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  • The Last Missile Site: An Operational and Physical History of Nike Site SF-88 Fort Barry, California

    by Stephen Haller, John Martini ...
    Go inside a Nike missile site!  The Nike missile launch site located in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area’s Marin Headlands is the only mechanically operational Nike launch site in the United States.  It was left in operational condition by the Army when turned over to the National Park Service in the early 1970’s. View the inner working and relive the day-today operations. Told through ... Read more

    $9.94 CAD

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  • Three Days in January

    Dwight Eisenhower's Final Mission

    by Bret Baier, Catherine Whitney ...
    Series Book 3 - Three Days Series
    The blockbuster #1 national bestsellerBret Baier, the Chief Political Anchor for Fox News Channel and the Anchor and Executive Editor of Special Report with Bret Baier, illuminates the extraordinary yet underappreciated presidency of Dwight Eisenhower by taking readers into Ike’s last days in power.“Magnificently rendered. … Destined to take its place as not only one of the masterworks on ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • Now It Can Be Told

    The Story of the Manhattan Project

    by Leslie M. Groves ...
    A first-person account of the Manhattan Project by the general who hired, and worked alongside, Robert Oppenheimer.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 marshaling men and material for what was to be the most ambitious ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Arsenals of Folly

    by Richard Rhodes ...
    Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes delivers a riveting account of the nuclear arms race and the Cold War.In the Reagan-Gorbachev era, the United States and the Soviet Union came within minutes of nuclear war, until Gorbachev boldly launched a campaign to eliminate nuclear weapons, setting the stage for the 1986 Reykjavik summit and the incredible events that followed. In this thrilling, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • When Angels Wept: A What-If History of the Cuban Missile Crisis

    by Eric G. Swedin ...
    In 1961 at the Bay of Pigs, CIA-trained and -organized Cuban exiles aiming to overthrow Fidel Castro were soundly defeated. Most were taken prisoner by Cuban armed forces. Fearing another U.S. invasion of its new ally, the Soviet Union sneaked into Cuba strategic missiles tipped with nuclear warheads and Soviet troops armed with tactical nuclear weapons. However, a U-2 spy plane flight would soon ... Read more

    $23.29 CAD

  • Nuclear Weapons: A Very Short Introduction

    by Joseph M. Siracusa ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Despite not having been used in anger since Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Bomb is still the biggest threat that faces us in the 21st century. As Bill Clinton's first secretary of defence, Les Aspin, aptly put it: 'The Cold War is over, the Soviet Union is no more. But the post-Cold War world is decidedly not post-nuclear'. For all the effort to reduce nuclear stockpiles to zero, it seems that the ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Prompt and Utter Destruction, Third Edition

    Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs against Japan

    by J. Samuel Walker ...
    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 war with Japan. In this new edition, Walker incorporates a decade of new research — mostly from ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • The Atomic Bomb and the Origins of the Cold War

    by Campbell Craig, Sergey Radchenko ...
    A study of nuclear warfare's key role in triggering the post-World War II confrontation between the US and the USSRAfter 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 ... Read more

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  • Communist China VS Communist Russia!! Secrets You Never Knew

    by Capitalism one0one ...
    The China-Soviet split (1960–1989) was the worsening of political and ideological relations between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) during the Cold War. In the 1960s, China and the Soviet Union were the two largest Communist states in the world. The doctrinal divergence derived from Chinese and Russiannational interests, and from the régimes' ... Read more

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  • Death in Life

    Survivors of Hiroshima

    by Robert Jay Lifton ...
    In Japan, “hibakusha” means “the people affected by the explosion” — specifically, the explosion of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima in 1945. In this classic study, winner of the 1969 National Book Award in Science, Lifton studies the psychological effects of the bomb on 90,000 survivors. He sees this analysis as providing a last chance to understand — and be motivated to avoid — nuclear war. This ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Peace Quest: The Survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    by Joe Copeland ...
    Hiroshima and Nagasaki's survivors of atomic bombings have made it their mission to work for peace and nuclear disarmament, a quest they have pursued for 70 years even as they coped with health effects, grief and the rebuilding of their cities. Prize-winning Seattle journalist and Fulbright scholar Joe Copeland, who has interviewed survivors over nearly three decades, provides a compelling look at ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Counsels of War

    by Gregg Herken ...
    Since the first atomic bomb was exploded in 1945, a close community of civilian experts, including scientists, academics, and think-tank intellectuals, has advised the American government on the prospects of nuclear war. Based on interviews with these experts, as well as hundreds of pages of recently declassified documents, Counsels of War is the first book to trace in detail the deliberations and ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD