Nuclear Weapons & Warfare History
epub |eng | 2018-04-19 | Author:Eric Thompson [Thompson, Eric]

**** Fire is one of the worst things that can happen in a submarine. It very rapidly burns up the limited amount of oxygen on board and turns it into ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism July 25,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-07-07 | Author:Cynthia C. Kelly [Kelly, Cynthia C.]

In short, what meager reports we had prior to the Alsos Mission discoveries tended to indicate an active German project. The reports were erroneous. The Germans were, in fact, doing ...
( Category: Inspirational July 8,2020 )
epub |eng | 2009-07-14 | Author:Amir D. Aczel

THESE CHARACTER IMPRESSIONS give us an idea who the scientists involved in Hitler’s quest for a bomb were. But what had they really done? More than six decades after the ...
( Category: Nuclear Engineering July 5,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-25 | Author:Garry Wills [Wills, Garry]

In reversing the appeal, the majority sent the case back to the original court for any further proceedings “consistent with the views expressed in this opinion.”18 Biddle saw little point ...
( Category: Arms Control July 3,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-07 | Author:Brad Elward

Capable of firing 3,000 rounds per minute, the Mk 15 Close-In Weapons System (CWIS) 20mm gun provides close-in defense against incoming missiles. This image shows a test-firing of one of ...
( Category: Nuclear Weapons & Warfare History June 30,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Keir A. Lieber

Nuclear Threats and Conventional Deterrence: Alternative Views How nuclear weapons can be used to deter conventional attack has been the subject of intense debate for decades. In the Cold War, ...
( Category: Nuclear Weapons & Warfare History June 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-07-01 | Author:Gartner, John & Buser, Steven & Cruz, Leonard [Gartner, John]

Images from the Cuban Missile Crisis These images record the gravity of the situation President Kennedy dealt with during 10 fateful days in October of 1962. How deliberative and circumspect ...
( Category: Elections May 12,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:A.M. Gittlitz;

11 Hombrecitos A small team from the Italian section greeted the exiles at the airport. Recognizing the security failures of the Latin American sections from furious circulars, they had spent ...
( Category: Caribbean & Latin American April 18,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2018-07-01 | Author:John Gartner & Steven Buser & Leonard Cruz [Gartner, John]

Images from the Cuban Missile Crisis These images record the gravity of the situation President Kennedy dealt with during 10 fateful days in October of 1962. How deliberative and circumspect ...
( Category: Psychology & Counseling April 1,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-24 | Author:Scarry, Elaine [Scarry, Elaine]

THE PLACE OF HABIT IN ACTS OF THINKING The rejection of procedures and constitutional guarantees, this chapter has so far suggested, comes from three sources: first, the belief that action ...
( Category: Arms Control March 25,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Herman Kahn

Analytic treatments of war during the last five or ten years have a real possibility of being more reliable than the same kind of attempt made in preceding decades. The ...
( Category: Military Technology March 24,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-02 | Author:Mary Palevsky

I responded that I was thinking more in terms of power, that Groves had given Oppenheimer the power he wanted. Here, Jane Wilson, who had been quietly listening, reentered the ...
( Category: History & Philosophy March 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 2006-07-15 | Author:Michael Karpin

Otto Joklik also joined the Israeli effort. On March 2, 1963, Joklik and Mossad operative Joseph Ben-Gal were sent to Basel, Switzerland, to warn Hans and Heidi, the children of ...
( Category: Middle Eastern March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:David C. Cassidy

As the Allied bombing campaign mounted over Germany, Heisenberg’s uranium did not arrive until nearly a year later. Now fully exonerated and the fission project safely underway as a demonstration ...
( Category: Nuclear Physics March 19,2020 )
epub | | 2013-08-11 | Author:Department of the Army, Peter T. Underwood [Colonel Peter T.]

If the person is conscious, give him hot, sweetened fluids. One of the best sources of calories is honey or dextrose; if unavailable, use sugar, cocoa, or a similar soluble ...
( Category: Survival & Emergency Preparedness March 16,2020 )