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IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 16
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"Alas, Babylon." Those fateful words heralded the end. When a nuclear holocaust ravages the United States, a thousand years of civilization are stripped away overnight, and tens of millions of people are killed instantly. But for one small town in Florida, miraculously spared, the struggle is just beginning, as men and women of all backgrounds join together to confront the darkness.
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On August 6, 1945, the world was electrified by the news that an American Army bomber had dropped an atomic bomb, with an explosive power equivalent to 20,000 tons of TNT, on the important Japanese military center of Hiroshima. Three days later another bomb, of improved design and even greater power, was dropped on Nagasaki. The following day, Aug. 10, the Japanese sued for peace. Newspapers and magazines throughout the world printed many thousands...
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"Documents the Allied raid against occupied Norway's Vemork hydroelectric plant, the world's only supplier of an essential ingredient needed by the Nazis to build an atomic bomb, citing the teamwork of British Special Ops, a brilliant scientist and refugee Norwegian commandos that foiled Hitler's nuclear ambitions, "--NoveList.
It's 1942 and the Nazis are racing to be the first to build a weapon unlike any known before. They have the physicists,...
4) Burning the sky: Operation Argus and the untold story of the Cold War nuclear tests in outer space
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Draws on extensive research into the sociological and political impact of Cold War science as well as recently declassified sources in an account of the controversial Project Argus experiment and the unconventional vision of physicist Nicholas Christofilos.
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A memoir by retired Maj. General Charles W. Sweeney, the pilot of the B-29 that dropped the second atmoic bomb, providing an inside look at the months of planning and training that preceded the bombing, and discussing the purpose and devasting aftermath of the mission.
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