Nuclear History

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    • An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base
    • By: Annie Jacobsen
    • Narrated by: Annie Jacobsen
    • Length: 16 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,829 ratings
    • It is the most famous military installation in the world. And it doesn't exist. Located a mere s75 miles outside of Las Vegas in Nevada's desert, the base has never been acknowledged by the US government - but Area 51 has captivated imaginations for decades....

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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 3,154 ratings
    • Famed investigative journalist Eric Schlosser digs deep to uncover secrets about the management of America's nuclear arsenal....

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    • The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States
    • By: Alex Wellerstein
    • Narrated by: John McLain
    • Length: 17 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 10-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • Drawing on troves of declassified files, Restricted Data traces the complex evolution of the US nuclear secrecy regime from the first whisper of the atomic bomb through the mounting tensions of the Cold War and into the early 21st century....

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    • A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
    • By: Serhii Plokhy
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 06-15-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 90 ratings
    • Nearly 30 years after the end of the Cold War, today's leaders are abandoning disarmament treaties, building up their nuclear arsenals, and exchanging threats of nuclear strikes. To survive this new atomic age, we must relearn the lessons of the most dangerous moment of the Cold War....

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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 3,813 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 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 1,969 ratings
    • From a preeminent historian of Eastern Europe, the definitive history of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster....

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    • Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
    • By: Michael Dobbs
    • Narrated by: Bob Walter
    • Length: 16 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 883 ratings
    • In October 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union appeared to be sliding inexorably toward a nuclear conflict....

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    • Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
    • By: Dan Carlin
    • Narrated by: Dan Carlin
    • Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10,304 ratings
    • In The End Is Always Near, Dan Carlin looks at questions and historical events that force us to consider what sounds like fantasy; that we might suffer the same fate that all previous eras did....

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    • A New Look at the History and Future of Nuclear Power
    • By: James Mahaffey
    • Narrated by: John McLain
    • Length: 11 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,079 ratings
    • The American public's introduction to nuclear technology was manifested in destruction and death, with Hiroshima and the Cold War still ringing in our ears....

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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 98 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 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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    • 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 106 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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    • 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 292 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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    • A Technical History of the Missile That Defined American Nuclear Warfare
    • By: David Stumpf
    • Narrated by: Douglas R Pratt
    • Length: 19 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • David K. Stumpf demystifies the intercontinental ballistic missile program that was conceived at the end of the Eisenhower administration as a key component of the US nuclear strategy of massive retaliation....

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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 1,281 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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    • Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War
    • By: Fred Kaplan
    • Narrated by: Edward Bauer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 323 ratings
    • From the author the classic The Wizards of Armageddon and Pulitzer Prize finalist comes the definitive history of American policy on nuclear war - and Presidents’ actions in nuclear crises - from Truman to Trump....

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    • The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb
    • By: Richard Rhodes
    • Narrated by: Jacques Roy
    • Length: 28 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 11-26-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Here, for the first time, in a brilliant, panoramic portrait by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, is the definitive, often shocking story of the politics and the science behind the development of the hydrogen bomb and the birth of the Cold War.

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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 1,033 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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