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109 East Palace
Simon & Schuster 2007; Not AvailableThey were told as little as possible. Their orders were to go to Santa Fe, New Mexico, and report for work at a classified Manhattan Project site, a location so covert it was known to them only by the mysterious address: 109 East Palace. There, behind a wrought-iron gate and narrow passageway just off the touristy old plaza, they were greeted by Dorothy... more...
109 East Palace
Simon & Schuster 2007; US$ 16.99They were told as little as possible. Their orders were to go to Santa Fe, New Mexico, and report for work at a classified Manhattan Project site, a location so covert it was known to them only by the mysterious address: 109 East Palace. There, behind a wrought-iron gate and narrow passageway just off the touristy old plaza, they were greeted by Dorothy... more...
109 East Palace
Simon & Schuster 2007; Not AvailableThey were told as little as possible. Their orders were to go to Santa Fe, New Mexico, and report for work at a classified Manhattan Project site, a location so covert it was known to them only by the mysterious address: 109 East Palace. There, behind a wrought-iron gate and narrow passageway just off the touristy old plaza, they were greeted by Dorothy... more...
15 Minutes
St. Martin's Press 2011; US$ 17.99Packed with startling revelations, this inside look at the secret side of the Cold War exposes just how close America came to total annihilation During the Cold War, a flight crew had 15 minutes to get their nuke-laden plane in the air from the moment Soviet bombers were detected?15 minutes between the earliest warning of an incoming nuclear... more...
The A to Z of Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Warfare
Scarecrow Press 2009; US$ 33.99The A to Z of Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Warfare covers the development and use of nuclear, biological, and chemical (NBC) weapons as well as efforts to limit or control the use of these weapons through a chronology, a bibliography, an introductory essay, and dictionary entries. Over 500 cross-referenced dictionary entries provide a unique selection... more...
After The Bomb
Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 95.00Civil defence was an integral part of Britain's modern history. Throughout the cold war it was a central response of the British Government to the threat of war. This book will be the first history of the preparations to fight a nuclear war taken in Britain between the end of the Second World War and 1968. more...
Airborne Radioactive Contamination in Inhabited Areas
Elsevier Science 2009; US$ 175.00For many decades, investigations of the behaviour and implications of radioactive contamination in the environment have focused on agricultural areas and food production. This was due to the erroneous assumption that the consequences of credible contaminating incidents would be restricted to rural areas. However, due to the Chernobyl accident, more... more...
Arsenals of Folly
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2007; US$ 16.95Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes delivers a riveting account of the nuclear arms race and the Cold War. In the Reagan-Gorbachev era, the United States and the Soviet Union came within minutes of nuclear war, until Gorbachev boldly launched a campaign to eliminate nuclear weapons, setting the stage for the 1986 Reykjavik summit and the... more...
At the Abyss
Random House Publishing Group 2007; US$ 16.00?The Cold War . . . was a fight to the death,? notes Thomas C. Reed, ?fought with bayonets, napalm, and high-tech weaponry of every sort?save one. It was not fought with nuclear weapons.? With global powers now engaged in cataclysmic encounters, there is no more important time for this essential, epic account of the past half century, the tense... more...
At the Nuclear Precipice
Palgrave Macmillan 2008; US$ 34.00This book examines the intersections between international law and national policies, and nuclear proliferation and disarmament, offering a way out if policy makers of leading countries can summon the vision and political will to move away from the nuclear precipice and ensure humanity's future. more...









