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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,432 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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    • 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 731 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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    • 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 322 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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    • A Scenario
    • By: Annie Jacobsen
    • Narrated by: Annie Jacobsen
    • Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 22 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 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 89 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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    • From Hunter-Gatherers to Nuclear Superpowers—A Retelling for Our Times
    • By: Gwynne Dyer
    • Narrated by: Gareth Richards
    • Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 09-13-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • War has always been a defining feature of human society. This new addition to the Shortest History series explains why we do it—and how we can stop....

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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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    • 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 91 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 True Story of a U.S. Cold War Submarine's Covert Operations Against the Soviet Union
    • By: Peter Sasgen
    • Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
    • Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 372 ratings
    • Stalking the Red Bear, for the first time ever, describes the action principally from the perspective of a commanding officer of a nuclear submarine during the Cold War....

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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 104 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 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 1,275 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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    • A One Hour Crash Course
    • By: David Kobler, JD Dutra
    • Narrated by: Graham Mack
    • Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Is it worthwhile to invest one hour of your time to learning about nuclear war survival? The devastating events in Hiroshima and Nagasaki proved that there will always be survivors in the aftermath of a nuclear explosion....

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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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    • Dropping the Atom Bomb and the End of World War II in the Pacific
    • By: Bill O'Reilly
    • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
    • Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 428 ratings
    • Autumn 1944. World War II is nearly over in Europe, but in the Pacific, American soldiers face an enemy who will not surrender....

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    • Recent Challenges, New Dangers, and the Prospects for a World Without Nuclear Weapons
    • By: Richard Rhodes
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Series: Richard Rhodes' Nuclear Histories
    • Length: 13 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 08-24-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 169 ratings
    • The culminating volume in Richard Rhodes’s monumental and prizewinning history of nuclear weapons, offering the first comprehensive narrative of the challenges faced in a post-Cold War age. The past 20 years have transformed our relationship with nuclear weapons drastically....

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    • Understanding How U.S. and NATO Policies Led to Crisis, War, and the Risk of Nuclear Catastrophe
    • By: Benjamin Abelow
    • Narrated by: Larry Wayne
    • Length: 1 hr and 39 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
    • According to the mainstream Western narrative, Vladimir Putin is an insatiable, Hitler-like expansionist who invaded Ukraine in an unprovoked land grab. That story is incorrect. In reality, the United States and NATO bear much of the responsibility for the Ukraine crisis....

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    • Life After Nuclear War
    • By: Susan Southard
    • Narrated by: Traci Kato-Kiriyama
    • Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 07-28-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 84 ratings
    • Published on the 70th anniversary of the bombing, Nagasaki takes listeners from the morning of the bombing to the city today, telling the firsthand experiences of five survivors....

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