Weapon History

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    • An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency
    • By: Annie Jacobsen
    • Narrated by: Annie Jacobsen
    • Length: 18 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 09-22-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,936 ratings
    • Discover the definitive history of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, in this Pulitzer Prize finalist from the author of the New York Times best seller Area 51....

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    • By: John Keegan
    • Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
    • Length: 19 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 08-12-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 343 ratings
    • Starting with the premise that all civilizations owe their origins to warmaking, Keegan probes the meanings, motivations, and methods underlying war in different societies....

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    • The Contest for the Center of the World
    • By: Roger Crowley
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 07-30-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,132 ratings
    • Empires of the Sea tells the story of the 50-year world war between Islam and Christianity for the Mediterranean....

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    • A Military Analysis of the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War and the Future of Warfighting
    • By: John Antal, Alexander Kott - foreword
    • Narrated by: Jim Seybert
    • Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • The second Nagorno-Karabakh war—fought between Armenia and Azerbaijan between September 24 and November 10, 2020—was the first war in history won primarily by unmanned systems. This forty-four-day war resulted in a decisive military victory for Azerbaijan....

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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 95 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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    • The New Nuclear Arms Race and Presidential Power from Truman to Trump
    • By: William J. Perry, Tom Z. Collina
    • Narrated by: John Pruden
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
    • Written in an accessible and authoritative voice, The Button reveals the shocking tales and sobering facts of nuclear executive authority throughout the atomic age, delivering a powerful condemnation against ever leaving explosive power this devastating under one person's thumb....

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    • WWII's Most Daring D-Day Mission and the Hunt to Take Down Hitler's Fugitive War Criminals
    • By: Damien Lewis
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 04-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 126 ratings
    • On the night of June 13th, 1944, a 12-man SAS unit parachuted into occupied France. Their objective: hit German forces deep behind the lines, cutting the rail-tracks linking Central France to the northern coastline....

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    • The Secret Mission to Storm a Forbidden Nazi Fortress
    • By: Damien Lewis
    • Narrated by: Matt Bates
    • Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • It is the winter of 1944. Allied forces have succeeded in liberating most of Axis-occupied Italy - with one crucial exception: the Nazi headquarters north of the Gothic Line. Heavily guarded and surrounded by rugged terrain, the mountain fortress is nearly impenetrable....

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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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    • By: C. J. Chivers
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 18 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 435 ratings
    • It is the world's most widely recognized weapon, the most profuse tool for killing ever made....

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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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    • Tinian, the Last Stage of the Manhattan Project, and the Dropping of the Atomic Bombs on Japan in World War II
    • By: Don A. Farrell, Dr. Gordon E. Castanza - editor
    • Narrated by: John Lescault
    • Length: 18 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 01-15-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • Mariana Islands historian Don Farrell presents a thoroughly researched mosaic of the final phase of the Manhattan Project, from the Battle of Tinian and the USS Indianapolis to Hiroshima and Nagasaki....

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    • The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons
    • By: Kris Newby
    • Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
    • Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 05-14-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 480 ratings
    • This true story dives into the mystery surrounding one of the most controversial and misdiagnosed conditions of our time - Lyme disease - and of Willy Burgdorfer, the man who discovered the microbe behind it....

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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
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    • 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 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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