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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 470 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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    • The True Story of General Leslie R. Groves, the Man Behind the Birth of the Atomic Age
    • By: Robert S. Norris
    • Narrated by: Peter Johnson
    • Length: 23 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 11-04-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 95 ratings
    • Revealed for the first time in Racing for the Bomb, Groves played a crucial and decisive role in the planning, timing, and targeting of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki missions....

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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 111 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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    • 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 110 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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    • 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 1,071 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 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 122 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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    • 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 538 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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    • 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 46 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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    • 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 62 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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    • Cyber Attacks and the New Normal of Geopolitics
    • By: Ben Buchanan
    • Narrated by: Christopher Grove
    • Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 06-30-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 163 ratings
    • Packed with insider information based on interviews, declassified files, and forensic analysis of company reports, The Hacker and the State sets aside fantasies of cyber-annihilation to explore the real geopolitical competition of the digital age....

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    • A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers
    • By: Andy Greenberg
    • Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
    • Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,165 ratings
    • In 2014, the world witnessed the start of a mysterious series of cyberattacks. Targeting American utility companies, NATO, and electric grids in Eastern Europe, the strikes grew ever more brazen....

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    • The True Story of a Group of Scientists Who Changed the World
    • By: Burton Feldman, Katherine Williams
    • Narrated by: Victor Bevine
    • Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • From the acclaimed author of The Nobel Prize comes this fascinating portrait of four of the greatest minds in the history of science and the impossible turning point they faced....

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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 1,974 ratings
    • From a preeminent historian of Eastern Europe, the definitive history of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster....

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    • Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
    • By: Kim Zetter
    • Narrated by: Joe Ochman
    • Length: 13 hrs
    • Release date: 11-11-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,362 ratings
    • The virus now known as Stuxnet was unlike any other piece of malware built before: Rather than simply hijacking targeted computers or stealing information from them, it proved that a piece of code could escape the digital realm and wreak actual, physical destruction....

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    • Camouflage, Weapons, and Stealthy Attacks
    • By: Marcia Amidon Lusted
    • Narrated by: anonymous
    • Length: 19 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Ninja warriors were masters of stealth and disguise. They could quickly defeat their enemies without raising the alarm. They may not have realized it, but they owed their success to science. Learn how science helped ninjas successfully achieve their secret missions....

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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 1,974 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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    • How the U.S. Military Shapes the Way You Eat
    • By: Anastacia Marx de Salcedo
    • Narrated by: C.S.E Cooney
    • Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 48 ratings
    • Anastacia Marx de Salcedo shows how the Department of Defense Combat Feeding Directorate plans, funds, and spreads the food science that enables it to produce cheap, imperishable rations....

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    • The Remarkable Story of the Inventor Whose Firearms Changed the World
    • By: Nathan Gorenstein
    • Narrated by: Michael David Axtell
    • Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 05-25-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 296 ratings
    • Few people are aware that John Moses Browning - a tall, humble, cerebral man born in 1855 and raised as a Mormon in the American West - was the mind behind many of the world-changing firearms that dominated more than a century of conflict....

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    • The Race to Build - and Steal - the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
    • By: Steve Sheinkin
    • Narrated by: Roy Roy Samuelson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 633 ratings
    • In December of 1938, a chemist in a German laboratory made a shocking discovery: When placed next to radioactive material, a Uranium atom split in two. That simple discovery launched a scientific race that spanned three continents....

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