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Book The Invisible Bomb

    Book Details:
  • Author : Frank Barnaby
  • Publisher : I.B. Tauris
  • Release : 1989-12-31
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 248 pages

Download or read book The Invisible Bomb written by Frank Barnaby and published by I.B. Tauris. This book was released on 1989-12-31 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Invisible War

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  • Author : Gil Murray
  • Publisher : Dundurn
  • Release : 2001-11-01
  • ISBN : 1770701079
  • Pages : 305 pages

Download or read book The Invisible War written by Gil Murray and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2001-11-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the Second World War raged in Europe, demanding most of Canada’s military effort, an equally fierce war with Japan was going on in the Far East. Army, navy, and air force signals units in Canada kept watch on the enemy’s vital radio communications. To be more effective, Number One Canadian Special Wireless Group of the Royal Canadian Signals Corps was formed to go to the Southwest Pacific war theatre for close-in radio eavesdropping. Murray describes the often zany career of the only complete signals unit Canada sent to the War in the Pacific, and the significant part it played in the Allied signals intelligence operation known as "Magic."

Book The Invisible Harry Gold

Download or read book The Invisible Harry Gold written by Allen M. Hornblum and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-28 with total page 669 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping account of the man who gave the USSR the plans for the atom bomb. The subject of the most intensive public manhunt in the history of the FBI, Gold was arrested in May 1950. His confession revealed scores of contacts, and his testimony in the trial of the Rosenbergs proved pivotal.

Book Israel  the First Hundred Years

Download or read book Israel the First Hundred Years written by Efraim Karsh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The end of the British mandate in Palestine heralded the birth of the new state of Israel. It also marked the end of one of the most tumultuous and momentous chapters in Israeli history. But the new state, born into a hostile environment and struggling with the manifold demands of sovereignty, would have to face many post-Independence challenges to its existence, not least in the form of armed conflict and confrontation with its Arab neighbours. This volume examines the conflicts that from the 1948 until the 1967 Six Day War came to define the Israeli struggle for existence.

Book The Invisible Bridge

Download or read book The Invisible Bridge written by Rick Perlstein and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a portrait of the United States during the turbulent political and economic upheavals of the 1970s, covering the transition from Richard Nixon's downfall to the rise of Ronald Reagan during the 1976 presidential campaign.

Book The Invisible War

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  • Author : Donald Grey Barnhouse
  • Publisher : Zondervan
  • Release : 1980-10-14
  • ISBN : 9780310204817
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book The Invisible War written by Donald Grey Barnhouse and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 1980-10-14 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the great conflict going on between good and evil within the spiritual realm carefully traced back to the period before the beginning of recorded time can be found in this book.

Book Military Industry and Regional Defense Policy

Download or read book Military Industry and Regional Defense Policy written by Timothy D. Hoyt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Military Industry and Regional Defense Policy re-examines military industrialization in the developing world, focusing on policy-making in producer states and the impact of security perceptions on such policy-making.Timothy D. Hoyt reassesses the role of regional state sub-systems in international relations, and recent historical studies of international technology and arms transfers. Looking at Israel, Iraq and India, the three most powerful regional powers in the Cold War era, he presesnts an expert analysis of the three-sided phenomena of the regional hegemony, the regional competitor and the small over-achiever.This new book breaks away from existing literature on military industries in the developing world, which has focused on their economic and development costs and benefits. These past studies have used primitive methodologies that focus on the production of complete weapons systems - a misleading gauge in a world of growing international defense cooperation. They have also ignored empirical evidence of the impact of local military industrial production on Cold War regional conflict, and of the defence planning and concerns that drove development of indigenous military industries in key regional powers. This new text delivers an incisive new perspective.

Book The Bomb

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gerard DeGroot
  • Publisher : Random House
  • Release : 2011-09-30
  • ISBN : 1446449610
  • Pages : 436 pages

Download or read book The Bomb written by Gerard DeGroot and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the Bomb, there were simply 'bombs', lower case. But it was the twentieth century, one hundred years of almost incredible scientific progress, that saw the birth of the Bomb, the human race's most powerful and most destructive discovery. In this magisterial and enthralling account, Gerard DeGroot gives us the life story of the Bomb, from its birth in the turn-of-the-century physics labs of Europe to a childhood in the New Mexico desert of the 1940s, from adolescence and early adulthood in Nagasaki and Bikini, Australia and Siberia to unsettling maturity in test sites and missile silos all over the globe. By turns horrific, awe-inspiring and blackly comic, The Bomb is never less than compelling.

Book The Invisible Front

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  • Author : Yochi Dreazen
  • Publisher : Crown
  • Release : 2014-10-07
  • ISBN : 0385347847
  • Pages : 346 pages

Download or read book The Invisible Front written by Yochi Dreazen and published by Crown. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unforgettable story of a military family that lost two sons—one to suicide and one in combat—and channeled their grief into fighting the armed forces’ suicide epidemic. Major General Mark Graham was a decorated two-star officer whose integrity and patriotism inspired his sons, Jeff and Kevin, to pursue military careers of their own. His wife Carol was a teacher who held the family together while Mark's career took them to bases around the world. When Kevin and Jeff die within nine months of each other—Kevin commits suicide and Jeff is killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq—Mark and Carol are astonished by the drastically different responses their sons’ deaths receive from the Army. While Jeff is lauded as a hero, Kevin’s death is met with silence, evidence of the terrible stigma that surrounds suicide and mental illness in the military. Convinced that their sons died fighting different battles, Mark and Carol commit themselves to transforming the institution that is the cornerstone of their lives. The Invisible Front is the story of how one family tries to set aside their grief and find purpose in almost unimaginable loss. The Grahams work to change how the Army treats those with PTSD and to erase the stigma that prevents suicidal troops from getting the help they need before making the darkest of choices. Their fight offers a window into the military’s institutional shortcomings and its resistance to change – failures that have allowed more than 3,000 troops to take their own lives since 2001. Yochi Dreazen, an award-winning journalist who has covered the military since 2003, has been granted remarkable access to the Graham family and tells their story in the full context of two of America’s longest wars. Dreazen places Mark and Carol’s personal journey, which begins when they fall in love in college and continues through the end of Mark's thirty-four year career in the Army, against the backdrop of the military’s ongoing suicide spike, which shows no signs of slowing. With great sympathy and profound insight, The Invisible Front details America's problematic treatment of the troops who return from war far different than when they'd left and uses the Graham family’s work as a new way of understanding the human cost of war and its lingering effects off the battlefield.

Book Sky Jumpers

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  • Author : Peggy Eddleman
  • Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
  • Release : 2013-09-24
  • ISBN : 0307981290
  • Pages : 290 pages

Download or read book Sky Jumpers written by Peggy Eddleman and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this thrilling sci-fi adventure, epic danger and impossible odds are no match for one girl's courage! Twelve-year-old Hope lives in White Rock, a town of inventors struggling to recover from World War III. But adventurous Hope is terrible at inventing. She would much rather sneak off to cliff dive into the Bomb’s Breath, the deadly band of air that surrounds the town. When bandits invade White Rock to steal its greatest invention—priceless antibiotics—the town is left with a heartbreaking choice: hand over the medicine and die from disease, or die fighting the bandits. Help lies in a neighboring town, but the bandits count everyone fourteen and older each hour. Now Hope and her friends Aaren and Brock are only ones who can escape through the Bomb’s Breath. For once, the daring and rebelliousness that usually get Hope into trouble might just save them all. A Texas Library Association’s Bluebonnet Award Selection “Eddleman brings a strong sense of atmosphere to this post-apocalyptic coming-of-age piece, and the underlying message—that it’s possible to contribute in unexpected ways—is a positive one.” —Publishers Weekly

Book Invisible Armies  An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present

Download or read book Invisible Armies An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present written by Max Boot and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 809 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As fitting for the 21st century as von Clausewitz's "On War" was in its own time, "Invisible Armies" is a complete global history of guerrilla uprisings through the ages.

Book Unmaking the Bomb

    Book Details:
  • Author : Shannon Cram
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2023-10-10
  • ISBN : 0520395123
  • Pages : 221 pages

Download or read book Unmaking the Bomb written by Shannon Cram and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Unmaking the Bomb investigates the politics of waste, exposure, and cleanup at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, a former weapons complex in Washington State. Once the heart of American plutonium production, Hanford is now engaged in the nation's largest environmental remediation effort, managing toxic materials that will long outlast their regulatory containers. This book blends ethnographic research with personal narrative to examine cleanup's administrative frames and the stories that exceed them. It describes how the body-at-risk became a waste management tool, and how reckoning with contamination informs the very definitions of health and hazard in the United States"--

Book The Invisible Death

    Book Details:
  • Author : Victor Rousseau
  • Publisher : eStar Books
  • Release : 2010-10-01
  • ISBN : 1612100651
  • Pages : 31 pages

Download or read book The Invisible Death written by Victor Rousseau and published by eStar Books. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With night-rays and darkness-antidote America strikes back at the terrific and destructive Invisible Empire.

Book Patterns of Conventional Warfighting under the Nuclear Umbrella

Download or read book Patterns of Conventional Warfighting under the Nuclear Umbrella written by Igor Davidzon and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-05-04 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how nuclear weapons influence conventional warfighting, through three case studies of countries not party to the Non-Proliferation Treaty: Pakistan, India, and Israel. The author examines how decision makers choose a preferred pattern of war management, as well as how these choices affect conflicts, suggesting that nuclear weaponization constitutes a clear change in the relative power of countries. This distribution of power within the international system expands or reduces the selection of strategies or war management patterns available to members of the international community. However, historic traumatic events like military defeats, countries’ self-images, and images of enemies form the perceptions of decision makers regarding material power and change thereof, suggesting that choices of decision makers are not affected directly by changes in relative power relations, but rather through an intermediate level of strategic culture parameter.

Book A Study Guide for Richard Rhodes s  The Making of the Atomic Bomb

Download or read book A Study Guide for Richard Rhodes s The Making of the Atomic Bomb written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Money  Magic  and How to Dismantle a Financial Bomb

Download or read book Money Magic and How to Dismantle a Financial Bomb written by David Orrell and published by Icon Books. This book was released on 2022-02-10 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Money has many apparently magical properties. It can be created out of the void - and vanish without so much as a puff of smoke. It can flash through space. It can grow without limit. And it can blow up without warning. David Orrell argues that the emerging discipline of quantum economics, of which he is at the forefront, is the key to shattering the illusions that prevent us from understanding money's true nature. In this colourful tour of the history, philosophy and mathematics of money, Orrell demonstrates how everything makes much more sense when we replace our classical economic models with ones based on quantum probability - and reveals the explosive reality of what is left once the illusions are stripped away.

Book Nuclear Ambitions

Download or read book Nuclear Ambitions written by Leonard S. Spector and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the fifth in a series on the spread of nuclear weapons. Through these reports, the Endowment seeks to increase public awareness of the fact and the danger of nuclear proliferation and to stimulate greater attention to this vital issue by policy makers, the media, and the scholarly community.The series was initiated with the publication of N