Nuclear War History

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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
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    • 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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    • By: William Stroock
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-25
    • Language: English
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    • The Great Nuclear War of 1975 In a Different 1975… Superpower relations breakdown and a nuclear war all but annihilates the Soviet Union and ...

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    • MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War
    • By: H. W. Brands
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Length: 15 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 745 ratings
    • The riveting story of how President Harry Truman and General Douglas MacArthur squared off to decide America's future in the aftermath of World War II....

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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 99 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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    • 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 52 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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    • 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 117 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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    • 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 39 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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    • The Extraordinary Voyages of the USS Skate
    • By: James Calvert
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 02-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • Under the guidance of James Calvert this nuclear submarine had navigated through polar ice packs, braved atrociously cold conditions, and broken through layers of thick ice to arrive at their destination; the northernmost point of the world....

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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 Scenario
    • By: Annie Jacobsen
    • Narrated by: Annie Jacobsen
    • Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 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 it could start in as little as 26 minutes and 40 seconds from now....

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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 114 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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    • America's Atomic Mission in World War II
    • By: Susan Williams
    • Narrated by: Justine Eyre
    • Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 08-09-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
    • The Shinkolobwe Mine in the Belgian Congo was described by a 1943 Manhattan Project intelligence report as the "most important deposit of uranium yet discovered in the world"....

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    • Nuclear War and How to Avoid It
    • By: Mark Lynas
    • Narrated by: Tom Lawrence
    • Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 05-08-25
    • Language: English
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    • The world is currently closer to superpower conflict than at any time since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. World War III is a real possibility, and with 12,000 warheads in the arsenals of more than half a dozen countries, we are standing on a nuclear knife edge.

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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 96 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 Shocking Untold True Story of Project Sunshine
    • By: Gary Covella
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-25
    • Language: English
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    • BODY SNATCHING: The Shocking Untold True Story of Project Sunshine A Cold-War Secret Buried in Bones What if the greatest nuclear cover-up wasn't ...

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    • True Submarine Stories of the Twentieth Century
    • By: Mary Nida Smith
    • Narrated by: Paul Christy
    • Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 01-20-16
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • The unbelievable stories of the heroic men who sailed under the sea....

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