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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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 116 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 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 93 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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    • 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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    • 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 159 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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    • 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 1,966 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 2,355 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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    • 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 2,134 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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    • 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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    • 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 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 Problem Solvers Who Turned the Tide in the Second World War
    • By: Paul Kennedy
    • Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
    • Length: 16 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 03-13-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 163 ratings
    • Paul Kennedy, award-winning author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers and one of today’s most renowned historians, now provides a new and unique look at how World War II was won....

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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 289 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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    • 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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