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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 3,141 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 1,268 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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    • 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 79 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 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 3,147 ratings
    • Famed investigative journalist Eric Schlosser digs deep to uncover secrets about the management of America's nuclear arsenal....

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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 1,029 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 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 1,960 ratings
    • From a preeminent historian of Eastern Europe, the definitive history of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster....

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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 1,527 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 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: 04-25-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 366 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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    • 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 917 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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    • MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War
    • By: H. W. Brands
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Length: 15 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 728 ratings
    • The riveting story of how President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur squared off to decide America's future in the aftermath of World War II....

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    • A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis
    • By: Robert F. Kennedy
    • Narrated by: Kurt Elftmann
    • Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 281 ratings
    • In October 1962, when the United States confronted the Soviet Union over its installation of missiles in Cuba, few people shared the behind-the-scenes story as it is told here by the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy....

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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 122 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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    • By: William Craig
    • Narrated by: Mark Ashby
    • Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 11-13-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 291 ratings
    • Told from both Japanese and American perspectives, this thrilling account of the final weeks of World War II in the Pacific has been heralded as "virtually faultless"....

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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 989 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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    • The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
    • By: Richard Rhodes
    • Narrated by: Richard Rhodes
    • Length: 6 hrs
    • Release date: 03-01-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 466 ratings
    • The author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb lays bare the secret heart of the Cold War....

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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 99 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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    • 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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    • Ronald Reagan and the Fall of the Soviet Empire
    • By: Bret Baier, Catherine Whitney
    • Narrated by: Bret Baier
    • Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 846 ratings
    • In Three Days in Moscow, Baier explores the dramatic endgame of America’s long struggle with the Soviet Union and President Ronald Reagan’s central role in shaping the world we live in today....

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