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  • The Nuclear Crisis

    The Arms Race, Cold War Anxiety, and the German Peace Movement of the 1980s

    Edited by Christoph Becker-Schaum, Philipp Gassert, Martin Klimke, Wilfried Mausbach ...
    Series Book 19 - Protest, Culture & Society
    In 1983, more than one million Germans joined together to protest NATO’s deployment of nuclear missiles in Europe. International media overflowed with images of marches, rallies, and human chains as protesters blockaded depots and agitated for disarmament. Though they failed to halt the deployment, the episode was a decisive one for German society, revealing deep divisions in the nation’s ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

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  • Bridge of Spies

    A True Story of the Cold War

    by Giles Whittell ...
    The “riveting, meticulously researched, and beautifully written” (Ben Macintyre, author of The Spy and the Traitor) true story chronicles the first and most legendary prisoner exchange of the Cold War, between East and West at Berlin’s Glienicke Bridge and Checkpoint Charlie“A marvelous saga of dangerous missions, helter-skelter innovation, and clandestine activity.”—The Wall Street JournalWho ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • High Noon in the Cold War

    Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Cuban Missile Crisis

    by Max Frankel ...
    A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • “[A] riveting retrospective examination of the Cuban Missile Crisis” (The Washington Times), from one of the giants of American journalism, Pulitzer Prize winner Max FrankelFinalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in HistoryIn High Noon in the Cold War, Max Frankel captures the Cuban Missile Crisis in a new light, from inside the hearts and minds of the famous ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Manhattan Project

    The Making of the Atomic Bomb

    by Al Cimino ...
    The ramifications of the Manhattan Project are with us to this day. The atomic bombs that came out of it brought an end to the war in the Pacific, but at a heavy loss of life in Japan and the opening of a Pandora's box that has tested international relations.This book traces the history of the Manhattan Project, from the first glimmerings of the possibility of such a catastrophic weapon to the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nuclear Dawn

    The Atomic Bomb, from the Manhattan Project to the Cold War

    by James P. Delgado ...
    At once fascinating and horrific, this book details the conception, development and impact of the atomic bombs infamously dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945.The obliteration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 brought the world to a stand still. This unimaginable shock confirmed to the world that the race to develop a working atomic weapon during World War II had been won by ... Read more

    $16.49 USD

  • The Wizards of Armageddon

    by Fred Kaplan ...
    Series series Stanford Nuclear Age Series
    This is the untold story of the small group of men who have devised the plans and shaped the policies on how to use the Bomb. The book (first published in 1983) explores the secret world of these strategists of the nuclear age and brings to light a chapter in American political and military history never before revealed. ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Remote Viewing the ISIS Apocalypse and other 21st Century Events

    by Washington Remote Viewing Group ...
    In the 21st century, ISIS will unleash several apocalyptic atrocities that will make 9/11 look like a Sunday picnic. These events will apparently happen despite the efforts of agencies such as the CIA, NSA, FBI, MI-5, MI-6 and the Department of Homeland Security.Remote viewing is the telepathic psychic ability to see future, past and present events, objects, people and situations. All Remote ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Nuclear Weapons: A Very Short Introduction

    by Joseph M. Siracusa ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Despite not having been used in anger since Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Bomb is still the biggest threat that faces us in the 21st century. As Bill Clinton's first secretary of defence, Les Aspin, aptly put it: 'The Cold War is over, the Soviet Union is no more. But the post-Cold War world is decidedly not post-nuclear'. For all the effort to reduce nuclear stockpiles to zero, it seems that the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Below Test Depth

    by Moses F. Pollard ...

    $2.99 USD

  • Norad and the Soviet Nuclear Threat

    Canada's Secret Electronic Air War

    by Gordon A. A. Wilson ...
    NORAD and the Soviet Nuclear Threat is the history of the air defence of Canada during the Cold War era. The reader is taken into the Top Secret world of NORAD, the joint Canadian-American North American Air Defence network. Ride along with the aircrew in their cockpit as they fight an electronic joust in the skies. Go deep underground to the Command Centre as the Air Weapons controllers plot the ... Read more

    $14.19 USD

  • Communist China VS Communist Russia!! Secrets You Never Knew

    by Capitalism one0one ...
    The China-Soviet split (1960–1989) was the worsening of political and ideological relations between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) during the Cold War. In the 1960s, China and the Soviet Union were the two largest Communist states in the world. The doctrinal divergence derived from Chinese and Russiannational interests, and from the régimes' ... Read more

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  • he Fires of October

    The Planned US Invasion of Cuba During the Missile Crisis of 1962

    by Blaine Pardoe ...
    It was the closest we ever came to unleashing the Third World War.... The image of that world was so horrible to contemplate that both sides stepped away from that precipice and opted for peace. Fires of October is the exhilarating military history of the Cuban Missile Crisis exploring in detail the strategic plans implemented by American Armed Forces as they headed towards a catastrophic nuclear ... Read more

    $6.81 USD