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    • A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II
    • By: Jennet Conant
    • Narrated by: John Kroft
    • Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 09-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 105 ratings
    • This is the untold story of an eccentric Wall Street tycoon and the circle of scientific geniuses he assembled before World War II to develop the science for radar and the atomic bomb. Together they changed the course of history....

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    • A Complete History
    • By: Martin Gilbert
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 33 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 439 ratings
    • It was to be the war to end all wars, and it began at 11:15 on the morning of June 28, 1914, in an outpost of the Austro-Hungarian Empire called Sarajevo. It would officially end nearly five years later. Unofficially, however, it has never ended...

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    • An Autobiography
    • By: Bob Lazar, George Knapp - foreword
    • Narrated by: Barry Abrams
    • Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,721 ratings
    • Bob Lazar was a brilliant young physicist that found himself employed at a top-secret facility in the middle of the desert outside Las Vegas. Under the watchful eye of the government elite, he is tasked with understanding an exotic propulsion system he is told came from outer space....

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    • Defending America in the Future of High-Tech Warfare
    • By: Christian Brose
    • Narrated by: Christian Brose
    • Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,614 ratings
    • From a former senior advisor to Senator John McCain, an urgent wake-up call about how new technologies are threatening America's military might....

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    • Wizard at War: The Genius, the Particle Beam Weapon, and the Pursuit of Power
    • By: Marc J. Seifer
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 06-29-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • Drawing on 40 years of research and a treasure trove of new information, Tesla: Wizard at War provides a comprehensive view of Tesla's discoveries, which continue to influence today's military technology and diplomatic strategies....

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    • Lessons from a Life in the CIA's Clandestine Service
    • By: Henry A. Crumpton
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 05-16-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,227 ratings
    • A legendary CIA spy and counterterrorism expert tells the spellbinding story of his high-risk, action-packed career....

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    • An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants
    • By: John Drury Clark, Isaac Asimov - foreward
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 667 ratings
    • Ignition! is the story of the Cold War era search for a rocket propellant that could be trusted to take man into space. A favorite of Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk, listeners will want to tune into this "really good book on rocket[s]," available for the first time in audio....

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    • Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters
    • By: Kate Brown
    • Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
    • Length: 18 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 12-19-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 108 ratings
    • Kate Brown draws on official records and dozens of interviews to tell the extraordinary stories of Richland, Washington, and Ozersk, Russia - the first two cities in the world to produce plutonium....

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    • The Secret History of the CIA's Spytechs from Communism to Al-Qaeda
    • By: Robert Wallace, Henry Robert Schelsinger
    • Narrated by: David Drummond
    • Length: 19 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,067 ratings
    • The former director of OTS gives listeners an unprecedented look at the devices and operations deemed "inappropriate for public disclosure" by the CIA just two years ago....

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    • The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military
    • By: Avis Lang, Neil deGrasse Tyson
    • Narrated by: Courtney B. Vance, Neil deGrasse Tyson - introduction
    • Length: 18 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,967 ratings
    • In this fascinating foray into the centuries-old relationship between science and military power, acclaimed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and writer-researcher Avis Lang examine how the methods and tools of astrophysics have been enlisted in the service of war....

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    • The Secret Contest to Invent Invisible Aircraft
    • By: Peter Westwick
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 115 ratings
    • On a moonless night in 1991, a dozen US aircraft appeared in the skies over Baghdad. To the Iraqi air defenses, the planes seemed to come from nowhere. Each aircraft was more than 60 feet in length and with a wingspan of 40 feet, yet its radar footprint was the size of a ball bearing....

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    • America's Greatest Naval Architect and His Quest to Build the S.S. United States
    • By: Steven Ujifusa
    • Narrated by: Pete Larkin
    • Length: 13 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • At the peak of his power, in the 1940s and 1950s, William Francis Gibbs was considered America's best naval architect....

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    • A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed
    • By: Ben R. Rich, Leo Janos
    • Narrated by: Pete Larkin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 07-14-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10,135 ratings
    • From the development of the U-2 to the Stealth fighter, the never-before-told story behind America's high-stakes quest to dominate the skies....

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    • Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War
    • By: Paul Scharre
    • Narrated by: Roger Wayne
    • Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 05-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 533 ratings
    • Paul Scharre, a Pentagon defense expert and former U.S. Army Ranger, explores what it would mean to give machines authority over the ultimate decision of life or death....

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    • The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut
    • By: Mike Mullane
    • Narrated by: Joel Richards
    • Length: 18 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 12-26-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 216 ratings
    • In 1978, the first group of space shuttle astronauts was introduced to the world - 29 men and six women who would carry NASA through the most tumultuous years of the program....

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    • The Fate of Human Societies
    • By: Jared Diamond
    • Narrated by: Doug Ordunio
    • Length: 16 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 01-18-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12,325 ratings
    • Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs and Steel examines the rise of civilization and the issues its development has raised throughout history....

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    • The Untold Story of DARPA, the Pentagon Agency That Changed the World
    • By: Sharon Weinberger
    • Narrated by: Hillary Huber
    • Length: 16 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 03-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 121 ratings
    • The definitive history of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Pentagon agency that has quietly shaped war and technology for nearly 60 years....

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    • From Victory to Collapse
    • By: Joseph T. Glatthaar
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 25 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 03-18-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 76 ratings
    • This sweeping history of the Civil War and the Confederacy is told through the lens of its most crucial army, the Army of Northern Virginia commanded by Robert E. Lee....

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    • Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000
    • By: William H. McNeill
    • Narrated by: Chris Andrew Ciulla
    • Length: 15 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 01-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • In this magnificent synthesis of military, technological, and social history, William H. McNeill explores a whole millennium of human upheaval and traces the path....

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