Cold
War Secret Nuclear Bunkers
by Nick McCamley
(Hardcover - April 2002)
Blood and Water : Sabotaging Hitler's Bomb
Dan Kurzman
Listed under Scandinavia_WW2
The Day Man Lost Hiroshima, 6 August 1945
by Pacific War Research Society
Listed under Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Einstein's German World
by Fritz Richard Stern
Listed under German Resistance to Hitler
The
Doomsday
Scenario: How America Ends
by L. Douglas Keeney, Douglas L. Keeney
(Hardcover - February 2002)
India's
Nuclear Bomb : The Impact on Global Proliferation (Philip E. Lilienthal
Book)
by George Perkovich
(Hardcover - November 1999)
Jane's Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Defense
Listed under Jane's Military Books
The
Kremlin's Nuclear Sword: The Rise and Fall of Russia's Strategic Nuclear
Forces, 1945-2000
by Steven J. Zaloga, Steve Zaloga
(Hardcover - April 2002)
100
Suns
by Michael Light
Book Description: Between July 1945 and November 1962 the United
States is known to have conducted 216 atmospheric and underwater nuclear
tests. After the Limited Test Ban Treaty between the United States and
the Soviet Union in 1963, nuclear testing went underground. It became literally
invisible—but more frequent: the United States conducted a further 723
underground tests, the last in 1992. 100 Suns documents the era of visible
nuclear testing, the atmospheric era, with one hundred photographs drawn
by Michael Light from the archives at Los Alamos National Laboratory and
the U.S. National Archives in Maryland. It includes previously classified
material from the clandestine Lookout Mountain Air Force Station based
in Hollywood, whose film directors, cameramen and still photographers were
sworn to secrecy.
The title, 100 Suns, refers to the response by J.Robert Oppenheimer
to the world's first nuclear explosion in New Mexico when he quoted a passage
from the Bhagavad Gita, the classic Vedic text: “If the radiance of a
thousand suns were to burst forth at once in the sky, that would be like
the splendor of the Mighty One . . . I am become Death, the destroyer of
worlds.” This was Oppenheimer's attempt to describe the otherwise indescribable.
100 Suns likewise confronts the indescribable by presenting without embellishment
the stark evidence of the tests at the moment of detonation. Since the
tests were conducted either in Nevada or the Pacific the book is simply
divided between the desert and the ocean. Each photograph is presented
with the name of the test, its explosive yield in kilotons or megatons,
the date and the location. The enormity of the events recorded is contrasted
with the understated neutrality of bare data. Interspersed within the sequence
of explosions are pictures of the awestruck witnesses.
The evidence of these photographs is terrifying in its implication while
at same time profoundly disconcerting as a spectacle. The visual grandeur
of such imagery is balanced by the chilling facts provided at the end of
the book in the detailed captions, a chronology of the development of nuclear
weaponry and an extensive bibliography. A dramatic sequel to Michael Light's
Full Moon, 100 Suns forms an unprecedented historical document.
Hardcover from Knopf
Book Published: 21 October, 2003 |
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One
Nation Underground: The Fallout Shelter in American Culture
by Kenneth D. Rose
(Hardcover - August 2001)
Nuclear
Rites : A Weapons Laboratory at the End of the Cold War
by Hugh Gusterson
(Paperback - February 1998)
Survival
City: Adventures Among the Ruins of Atomic America
by Tom Vanderbilt
Book Description: The Cold War was the war that never happened. Nonetheless,
it spurred the most significant buildup of military contingency this country
has ever known: from the bunkers of Greenbrier, West Virginia, to the "proving
grounds" of Nevada, where entire cities were built only to be vaporized.
The Cold War was waged on a territory that knew no boundaries but left
few traces.
In this fascinating--and at turns frightening and comical--travelogue
to the hidden battlefields of the Cold War, Tom Vanderbilt travels the
Interstate (itself a product of the Cold War) to uncover the sites of Cold
War architecture and reflect on their lasting heritage.
In the process, Vanderbilt shows us what the Cold War landscape looked
like, how architecture tried to adapt to the threat of mass destruction,
how cities coped with the knowledge that they were nuclear targets, and
finally what remains of the Cold War theater today, both its visible and
invisible legacies. Ultimately, Vanderbilt gives us a deep look into our
cultural soul, the dreams and fears that drove us for the last half of
the 20th century.
Hardcover from Princeton Architectural Press
Book Published: March, 2002
Life
After Doomsday : A Survivalist Guide to Nuclear War and Other Major Disasters
by Bruce D. Clayton
(Paperback - May 1992)
Nuclear
Weapons
by William Lambers
(Paperback)
Israel
and the Bomb
by Avner Cohen
(Paperback)
The
Myths of August : A Personal Exploration of Our Tragic Cold War Affair
With the Atom
by Stewart L. Udall
(Paperback - March 1998)
Megawatts and Megatons: A Turning Point in the Nuclear Age
by Richard L. Garwin, Georges Charpak
Listed under Nuclear
Engineering
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
by Richard Rhodes
Listed under The Manhatten Project
Nuclear
War Survival Skills : Updated and Expanded 1987 Edition
by Cresson H. Kearny
(Paperback - May 1999)
Special Order
ROCKET AND THE REICH : PEENEMUNDE AND THE COMING OF THE BALLISTIC
MISSILE ERA
by Michael Neufeld
Listed under Nazi Secret Weapons
Russian
Strategic Nuclear Forces
by P. L. Podvig (Editor)
Hardcover: 620 pages
MIT Press; ISBN: 0262162024; 1st edition (November 1,
2001)
The
Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A Debate Renewed, Second Edition
by Scott D. Sagan, Kenneth N. Waltz
Paperback from W.W. Norton & Company
Book Published: January, 2003
Waiting
for the End of the World
by Richard Ross
Book Description: Where will you go when the trouble starts? For countless
people around the world, the answer is that bomb shelter down in the basement.
In fact, people from around the work have been building shelters to protect
themselves from catastrophe -- natural disaster, war, nuclear events --
for centuries. Waiting for the End of the World is photographer Richard
Ross's journey into this quirky, somewhat paranoid, and occasionally beautiful
underground world. Ross has documented not only the bomb shelters of the
United States, but also examples from Vietnam, Russia, England, Turkey,
and even Switzerland, where citizens are required by law to have a bomb
shelter. Ross's subjects include the Greenbrier Hotel in West Virginia,
where a shelter was built to house the entire U.S. Congress, shelters in
Beijing, where the Chinese built a complete city underground, and Hittite
shelters in Eastern Turkey built some 4,000 years ago. His ethereal images
show spaces that at once provide only the barest necessities for survival
but maintain a level of idiosyncratic personality that testify to the endurance
-- and wackiness -- of the human spirit. Waiting for the End of the World
features an interview by author and social commentator Sarah Vowell.
Paperback from Princeton Architectural Press
Book Published: June, 2004 |
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The Coming Nuclear War
by Dr. Helen Caldicott
(Hardcover)
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Ghost Fleet: The Sunken Ships of Bikini Atoll
by James P. Delgado
(Hardcover - December 1996)
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