Nuclear Science Technology

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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 117 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 Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
    • By: Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
    • Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
    • Length: 26 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,847 ratings
    • J. Robert Oppenheimer, an iconic figure of the 20th century, was a brilliant physicist who led efforts to build an atomic bomb but later confronted the moral consequences of scientific progress....

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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 1,986 ratings
    • From a preeminent historian of Eastern Europe, the definitive history of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster....

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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 97 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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    • 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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    • A Brief History of Hype and Failure
    • By: Vaclav Smil
    • Narrated by: Tim Fannon
    • Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 73 ratings
    • From the New York Times-bestselling author comes a new volume on the history of human ingenuity—and its attendant breakthroughs and busts....

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    • A Life Inside the Center
    • By: Ray Monk
    • Narrated by: Michael Goldstrom
    • Length: 35 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 364 ratings
    • Robert Oppenheimer was among the most brilliant and divisive of men....

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    • The Frightening True Story of a Whiz Kid and His Homemade Nuclear Reactor
    • By: Ken Silverstein
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
    • Growing up in suburban Detroit, David Hahn was fascinated by science. While he was working on his Atomic Energy badge for the Boy Scouts, David's obsessive attention turned to nuclear energy. Throwing caution to the wind, he plunged into a new project: building a model nuclear reactor....

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    • The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age
    • By: David N. Schwartz
    • Narrated by: Tristan Morris
    • Length: 15 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 376 ratings
    • The definitive biography of the brilliant, charismatic, and very human physicist and innovator Enrico Fermi....

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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 32 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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    • Beneath the Ice
    • By: Mikael Lundt
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-25
    • Language: English
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    • A gripping science thriller in the Arctic! Mysterious nanoparticles in a Greenland ice core confront biologist Nora Grimm with a fascinating puzzle...

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Joseph M. Siracusa
    • Narrated by: Shawn Compton
    • Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 12-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • This Very Short Introduction looks at the science of nuclear weapons and how they differ from conventional weapons....

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    • The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller
    • By: Gregg Herken
    • Narrated by: Perry Daniels
    • Length: 15 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 05-21-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Gregg Herken's Brotherhood of the Bomb is the fascinating story of the men who founded the nuclear age, fully told for the first time

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    • The Epic Rise and Dramatic Fall of the Atomic Era
    • By: Craig Nelson
    • Narrated by: George Newbern
    • Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-25-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 91 ratings
    • From the New York Times best-selling author of Rocket Men and the award-winning biographer of Thomas Paine comes the first complete history of the Atomic Age....

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    • The Extraordinary Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Ettore Majorana, the Troubled Genius of the Nuclear Age
    • By: Joao Magueijo
    • Narrated by: Christopher Sullivan
    • Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 12-24-09
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • On the night of March 26, 1938, nuclear physicist Ettore Majorana boarded a ship, cash and passport in hand....

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    • The Man Who Developed the Atomic Bomb, Ignited the Nuclear Age, and Grappled With the Weight of His Creation
    • By: Hourglass History, Julian Pembroke
    • Narrated by: Andrew Robert Wilcox
    • Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Stand witness to the conception of the deadliest weapon in human history, amidst the clandestine walls of Los Alamos. Delve into the mind that revolutionized the world....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: J. L. Heilbron
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • In this Very Short Introduction, John Heilbron draws on sources never before presented in English to cover the life and work of one of the most creative physicists of the 20th century....

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