: Dan Carlin
    • Narrated by: Dan Carlin
    • Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 29-10-2019
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 895 ratings
    • In The End Is Always Near, Dan Carlin connects the past and future in fascinating and colourful ways, exploring a question that has hung over humanity like the sword of Damocles from the collapse of the Bronze Age to the nuclear era - that of human survival....

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    • Reframings
    • By: Noam Chomsky
    • Narrated by: Brian Jones
    • Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 26-05-2016
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 129 ratings
    • Internationally renowned political commentator Noam Chomsky examines America's pursuit and exercise of power in a post-9/11 world....

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    • A New History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
    • By: Serhii Plokhy
    • Narrated by: Roger Davis
    • Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 13-04-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • The definitive new history of the Cuban Missile Crisis from the author of Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy, winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize....

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