azw3 |eng | 2007-12-02 | Author:Frantz, Douglas & Collins, Catherine [Frantz, Douglas]

THE LESSONS of North Korea and South Africa, and to a lesser extent Iraq, demonstrated that preventing proliferation and avoiding the unthinkable demanded addressing the root causes of why nations ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 1993-01-02 | Author:Tom Clancy [Clancy, Tom]

Another problem for potential hunters of Russian SSBNs results from the manner in which they are employed and deployed. One of the early goals of missile designers in the former ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2007-12-04 | Author:Len Deighton

Bismarck now had everything he wanted. He looked for stability and was ready to concede the seas to Britain. But in 1888 a vain and excitable young emperor inherited the ...

epub |eng | 2008-12-13 | Author:Clyde Burleson [BURLESON, CLYDE]

16 August 2000—0800 Hours—Barents Sea The fourth day dawned with a prediction of more storms. While that was disappointing, spirits rose with the arrival of another DSRV. This was a ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Richard Rhodes

The target sphere could be simply welded to the muzzle of a cannon; then the cylinder, which might weigh about a hundred pounds, could be fired up the barrel like ...

epub |eng | 2009-12-26 | Author:George Weller [Weller, George]

XI The Defense of Australia By his own admission, Weller arrived in Australia scared and filled with “guilt about the people left behind.” (At least one colleague “escaped and went ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-17 | Author:Eric Schlosser [Schlosser, Eric]

Epilogue The sociologist Charles B. Perrow began his research on dangerous technologies in August 1979, after the partial meltdown of the core at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant. ...

epub |eng | 2009-10-30 | Author:Neil Sheehan [Sheehan, Neil]

epub |eng | | Author:Richard Rhodes

The target sphere could be simply welded to the muzzle of a cannon; then the cylinder, which might weigh about a hundred pounds, could be fired up the barrel like ...

epub, mobi | | 2004-03-18 | Author:Rodger W. Claire

Ever since Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini had landed in Tehran in February 1979, Saddam had kept a jaundiced eye to his east. Socialist and secular, Hussein distrusted the bearded, fanatically religious ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-03-05 | Author:Kiernan, Denise [Kiernan, Denise]

CHAPTER 10 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Curiosity and Silence A three-year concentration of curiosity should be quite a potent brew for the average woman. —Vi Warren, Oak Ridge Journal ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2006-12-25 | Author:George Weller

March 1 The bush near us has taken an awful beating in the past weeks—looks as though the whole Japanese army has been hunting us. Had a good night’s sleep ...

epub |eng | 2013-04-29 | Author:Rudolph Herzog [Herzog, Rudolph]

CHAPTER SEVEN Flying Reactors There are places where radioactive substances have no business being. One of them is space. That may sound like science fiction, but it is, in fact, ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-02-13 | Author:Jim Baggott

Special task force It seems likely that Kurchatov first learned of the implosion principle from Theodore Hall. The young spy had used a simple cipher based on Walt Whitman’s Leaves ...