Nuclear History

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    • How Britain Prepared for Nuclear War
    • By: Julie McDowall
    • Narrated by: Julie McDowall
    • Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 81 ratings
    • There have been many histories of the Cold War but Attack Warning Red! is the first book to tell the domestic story of day-to-day life on the nuclear home front....

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    • The Last Train from Hiroshima
    • By: Charles Pellegrino
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 18 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 21-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • 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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    • 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: 24-09-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 227 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 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: 25-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 17 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 History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States
    • By: Alex Wellerstein
    • Narrated by: John McLain
    • Length: 17 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 26-10-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • 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 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: 15-11-11
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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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    • 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: 04-11-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 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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    • Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War
    • By: Fred Kaplan
    • Narrated by: Edward Bauer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 28-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 50 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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    • A New History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
    • By: Serhii Plokhy
    • Narrated by: Roger Davis
    • Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 13-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 59 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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    • 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: 25-04-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 87 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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    • 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: 15-02-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 273 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 Inside Story of Our Dangerous Nuclear World
    • By: John Hughes-Wilson
    • Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
    • Length: 13 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Eve of Destruction is a warning from history - recent history. It is a call to sit up and listen and to take note of the very real danger of nuclear catastrophe. It is a timely and important audiobook because, after all, the future of our planet has to concern us all....

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    • The History of Nuclear Power in Japan and the Disaster at Fukushima Daiichi
    • By: Andrew Leatherbarrow
    • Narrated by: Nick Gallagher
    • Length: 16 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 14-02-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Almost 24 hours to the minute since the tsunami hit Fukushima Daiichi, Unit 1 exploded. The building wrenched apart, sending shards of irradiated concrete and metal knifing through the air in all directions....

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    • True Submarine Stories of the Twentieth Century
    • By: Mary Nida Smith
    • Narrated by: Paul Christy
    • Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 20-01-16
    • Language: English
    • 1 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The unbelievable stories of the heroic men who sailed under the sea....

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    • By: Eric Schlosser
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Length: 20 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 17-09-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 801 ratings
    • Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Command and Control, a ground-breaking account of the management of nuclear weapons from Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation....

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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: 25-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • 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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    • By: Kevin Ruane
    • Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
    • Length: 21 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Churchill and the Bomb in War and Cold War explores a still neglected aspect of Winston Churchill's career: his relationship with and thinking on nuclear weapons....

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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: 14-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 786 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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    • The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962
    • By: Max Hastings
    • Narrated by: John Hopkins
    • Length: 19 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 29-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 296 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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    • 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: 13-10-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 198 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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