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The Rocket and the Reich: Peenemunde and the Coming of the Ballistic Missile Era by Michael J. Neufeld
epub |eng | 1995-01-02 | Author:Michael J. Neufeld [Neufeld, Michael J.]

HIMMLER TAKES AN INTEREST Besides Speer, one other top Nazi leader began to pay close attention to the Army rocket program: the Reichsführer-SS, Heinrich Himmler. He had been informed of ...
( Category: Conventional May 12,2016 )
The Gunning of America: Business and the Making of American Gun Culture by Pamela Haag
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-04-19 | Author:Pamela Haag

THE MYSTIQUE OF THE WINCHESTER GUN COULD NOT HAVE BEEN more removed from the Winchester gun business, and in a way, that was precisely the point, and precisely the gun’s ...
( Category: Conventional May 10,2016 )
Armour Never Wearies by Timothy Dawson
epub |eng | 2013-07-18 | Author:Timothy Dawson

PART 2 LAMELLAR ARMOUR Lamellar is by far the most variable of the external small plate armours. The extreme diversity of lamellar constructions is potent evidence that this armour was ...
( Category: Conventional May 10,2016 )
The Assassination Complex by Jeremy Scahill
epub |eng | | Author:Jeremy Scahill

Stating that 75 percent of operations in the region were strikes and that “kill operations significantly reduce the intelligence available from detainees and captured material,” the study recommended an expansion ...
( Category: Conventional May 4,2016 )
The Bomb by Stephen M. Younger
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen M. Younger

THE DISASTROUS EFFECT of unauthorized entry into computer networks has been repeatedly demonstrated in the commercial sector as hackers have planted viruses, worms, and other network attack software on the ...
( Category: Arms Control April 26,2016 )
Saltpeter: The Mother of Gunpowder by Cressy David
epub |eng | 2012-12-13 | Author:Cressy, David [Cressy, David]

Saltpeter for civil war Gunpowder was at a premium in England as civil war approached. Competition for control of local magazines fuelled minor skirmishes that preceded the actual fighting. Street ...
( Category: Conventional March 20,2016 )
Strangers on a Bridge by James Donovan
epub |eng | | Author:James Donovan

Thursday, October 24 The courtroom was crowded and it was a hot day. I was pleased in this case that under the rules I would sum up first. My appeal ...
( Category: Nuclear March 8,2016 )
Tanks in Hell: A Marine Corps Tank Company on Tarawa by Oscar Gilbert
epub |eng | | Author:Oscar Gilbert [Oscar Gilbert]

RED BEACH THREE: THE MASSACRE OF THE THIRD PLATOON All four tanks of the third Platoon landed without mishap, and by noon the platoon was functioning as one of the ...
( Category: Conventional January 7,2016 )
Thirteen Days by Robert F. Kennedy
epub |eng | 1969-12-04 | Author:Robert F. Kennedy

NEW CHECKS AND BALANCES In warmaking, the Constitution contemplated enforced collaboration between the President and his fellow politicians on Capitol Hill. In practice, as the missile crisis illustrates, a strong ...
( Category: Nuclear December 5,2015 )
Bridge of Spies by Giles Whittell
epub |eng | 2010-11-09 | Author:Giles Whittell [Whittell, Giles]

What were the wives doing there? Why double the number of people who had seen the “giant black crow” close up? Why treble (at least) the amount of gossip about ...
( Category: Nuclear December 4,2015 )
The Hidden Threat by Jim Crossley
epub |eng | 2011-10-04 | Author:Jim Crossley

An idea of the work of paddle sweepers at this time can be given by quoting an account of an incident off Dunkirk in June 1917. Dunkirk was close to ...
( Category: Conventional December 3,2015 )
Churchill's Bomb by Graham Farmelo
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Graham Farmelo [Farmelo, Graham]

1 JULY TO 5 AUGUST 1945 Churchill says yes to dropping the Bomb ‘If the Russians had got [the Bomb first], it would have been the end of civilisation . ...
( Category: Nuclear November 12,2015 )
Fire In the East by Paul Bracken
epub |eng | 1999-09-20 | Author:Paul Bracken [Bracken, Paul]

NATIONALISM: THE “HOT” SIDE OF ASIAN DEFENSE Giving atomic missiles to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards is not like deploying jets in the British air force. An irrational politics of rage ...
( Category: Asian September 21,2015 )
Panzer IV at War 1939 – 1945 by Paul Thomas
epub |eng | 2012-06-18 | Author:Paul Thomas

( Category: Conventional September 7,2015 )
Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons by Ward Wilson
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-01-21 | Author:Ward Wilson [Wilson, Ward]

Those living in the three generations after Waterloo had wondered at the long peace and sought explanations in events that were happening simultaneously. They noticed that international peace coincided with ...
( Category: Arms Control June 18,2015 )

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