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Author
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Atomic Steppe tells the untold true story of how the obscure country of Kazakhstan said no to the most powerful weapons in human history. With the fall of the Soviet Union, the marginalized Central Asian republic suddenly found itself with the world's fourth largest nuclear arsenal on its territory. Would it give up these fire-ready weapons--or try to become a Central Asian North Korea? This book takes us inside Kazakhstan's extraordinary and little-known...
Author
Publisher
Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
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...
6) Downwind
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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.
7) Wolf hunt
Author
Series
SWAT Special Wolf Alpha Team volume 6
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca, an imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Remy Boudreaux is back in his hometown, New Orleans. He's there with three of his fellow Dallas SWAT officers for a week of training with the NOLA PD. On the eve of a tropical storm, Remy and his buddies prowl the French Quarter. One tantalizing scent captures Remy's senses, forcing him to follow until he is face to face with Triana Bellamy his beautiful high school crush. After reconnecting, Remy and Triana are very close. Remy struggles to keep...