Nuclear Science

During the Cold War, American policymakers sought nuclear advantages to offset an alleged Soviet edge. Policymakers hoped that US nuclear capabilities would safeguard deterrence, when backed perhaps by a set of coercive tactics. But policymakers also hedged their bets with plans to fight a nuclear war to their advantage should deterrence fail. In The False Promise of Superiority, James H. Lebovic argues that the US approach was fraught with peril and remains so today.

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"John Returns" continues the story that tells how John Harris leads a group of survivors through the chaos of a country that has fallen apart. The US President and a coalition of third world leaders have launched a major nuclear and EMP attack on all of the major powers and killed over 100 million Americans. The Grid is down and most cars and trucks won’t run. All electronics were destroyed with the EMP blasts. The USA is in chaos with criminals and thugs attacking innocent citizens, while John and his team fight the corrupt Department of Homeland Security and the President. John Harris ...

Fast paced first novel offering an explanation why the Soviets and US reached nuclear arms agreements so rapidly in the late 80's. Story takes place in the late 1980's in Washington DC and California. Burt Grayson, a college student has the uncanny ability to control computers with telekenetic capability, something that the Department of Defense is very interested in. Turns out the Soviets have found a similarly gifted young man in Russia. When the two meet, their lives and destinies become intertwined. A page turner to the end.

Wie weit würdest du am Ende der Welt für deine Familie gehen? Inmitten einer weltweiten Katastrophe müssen sich Logan und Dakota auf den Kampf ihres Lebens vorbereiten, um einen Feind zu besiegen, der mächtiger ist als alles, was sie je erlebt haben. Der Einsatz könnte nicht höher sein, denn das Leben aller, die sie lieben, steht auf dem Spiel. Das Schicksal des Landes — und der Welt — steht auf dem Spiel. Haben sie das Zeug dazu, zu überleben? Oder ist der Preis des Sieges zu schrecklich, um ihn zu ertragen?

On June 21, 2016, Pacific Gas & Electric Company announced a plan to shutter California’s last nuclear power plant, Diablo Canyon, in 2025. The plan was hailed by environmental groups and politicians around the country. Then, suddenly, the state’s Democratic establishment reversed the decision, and in 2024 the Biden-Harris administration awarded the plant $1.1 billion in credits to extend its life. What happened in between? In Atomic Dreams, journalist and lifelong environmentalist Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow unearths the surprising answers—and the deep-seated conflicts behind them.

Ni los operadores nucleares son como Homer Simpson, ni en España se puede producir una catástrofe como la de Chernóbil, ni hoy en día podemos prescindir de la energía nuclear sin aumentar las emisiones de dióxido de carbono y la contaminación atmosférica. Así que si queremos seguir conectando los patinetes, los smartphones y los coches a la red eléctrica es importante que empecemos a ver esas denostadas centrales nucleares con otros ojos.

After 1991, international organizations from the Red Cross to Greenpeace sought to help the victims, yet found themselves stymied by post-Soviet political circumstances they did not understand. International diplomats and scientists allied to the nuclear industry evaded or denied the fact of a wide-scale public health disaster caused by radiation exposure. Efforts to spin the story about Chernobyl were largely successful; the official death toll ranges between 31 and 54 people. In reality, radiation exposure from the disaster caused between 35,000 and 150,000 deaths in Ukraine alone.

It's 1955, and Benjamin Burrows and Janie Scott are trying to live a safe, normal life in America. It's not easy when they have the power to prevent nuclear disaster, and sinister forces are circling. Soon the advice of a mysterious, unscrupulous magician propels Janie and Benjamin into danger and toward the land of the dead.

The Cuban missile crisis was the most dangerous confrontation of the Cold War and the most perilous moment in American history. In this dramatic narrative written especially for students and general listeners, Sheldon M. Stern, longtime historian at the John F. Kennedy Library, enables the listener to follow the often harrowing twists and turns of the crisis.

Alien duals, possessing the power to terraform a planet into a wasteland through their dreams, are sent to Earth to accomplish that unthinkable outcome.

A science fiction/fantasy story of a most curious planet far, far away ... with a quite sinister twist.

Gavin reassesses the strategy of flexible response, the influence of nuclear weapons during the Berlin Crisis, the origins of and motivations for US nuclear nonproliferation policy, and how to assess the nuclear dangers we face today. Archival evidence makes it clear that decision makers were more concerned about underlying geopolitical questions than about the strategic dynamic between two nuclear superpowers.

Although the Great War has ended, the resulting chaos in Germany proves fertile ground for the conspiracies inspired by the Eternal Ones and their allies, the German National Socialists. Having barely survived his contest with Contessa Civita at the conclusion of the “war to end all wars," Colonel Matt List faces a new challenge as the contessa has fled to the other side of the world—China. From her new headquarters in Shanghai, the contessa shatters the millennia-old peace, directing a civil war for domination of the Eternal Ones. With his family thrust into the middle of the war ...

The intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), designed to quickly deliver thermonuclear weapons to distant targets, was the central weapons system of the Cold War. ICBMs also carried the first astronauts and cosmonauts into orbit. More than a generation later, we are still living with the political, technological, and scientific effects of the space race, while nuclear-armed ICBMs remain on alert and in the headlines around the world. Christopher Gainor explores the US Air Force's decision, in March 1954, to build the Atlas, America's first ICBM.

Over 16 major US and many foreign cities have been nuked. The USA has lost all electronics due to several EMP blasts. The USA has reverted to lawless gangs and thugs taking over cities. The US Government is forcing most citizens into work camps for their protection. The Adventures of John Harris continues This is a post-apocalyptic story about how a hero, John Harris, leads a group of people in rebuilding the country after a coalition of Islamic Terrorists, Drug Cartels and rogue US Government thugs kill over 200 million people in the USA and Western Europe. Imagine the USA having 16 major ...

My Journey at the Nuclear Brink is a continuation of William J. Perry's efforts to keep the world safe from a nuclear catastrophe. It tells the story of his coming of age in the nuclear era, his role in trying to shape and contain it, and how his thinking has changed about the threat these weapons pose. In a remarkable career, Perry has dealt firsthand with the changing nuclear threat.

The Adventures of John Harris is a series that tells a conservative viewpoint on how our world fell apart partly because of this horrible deal for the USA. This series was meant to be science fiction. The series is likely to become a series of history books if the USA allows Iran to get the bomb. Over 16 major US and many foreign cities have been nuked. The USA has lost all electrical power and electronics due to several EMP blasts. The USA has reverted to lawless gangs and thugs taking over cities. The US Government is forcing most citizens into work camps for their protection. Revenge in ...

Once home to the United States's largest plutonium production site, the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington State is laced with 56 million gallons of radioactive waste. The threat of an explosive accident at Hanford is all too real—an event that could be more catastrophic than Chernobyl. The EPA designated Hanford the most toxic place in America; it is also the most expensive environmental clean-up job the world has ever seen, with a $677 billion price tag that keeps growing.

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. In addition to his role as a scientist, Heilbron considers Bohr as a statesman and Danish cultural icon, who built scientific institutions and pushed for the extension of international cooperation in science to all nation states. As a humanist he was concerned with the cultivation of all sides of the individual, and with the complementary contributions of all peoples to the sum of human culture.