Nuclear Weapon

From Neil Sheehan, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic A Bright Shining Lie, comes this long-awaited, magnificent epic. Here is the never-before-told story of the nuclear arms race that changed history - and of the visionary American Air Force officer Bernard Schriever....

This landmark history of nuclear power is perfectly timed for today, when Americans are gravely concerned with nuclear terrorism....

The U.S. agents must outwit not only enemy brokers but also American manufacturers and global bankers who are too willing to put profit over national security....

Ruled by a maniacal dictator and cut off from the outside world, the citizens of North Korea are living in a darkness that has nearly destroyed ...

In 1991, the United States Army trounced the Iraqi army in battle only to stumble blindly into postwar turmoil....

Since the 1930s, the scale of scientific endeavors has grown exponentially. This is the story of how one invention changed the world and of the man most responsible for it all....

Gavin reassesses the strategy of flexible response, the influence of nuclear weapons during the Berlin Crisis....

A comprehensive study of the missile system that formed a critical component of the United States' nuclear arsenal....

During the 1950s, the big fear was nuclear war. From the Soviet Union's perspective, having a communist stronghold so close to the American border was a dream come true....

Crater Lake is the deepest lake in the United States and at the bottom rests a B-1B bomber and its cargo of 24 nuclear weapons. Scott Tanner, a ...

Many myths have grown up around President Truman's decision to use nuclear weapons against Japan. In destroying these myths, Truman and the Bomb will discomfort both Truman's critics and his supporters, and force historians to reexamine what they think they know about the end of the Pacific War....

Today the news is filled with accounts of the rising tide of Islamic governments across the Middle East based on Sharia law leading into an Islamic caliphate....

My Journey at the Nuclear Brink is a continuation of William J. Perry's efforts to keep the world safe from a nuclear catastrophe....

Blackout Wars is about the historically unprecedented threat to our electronic civilization from its dependence on the electric power grid. In a nationwide blackout lasting months or years, the entire population of the US could be at risk....

US and Israeli intelligence detect a nuclear weapons shipment set to depart Pakistan for Saudi Arabia in several days. The nations of Iran and Iraq...

Americans constantly make moral judgments about presidents and foreign policy. Unfortunately, many of these assessments are poorly thought through. A president is either praised for the moral clarity of his statements or judged solely on the results of their actions....

Nuclear Bomb Survival Cheats, Hacks, Hints, Tips, and Tricks is a comprehensive guide to preparing for and surviving a nuclear explosion. In this comprehensive and easy-to-listen guide, you will learn the latest cheats, hacks, hints, tips, and tricks for preparing for a nuclear explosion....

No single invention of the last half century has changed the way we live now as much as the Internet....

When Reagan and Gorbachev sat down in Reykjavik in 1986, George Shultz said that it was “the poker game with the highest stakes ever played”. It was the last time the world had a chance to do away entirely with nuclear weapons....

Are nuclear arsenals safe from cyberattack? Could terrorists launch a nuclear weapon through hacking? These are among the many pressing security questions addressed in Andrew Futter's groundbreaking study of the cyber threat to nuclear weapons....