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Author
Publisher
Bonneville Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
The Russians have learned that Einstein has left a trunk full of formulas for making a nuclear bomb that is sixty times more powerful than anything that exists today. His great-granddaughter Yohaba, a brilliant physicist in her own right, and an ex-spy, Rulon Hurt, who was recently fired, are the only ones who can stop them from stealing it.
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Brandon Vale is a career thief---the best there is. Or at least he was before he was thrown in prison for a jewel heist gone bad. And even more embarrassing, he had nothing to do with it. His time inside is going fairly quietly until the night he's broken out against his will by Richard Scanlon, the now-retired FBI agent who framed him in the first place. Scanlon, who still has ties to the United States intelligence community, has discovered that...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Along the Afghanistan border, a CIA agent meets secretly with a distraught Arab girl. She passes him a coded message before killing herself. But before the message can be deciphered, the world spins toward war: Within hours, the president of Pakistan is assassinated, and the country's nuclear warheads go missing. Al Qaeda streams into northern Pakistan. Israel puts her combat forces on hair-trigger alert.
CIA paramilitary agent Peter Zembeic is given...
4) Exit plan
Author
Series
Jerry Mitchell novels volume 3
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Jerry Mitchell is on exercises off the coast of Pakistan when his submarine, the USS Michigan, is ordered to a rendezvous off the Iranian coast. Once there, disembarked SEALs--experts in seaborne commando operations--are to extract two Iranian nationals who have sensitive information on Iran's nuclear weapons program.
5) Cold shot
Author
Series
Publisher
Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
The USS Vicksburg is returning home when the crew comes upon a lifeboat bearing a dead Somali pirate who shows signs of torture. Questions immediately arise: Who is this man, and which ship did he come from? Who tortured him? Soon Red Cell analysts Kyra Stryker and Jonathan Burke have traced the dead man back to an Iranian ship currently bound for Venezuela - and the ship appears to have dangerous, radioactive cargo on board. The Iranians' plan quickly...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A thrilling narrative of scientific triumph-and the unimaginable, world-ending peril it brought us. Fearing that the Germans would be the first to weaponize the atom, the United States marshaled brilliant minds and seemingly inexhaustible bodies to find a way to create a nuclear chain reaction with unimaginable explosive power. It would begin with plutonium, the first element ever manufactured by humans. In a matter of months, a city designed to...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
[Rental ed.]
Language
English
Description
John McClane, the heroic New York cop with a knack for being in the wrong place at the right time, is back, and his latest predicament takes him all the way to Russia to track down his estranged son, Jack, who has been imprisoned in Moscow. But the mission takes a deadly turn as father and son must join forces to thwart a nuclear weapons heist that could trigger World War III.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company, Inc
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
From the recipient of the 1997 Whiting Award.
Feeling disconnected from the wildly beautiful desert that she has known intimately for twenty years, award-winning writer Ellen Meloy embarks on a search for home that is historical, scientific, and spiritual. Her "Map of the Known Universe," devised to guide her quest, reveals extraordinary details of a physical link between the atomic age and her home on Utah's San Juan River. The Map grows to include...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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...
10) Broken arrow
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
[Full frame].
Language
English
Description
Tom believes the Apaches are treated unfairly. After befriending their leader Cochise and arranging a truce, he is called upon by an Army General to negotiate a government peace treaty, but later is the target of a renegade ambush.
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Sidelined after a colleague's blunder, CIA agent Brooke Chandler envisions a way to halt an Al Qaeda plot to set off a massive nuclear explosion and begins a race against time that returns him to Lebanon, where nothing is quite as it seems.
13) Countdown 1945: the extraordinary story of the atomic bomb and the 116 days that changed the world
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
A Fox News Sunday anchor and a Pulitzer Prize-winning AP investigative journalist present a behind-the-scenes account of the secret meetings, global events, leadership decisions, and civilian realities that led to the Hiroshima bombing.
14) Fallout
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
[2018].
Edition
[First edition?]
Language
English
Description
"Albert Einstein once said that ""politics is more difficult than physics."" He was right: this story shows how politicians fatally failed to understand the nature of atomic science and, in so doing, exposed the world needlessly to great danger, a danger that is still very much with us."--
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