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    • A Scenario
    • By: Annie Jacobsen
    • Narrated by: Annie Jacobsen
    • Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,514 ratings
    • There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in a matter of hours: nuclear war. And one of the triggers for that war would be a nuclear missile inbound toward the United States.

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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: 05-02-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,275 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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    • Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
    • By: Eric Schlosser
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Length: 20 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,152 ratings
    • Famed investigative journalist Eric Schlosser digs deep to uncover secrets about the management of America's nuclear arsenal....

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    • The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
    • By: Serhii Plokhy
    • Narrated by: Ralph Lister
    • Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,965 ratings
    • From a preeminent historian of Eastern Europe, the definitive history of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster....

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    • The True Story of the Renegade Scientists and Spies Who Sabotaged the Nazi Atomic Bomb
    • By: Sam Kean
    • Narrated by: Ben Sullivan
    • Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 921 ratings
    • From New York Times best-selling author Sam Kean comes the gripping, untold story of a renegade group of scientists and spies determined to keep Adolf Hitler from obtaining the ultimate prize: a nuclear bomb....

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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: 10-13-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,530 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 Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days That Changed the World
    • By: Chris Wallace, Mitch Weiss
    • Narrated by: Chris Wallace
    • Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,208 ratings
    • From Chris Wallace, the veteran journalist and anchor of Fox News Sunday comes a behind-the-scenes account of the 116 days leading up to the American attack on Hiroshima....

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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: 01-10-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 929 ratings
    • 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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    • By: Daniel Ellsberg
    • Narrated by: Steven Cooper
    • Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,032 ratings
    • The Doomsday Machine is Ellsberg's hair-raising insider's account of the most dangerous arms buildup in the history of civilization....

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    • The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa
    • By: Susan Williams
    • Narrated by: Chanté McCormick
    • Length: 21 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 08-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 66 ratings
    • A revelatory history of how postcolonial African Independence movements were systematically undermined by one nation above all: the US....

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    • Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II
    • By: Evan Thomas
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 05-16-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 128 ratings
    • So begins this suspenseful, impeccably researched history that draws on new access to diaries to tell the story of three men who were intimately involved with America’s decision to drop the atomic bomb—and Japan’s decision to surrender....

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    • The Last Train from Hiroshima
    • By: Charles Pellegrino
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 18 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 07-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 94 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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    • Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962
    • By: Max Hastings
    • Narrated by: Max Hastings, John Hopkins
    • Length: 19 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 10-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 183 ratings
    • Bestselling author Max Hastings offers a welcome re-evaluation of one of the most gripping and tense international events in modern history—the Cuban Missile Crisis—providing a people-focused narrative that explores the attitudes and conduct....

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    • Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age
    • By: Steve Olson
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 100 ratings
    • It began with plutonium, the first element ever manufactured in quantity by humans. In a matter of months, the Hanford nuclear facility was built to produce and weaponize the enigmatic and deadly new material that would fuel atomic bombs....

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    • A Global History of Nuclear Disasters
    • By: Serhii Plokhy
    • Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
    • Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 104 ratings
    • Atoms and Ashes recounts the dramatic history of nuclear accidents that have dogged the industry in its military and civil incarnations since the 1950s. Through the stories of six terrifying major incidents, Cold War expert Serhii Plokhy explores the risks of nuclear power....

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    • A Life Inside the Center
    • By: Ray Monk
    • Narrated by: Michael Goldstrom
    • Length: 35 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 359 ratings
    • Robert Oppenheimer was among the most brilliant and divisive of men....

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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: 08-24-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 169 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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    • How the CIA Used Howard Hughes to Steal a Russian Sub in the Most Daring Covert Operation in History
    • By: Josh Dean
    • Narrated by: Neil Hellegers
    • Length: 15 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 990 ratings
    • In the early hours of February 25, 1968, a Russian submarine armed with three nuclear ballistic missiles set sail from its base in Siberia on a routine combat patrol to Hawaii. Then it vanished....

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