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109 East Palace: Robert Oppenheimer and the Secret City of Los Alamos
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /From the bestselling author of Tuxedo Park, the story of the three-thousand people who lived together in near confinement for twenty-seven intense...
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A World Destroyed: Hiroshima and Its Legacies, Third Edition / Edition 3
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Continuously in demand since its first, prize-winning edition was published in 1975, this is the classic history of the development of the Americ...
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Atomic America: How a Deadly Explosion and a Feared Admiral Changed the Course of Nuclear History
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95Original price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /On January 3, 1961, nuclear reactor SL-1 exploded in rural Idaho, spreading radioactive contamination over thousands of acres and killing three m...
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Atomic Doctors: Conscience and Complicity at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /An unflinching examination of the moral and professional dilemmas faced by physicians who took part in the Manhattan Project. After his father di...
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Breakdown: How the Secret of the Atomic Bomb was Stolen during World War II
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /The enormous effort-called the Manhattan Project-that produced the world's first atomic bomb was supposed to be the best kept secret of World War...
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Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The Oscar-shortlisted documentary Command and Control, directed by Robert Kenner, finds its origins in Eric Schlosser's book and continues to exp...
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Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days That Changed the World
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /The #1 national bestselling “riveting” (The New York Times), “propulsive” (Time) behind-the-scenes account “that reads like a tense thriller” (Th...
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Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima
PaperbackOriginal price $69.00 - Original price $69.00Original price $69.00$80.99$80.99 - $80.99Current price $80.99| /In Japan, "hibakusha" means "the people affected by the explosion—specifically, the explosion of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima in 1945. In this cl...
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El Espía Que Robó La Bomba Atómica / Sleeper Agent: The Atomic Spy in America Who Got Away
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Se infiltró en EstadosUnidos. Engañó a Oppenhiemer. Extrajo el secreto máspeligroso de todos los tiempos.Aunque nació en Iowa en 1913, George ...
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Euromissiles: The Nuclear Weapons That Nearly Destroyed NATO
HardcoverOriginal price $36.95Original price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /In Euromissiles, Susan Colbourn tells the story of the height of nuclear crisis and the remarkable waning of the fear that gripped the globe. In...
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Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /ONE of THE NEW YORK TIMES'S 100 NOTABLE BOOKS of the YEAR * A VANITY FAIR and TOWN & COUNTRY BEST BOOK of the YEAR * New York Times bestsel...
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From Berkeley to Berlin: How the Rad Lab Helped Avert Nuclear War
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95Original price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /In November 1960, bolstered by anti-Communist ideologies, John F. Kennedy was elected president of the United States. Soviet premier Nikita Khrus...
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Half-Life of a Secret: Reckoning with a Hidden History
HardcoverOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780813197197 Media Type: Hardcover Publisher: University Press of Kentucky Publication Date: 04-04-2023 Pages: 336 Product...
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Hiroshima
PaperbackOriginal price $15.00 - Original price $15.00Original price $15.00$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city. This book, John Hersey's journalistic masterpiece, tell...
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Hiroshima
PaperbackOriginal price $8.95 - Original price $8.95Original price $8.95$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /"One of the great classics of the war" (The New Republic) that tells what happened in Hiroshima through the memories of survivors--from a Pulitzer ...
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Learning to Live with the Bomb: Pakistan: 1998-2016
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /This book is a history of the evolution of Pakistan's nuclear weapons management system, including its nuclear doctrine and the measures in place t...
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Made in Hanford: The Bomb that Changed the World
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /On the eve of World War II, news of an astonishing breakthrough filtered out of Germany. Scientists there had split uranium atoms. Researchers in...
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Nagasaki: The Forgotten Prisoners
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /This is one of the most remarkable untold stories of the Second World war. At 11.02 am on an August morning in 1945 America dropped the world's mos...
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Nixon's Nuclear Specter: The Secret Alert of 1969, Madman Diplomacy, and the Vietnam War
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00$66.99$66.99 - $66.99Current price $66.99| /In their initial effort to end the Vietnam War, Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger attempted to lever concessions from Hanoi at the negotiating ta...
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Nuclear Weapons: A Very Short Introduction
PaperbackOriginal price $11.95 - Original price $11.95Original price $11.95$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /Nuclear weapons have not been used in anger since the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. Yet even after...
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Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government's Secret Plan to Save Itself--While the Rest of Us Die
PaperbackOriginal price $21.00Original price $21.00 - Original price $21.00Original price $21.00Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Now a 6-part mini-series called Why the Rest of Us Die airing on VICE TV! The shocking truth about the government’s secret plans to survive a cat...
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Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A riveting, immersive account of the agonizing decision to use nuclear weapons against Japan--a crucial turning point in World War II and geopoliti...
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Road to Surrender: Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A riveting, immersive account of the agonizing decision to use nuclear weapons against Japan--a crucial turning point in World War II and geopoliti...
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Seeking the Bomb: Strategies of Nuclear Proliferation
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /The first systematic look at the different strategies that states employ in their pursuit of nuclear weaponsMuch of the work on nuclear prolifera...
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