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Preventing World War III A Realistic Grand Strategy

By: Abshire, David M.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Row, Publishers: 1988

Seller ID: 31965

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

This book is in Fine condition and has a Very Good+ to Near Fine- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean with the exception of some noticeable fading to the spine. "In this vivid, highly personal book, a leading American strategist uncovers the hidden fragility of the superpower peace that is now too often taken for granted, precisely when its foundations are rapidly eroding." "David Manker Abshire (April 11, 1926 October 31, 2014) served as a Special Counselor to Presiden...
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The Great Decision The Secret History of the Atomic Bomb

By: Amrine, Michael

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, England, William Heinemann Ltd.: 1960

Seller ID: A33945

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is one tiny nick / tear to the top spine end of the book cover. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has a couple of small edge nicks and tears along with some light wrinkling to the top spine end and one smallish spot of color lifted from the front cover by the title where a price sticker was removed by a former owner. "Between the time that Truman, then ignorant of the atomic project under way at Los Alamos, became President of the United ...
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Worlds Within Worlds: The Story of Nuclear Energy Volume 1: Atomic Weights - Energy - Electricity

By: Asimov, Isaac

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Washington D. C., U.S. Energy Research and Development Admin.: 1972

Seller ID: A34782

Binding: Pamphlet

Condition: Very Good

Photographs; This is a trade sized pamphlet with cardstock covers and a stapled spine. The pamphlet is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The pamphlet and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The covers have some beginning edge wear, rubbing and wear. The top front cover has a small spot of color rubbed away. The text pages are clean and bright. "In a way, nuclear energy has been serving man as long as he has existed. It has served all of life; it has flooded the earth for billions of years. The sun, you see, is a vast nuclear engine, and the warmth...
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Signal Communications-electronics-photography Journal of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (October 1958, Volume XIII Number 2)

By: Baird, W. J. (editor)

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Washington D. C., Signal: 1958

Seller ID: A40638

Binding: Magazine

Condition: Good

B&W Illustrations; This is an oversized magazine with illustrated covers and a stapled spine. The top spine end of the magazine has tearing and wrinkling. The covers have creasing, wrinkling and several edge tears. The text pages are clean and bright. Included are: The Nautilusw - There were Two, Wide Screen - Televisions New Dimension by Madison Cawein, After the Gap - What? By U. S. Senator John F. Kennedy, The United States ELectronics Industry's Contribution to National Defense by Major General Frank E. Stoner, Industry Supports Defense by Signal Staff, Face the Facts by Sol. C. Bennett, T...
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Nuclear Facility Threat Analysis and Tactical Response Procedures

By: Cadwell, Jerry J. (J.D.)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Springfield, IL, Charles C. Thomas Publisher: 1983

Seller ID: A34058

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

B&W Photographs; This book is in Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean with the exception of some light toning to the spine and edges of the front and rear panels. "Security recommendations that address the potential threat of sabotage of a nuclear facility or attempted theft of special nuclear material are provided in this monograph. Model procedures for initial security reactions, threat analysis of alarms, and mobilization and tactical response to a...
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Recommended Family Plan (Civil Defense Leaflet)

By: City and County Of San Francisco Disaster Council and Corps

Price: $25.00

Publisher: San Francisco, CA, City and County of San Francisco, Disaster Council and Corps: 1962

Seller ID: A36781

Binding: Ephemera

Condition: Very Good+

B&W Illustrations; One sheet, folded in half vertically (to make up four pages of text). The item is in Very Good+ condition. This informational sheet, sent out under the auspices of the Disaster Council and Corps and the mayor George Christopher, offers an update on how to react to different civil emergencies, including atomic bombs, earthquakes , explosions and fire. This particular item was published / revised just one month before the Cuban Missile Crisis. " The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis of 1962 (Spanish: Crisis de Octubre) , the Caribbean Crisis or the Mis...
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How Russia Stole America's Atomic Secrets

By: Considine, Bob

Price: $30.00

Publisher: International News Service: 1951

Seller ID: A34038

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good+

This is a trade sized paperback book with heavy cardstock covers and a stapled spine. The book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The spine and rear spine joint of the book cover have noticeable toning. The text pages are clean and bright. "Robert Bernard Considine, known as Bob Considine (November 4, 1906 September 25, 1975) , was an American journalist, author, and commentator. He is best known as the co-author of Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo and The Babe Ruth Story. "With Ted W. Lawson, Considine authored Thirty Seconds over Tokyo, an account of Lt. Col. ...
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Two Minutes Till Midnight

By: Davis, Elmer

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Indianapolis, IN, Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc.: 1955

Seller ID: A32145

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping to the spine ends of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. There is some faded pencil marking to the front endpaper. The dust jacket has a couple of small edge nicks and tears along with one tiny triangular chip to the bottom spine end. There is some light rubbing to the spine and flap joints. "Two Minutes till Midnight is a companion piece to But We Were Born Free. In the earlier book Elmer Davis bade us live and fi...
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Nuclear Power Development and Management of a Technology

By: Dawson, Frank G.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Seattle, WA, University of Washington Press: 1976

Seller ID: A40380

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

Graphs; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. The text pages are generally clean and bright. The dust jacket has several edge tears, chips and wrinkles, along with some generalized ground-in dirt. Chapters include: Early Development and Management of the Atom, Ten Years of Rapid Development, 1955-64, Regulation of Nuclear Power, and more.
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In Time Of Emergency A Citizen's Handbook on Nuclear Attack ...natural Disasters

By: Department Of Defense / Office Of Civil Defense

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Washington D. C., Department of Defense / Office of Civil Defense: 1968

Seller ID: A33065

Binding: Booklet

Condition: Very Good+

Monochrome; This is a trade sized booklet with cardstock covers and a stapled spine. The booklet was issued without a dust jacket. This booklet is in Very Good+ condition. There is some light edge wear and rubbing to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The front edge of the booklet has some toning and spotting. The text pages are clean and bright. "A major emergency affecting a large number of people may occur anytime and anywhere. It may be a peacetime disaster such as a flood, tornado, firer, hurricane, blizzard, or earthquake. It could be an enemy nuclear attack on the United...
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Nuclear Weapons Employment (Pam 39-1)

By: Department Of The Army

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Washington D. C., Department of the Army: 1959

Seller ID: A40618

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good-

B&W Illustrations; This is an oversized paperback book with cardstock covers, three hole punch, and a glued binding. The book is in Very Good- condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The covers have spots of ground-in dirt and spotting, several ink stamps (property of Litton Scientific Laboratory) , some creasing and one inked addition problem on the rear cover. The text pages are clean and bright. The rear inside cover has a pocket with two acetate "Weapon Selectors" in Very Good condition. "Between 1940 and 1996, the U. S. Government spent at least $9.49 trillion in prese...
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J. Robert Oppenheimer Shatterer of Worlds

By: Goodchild, Peter

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London, England, British Broadcasting Corp.: 1980

Seller ID: 29829

ISBN: 0563177810

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

B&W Photographs; This book is in Fine condition and has a Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "This book is the history of an extraordinary man, the history of the development of the first nuclear weapon, and the history of a decade of accusation. Peter Goodchild has used extensive documentation, now available for the first time under the Freedom of Information Act, and many interviews with Oppenheimer's surviving friends and colleagues - and enemies as well - to narrate t...
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Nucleonics Magazine September 1952

By: Henney, Keith (editor)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, McGraw Hill Publication: 1952

Seller ID: A39277

Binding: Magazine

Condition: Very Good+

B&W Illustrations; This is an oversized magazine. The magazine is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The edges of the covers have some beginning edge wear and nicking. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a bit of light dusty / musty smell to the text pages. This copy includes: Basic Problems in Central-Station Nuclear Power by W. H. Zinn, Scintillation Counting Techniques by Kallman, Furst & Sidran, Delayed Radiation Effects at Hiroshima and Nagasaki by John C. Bugher, Medium Energy Nuclear Physics by Katharine Way, and much more.
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Nucleonics Magazine June 1952

By: Henney, Keith (editor)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, McGraw Hill Publication: 1952

Seller ID: A39278

Binding: Magazine

Condition: Very Good

B&W Illustrations; This is an oversized magazine. The magazine is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The edges of the covers have some beginning edge wear and nicking. There is some creasing and wear to the foredge of the front cover. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a bit of light dusty / musty smell to the text pages. This copy includes: Locating Buried Radioactive Sources by Condit & Graves, A Method for Estimating Low Levels of Radioactive Contaminants in Water by Emmons and Lauderdale, Radiosensitivity of Alkali-Halide Crystals by Friedman & Glover, ...
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Nucleonics Magazine June 1952

By: Henney, Keith (editor)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, McGraw Hill Publication: 1952

Seller ID: A39279

Binding: Magazine

Condition: Very Good-

B&W Illustrations; This is an oversized magazine. The magazine is in Very Good- condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The edges of the covers have some beginning edge wear and nicking. There is a tear to the bottom rear spine joint of the book cover, along with some foxing and discoloration to the same area. The spine of the magazine has several chips missing, mostly to the bottom spine end. There is some creasing and wear to the foredge of the front cover. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a bit of light dusty / musty smell to the text pages. This copy includes: Joint Co...
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Nucleonics Magazine July 1952

By: Henney, Keith (editor)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, McGraw Hill Publication: 1952

Seller ID: A39280

Binding: Magazine

Condition: Very Good

B&W Illustrations; This is an oversized magazine. The magazine is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The edges of the covers have some beginning edge wear and nicking. There is a small tear to the bottom front spine joint of the cover, and some lightish creasing to the bottom front corner. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a bit of light dusty / musty smell to the text pages. This copy includes: Methods of Producing Radioiron by Rayburn Dunn, Luminescence of Organic Substances by E. J. Bowen, Pitting of Aluminum in a Heavy-Water Reactor, Chemical Dosimetry...
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The Atom Bomb Spies

By: Hyde, H. Montgomery

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Don Mills, Ont, Canada, Nelson Canada: 1980

Seller ID: A33955

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

B&W Photographs; This book is in Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has some light ground-in dirt and a spot of blue ink on the rear cover. "In 1945, Igor Gouzenko, a Russian cipher clerk working in the miliary intelligence branch of the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa, defected to the West. He took with him over one hundred top secret documents that revealed a spy network in North America, a network that had supplied the Soviet Union with the secrets of the atom bomb....
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Space Science Reading for an Age of Change

By: Lapp, Ralph E.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, American Library Association: 1962

Seller ID: A35199

Binding: Stapled wraps

Condition: Very Good+

This is a small format booklet with cardstock covers and a stapled spine. The booklet is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The booklet covers have some light strips of toning to the foredges. The text pages are clean and bright. "He was born in Buffalo, New York, and attended the University of Chicago. After completing his graduate studies at the University he joined the Manhattan Project; and became the assistant Director of the Metallurgical Laboratory. He then accepted a position with the War department General Staff as a scientific advisor on atomic energy. ...
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Hiroshima in America Fifty Years of Denial

By: Lifton, Robert Jay and Greg Mitchell

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons / Grosset Putnam: 1995

Seller ID: 31955

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

This book is in Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean with the exception of some tiny faults to the laminate on the front panel along with a couple of small spots of rubbing to the top spine end. "You cannot understand the twentieth century without Hiroshima. So begins one of the most important and original books written about America's use of the atomic bomb against Japan at the end of World War II. The event evoked little debate at the time, an...
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Time Bomb: Fermi, Heisenberg, And The Race For The Atomic Bomb The Race Between Two Geniuses to create the One Weapon that will Decide World War II

By: MacPherson, Malcolm C.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, E. P. Dutton: 1986

Seller ID: A33957

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

B&W Photographs; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners of the book cover. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has some light edge wear and rubbing to the spine ends and corners, and a small nick with wrinkling to the top spine end. "From the start of the century the race was on: Who, applying the theories of a new physics, would be the first to split the atom and create new matter from the incredible ...
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Category: Atomic / Nuclear