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Receiving intelligence from a former enemy that nuclear relics from the fallen Soviet Empire are being sold to hostile adversaries, U.S. skipper Jerry Mitchell teams up with dubious allies in an effort to stop Indian nationalist from triggering an Asian nuclear war.
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Making of the nuclear age volume 3
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2007
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English
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The story of the postwar superpower arms race, climaxing during the Reagan-Gorbachev decade. Drawing on a wealth of new documentation, Rhodes reveals how the Reagan administration's unprecedented arms buildup in the early 1980s led Soviet leader Andr
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Rourke Pub
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c2006
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IL: MG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 1
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This book describes weapons of mass destruction, chemical, biological, and nuclear devices for defense or deterrent purposes, and emphasizes that the consequences of a WMD attack would be devastating and would continue beyond the present generation.
5) Unthinkable
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Distributed in Canada by E1 Entertainment
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[2010]
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English
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"A psychological thriller centered around a black-ops interrogator and an FBI agent who press a suspect terrorist into divulging the location of three nuclear weapons sets to detonate in the U.S."--From www.imdb.com.
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When an eminent scientist makes a startling breakthrough in nuclear weapons research only to have the lives of his family threatened if he does not give his technology to the Iranian regime, Sean Dillon, Afghan war hero Sara Gideon and the rest of their team embark on a daring rescue mission that rapidly spins out of control.
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Almost 145,000 Americans fled their homes in and around Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in late March 1979, hoping to save themselves from an invisible enemy: radiation. The reactor at the nearby Three Mile Island nuclear power plant had gone into partial meltdown, and scientists feared an explosion that could spread radiation throughout the eastern United States. Thankfully, the explosion never took place―but the accident left deep scars in the American...
9) Bomb grade
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As the dust settles after the demise of the Cold War, Charlie Muffin must thwart a plan that could bring the world to the brink of nuclear holocaust It has been more than five years since the collapse of the Soviet Union, and Charlie Muffin, Britain's cagiest spy, is beginning to feel obsolete. As the machine of state intelligence is dismantled around him, he expects that he too will soon be on the scrap heap. But Britain needs him in Russia one...
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As the residents of Winthrop Island prepare for the first summer season after the sacrifice of war, a glamorous new figure moves into the guest cottage at Summerly, the idyllic seaside estate of the wealthy Peabody family. To Emilia Winthrop, daughter of Summerly's year-round caretaker and a descendant of the island's settlers, Olive Rainsford opens a window into a world of shining possibility. While Emilia spent the war years caring for her incapacitated...
13) 24: Season 2
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
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English
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Twenty-four hours of a counter-terrorist agent's attempt to prevent a terrorist's nuclear device from exploding in Los Angeles.
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From a hidden enclave in the maze of Tehran, an Iranian scientist who calls himself "Dr. Ali" sends an encrypted message to the CIA. It falls to Harry Pappas to decide if it's for real. Dr. Ali sends more secrets of the Iranian bomb program to the agency, then panics. He's being followed, but he doesn't know who's onto him, and neither does Pappas. The White House is no help-they're looking for a pretext to attack Tehran.To get his agent out, Pappas...
15) MacGruber
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Universal
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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Only one operative has been awarded 16 purple hearts, and only one guy is man enough to still sport a mullet. In the 10 years since his fianc?e was killed, special op MacGruber has sworn off a life of fighting crime with his bare hands. But when he learns his country needs him to find a nuclear warhead that's been stolen by his sworn enemy, MacGruber teams up with his trusty sidekick and an uptight lieutenant to get the job done.
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Jack Reacher novels volume 21
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"Discover the thriller series that The New York Times calls "utterly addictive." After eleven straight global #1 bestsellers, Lee Child sends readers back to school with the most explosive Jack Reacher novel yet. It's 1996, and Reacher is still in the army. In the morning they give him a medal, and in the afternoon they send him back to school. That night he's off the grid. Out of sight, out of mind. Two other men are in the classroom--an FBI agent...
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"A riveting narrative of the Atomic Age--from x-rays and Marie Curie to the Nevada Test Site and the 2011 meltdown in Japan--written by the prizewinning and bestselling author of Rocket Men. Radiation is a complex and paradoxical concept: staggering amounts of energy flow from seemingly inert rock and that energy is both useful and dangerous. While nuclear energy affects our everyday lives--from nuclear medicine and food irradiation to microwave technology--its...
18) The red horseman
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Jake Grafton novels volume 5
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Jake Grafton, a Defense Intelligence agent, is dispatched to Moscow. His mission is to keep the twenty thousand nuclear weapons from the former Soviet Union from getting on the black market, but there are many who would like to see him fail.
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Eric Steele is in an elite clandestine unit known simply as "the Program". Steele is on assignment in Beirut when a CIA convoy is attacked and a nuclear weapon is stolen. Soon it becomes clear that the perpetrators are from Steele's past and the geopolitical events take a personal turn.
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Covert CIA ops officer Vanessa Pierson is finally close to capturing the world's most dangerous international nuclear arms dealer: Bhoot, alias the ghost. One of her assets has information about Bhoot's upcoming visit to a secret underground nuclear weapons facility in Iran -- in only a few days. But just as Pierson's informant is about to give her the location, they're ambushed by an expert sniper. Pierson narrowly escapes. Her asset: dead.
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