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Series
Jack Reacher novels volume 21
Language
English
Description
"Discover the thriller series that The New York Times calls "utterly addictive." After eleven straight global #1 bestsellers, Lee Child sends readers back to school with the most explosive Jack Reacher novel yet. It's 1996, and Reacher is still in the army. In the morning they give him a medal, and in the afternoon they send him back to school. That night he's off the grid. Out of sight, out of mind. Two other men are in the classroom--an FBI agent...
Author
Series
Paul Madriani novels volume 12
Language
English
Description
While in Paris to find a former NASA employee whose name has been found on papers left in his nemesis's apartment, Paul Madriani stumbles upon a plot to harness the destructive forces of nature using stolen technology.
Author
Language
English
Description
"A riveting, chilling tale of how a group of ragtag activists infiltrated one of the most secure nuclear weapons sites in the United States, told alongside a broader history of America's nuclear stewardship, from the early stages of the Manhattan Project to our country's never-ending investment in nuclear weaponry. On Saturday, July 28, 2012, three senior citizens broke into one of the most secure nuclear weapons facilities in the world. An eighty-two-year-old...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"An eminent Iranian scientist has made a breakthrough in nuclear weapons research, but he can't stand the thought of his regime owning the bomb. He would run if he could, but if he does, his family dies. It's up to Sean Dillon and the rest of the Prime Ministers private army to think of a plan. Most particularly, their newest member, an intelligence captain and Afghan war hero named Sara Gideon, thinks there just might be a way to pull it off....
10) Downwind
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Hiroshima. Nagasaki. Mercury, Nevada? The latter was the site for the testing of 928 large-scale nuclear weapons from 1951 to 1992. Martin Sheen narrates this harrowing exposé of the United States' disregard for everyone living downwind.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Radiation is a complex and paradoxical concept: staggering amounts of energy flow from seemingly inert rock and that energy is both useful and dangerous. While nuclear energy affects our everyday lives--from nuclear medicine and food irradiation to microwave technology--its invisible rays trigger biological damage, birth defects, and cellular mayhem. From the end of the nineteenth century through the use of the atomic bomb in World War II to the...
Series
Mission impossible film volume 6
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Ethan Hunt and his IMF team, along with some familiar allies, race against time after a mission gone wrong.
13) Arctic gambit
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jerry Mitchell, now the commodore of submarine Development Squadron Five, is dismayed when USS Toledo is reported missing in Arctic waters, close to Russian territory. The vessel is captained by his former shipmate and close friend, Lenny Berg. Eager to investigate, Jerry convinces the Navy to redirect one of his squadron's boats to find out what happened. It turns out Toledo was sunk just outside of Russian territorial waters by a torpedo launched...
15) Netanyahu at war
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
This is the inside story of the bitter clash between President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. Amid violence in the Middle East, the film traces Netanyahu's rise to power and his high-stakes fight with the president over Iran's nuclear program.
17) City of angels
Author
Publisher
WordFire Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
As systems become more automated, the potential for those systems to 'become smart' increases. Sometime in the near future there may come a totally new form of life on this planet: an artificial intelligence. How will it perceive us? Especially when, with thermonuclear weapons focused on Los Angeles, it is clear our intent is to destroy it.
18) Last best chance
Author
Publisher
NTI, Working for a Safer World
Pub. Date
[2004?]
Language
English
Description
Based on facts, this docudrama illustrates the threat posed by vulnerable nuclear weapons and materials around the world. The film is followed by a conversation with Tom Brokaw, former Senator Sam Nunn (D-GA) and Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN).
Author
Series
Merchant princes volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a nuclear explosion in Washington, D.C., kills the president, a dissident faction of the Clan from an alternate universe joins a faction of the U.S. government in a political takeover. There is no safe place for a pregnant Queen Miriam and her Clan except, perhaps, in the third alternate world, New Britain--which has just had a revolution and a nuclear incident of its own.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
The author presents a sobering analysis of how close the world has come to nuclear annihilation and why he believes we are once again on the brink, citing such factors as the Obama administration's intention to cut nuclear stockpiles and the expiration of a warhead quantity treaty.
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