Nuclear Weapon

The moon contains a wealth of natural resources. So, as the Earth's supplies have begun to dwindle, it is no surprise that the world's superpowers and wealthiest corporations have turned their eyes to the stars.

Police officer Peter Westmore is helping with the evacuation of Seattle when terrorists explode a nuclear bomb....

Jimmy Carter has been given a free ride from the liberal media, liberal historians, and even the American people, who excuse his political delinquencies and disasters on the grounds that he is a "good" man....

For the first time, former Vice President Dick Cheney opens up about a life and career in politics that has spanned more than four decades....

Once home to the United States's largest plutonium production site, the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington State is laced with 56 million gallons of radioactive waste. The threat of an explosive accident at Hanford is all too real—an event that could be more catastrophic than Chernobyl....

The intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM was the central weapons system of the Cold War. ICBMs also carried the first astronauts and cosmonauts into orbit. Christopher Gainor explores the US Air Force's decision to build the Atlas, America's first ICBM....

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

In a horrific global attack, terrorists brutally assassinate the US president on live television...leaving Chris Thomas the only one capable of stopping the Order’s reign of terror. Labeled an enemy of the state, he must go rogue to stop Master Mahan’s rise to power....

In The Rise of Nuclear Iran, Gold traces past failures and explains why diplomacy will continue to backfire, no matter who is president or which party is in power....

Six American men live behind a protective façade, their real work hidden from neighbors and friends. Different in countless ways, they are intimately the same in one: at any moment their lives can be altered with a phone call, and their actions may change the world....

In his shocking and revelatory new work, celebrated journalist William Langewiesche investigates the burgeoning threat of nuclear-weapons production....

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....

In Mission Failure, Michael Mandelbaum provides an original, provocative, and definitive account of the ambitious but deeply flawed post-Cold War efforts to promote American values....

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

The Cold War between the US and the Soviet Union lasted for more than 40 years. In general, this was a war of spies and subterfuge, of covert action and espionage. There was always a danger, however, that an error of judgment could suddenly cause the Cold War to turn red-hot....

On July 16, 1945, just weeks before the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that brought about the surrender of Japan and the end of WWII, the US unleashed the world's first atomic bomb at the Trinity testing site located in the remote Tularosa Valley in New Mexico....

April 9, 1940.The invasion begins at night, with German cruisers slipping up a silent fjord. Soon planes full of paratroopers roar over the mountains and in two months the Nazis occupy Norway....

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

Non-proliferation is the attempt to prevent the spread of nuclear, biological, and chemical (NBC) weapons through international treaties and ...

Bradford Lehman is only 18 when he is handpicked by US government intelligence to spearhead an incredibly dangerous mission on the unforgiving terrain of Washington's Mt. Rainier....