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In 1995, George Paxton, an American tombstone carver, wants to purchase a suit that will save its wearer from nuclear holocaust, and when he finally buys it, he survives, only to be saved by an alien race from Antarctica and put on trial with six other survivors for his failure to stop the nuclear arms race.

"Bomb meets Code Girls in this nonfiction narrative about the little-known female scientists who were critical to the invention of the atomic bomb during World War II. They were leaning over the edge of the unknown and afraid of what they would discover there--meet the World War II female scientists who worked in the secret sites of the Manhattan Project. Recruited not only from labs and universities from across the United States but also from countries...

Through the release of Freedom of Information documents, including a sailor's journal, details of the "Fuji Jiken" nuclear weapon incident are unveiled within The Siren Sea: In 1977, two sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Midway entertain the idea of how to get a nuclear weapon past security -- as the system is set up to keep someone from getting in, not out. However, their game turns serious after several traumatizing mishaps, and they commit...

An award-winning writer embarks on a search for home that is historical, scientific, and spiritual as she reveals the physical link between the atomic age and her property on Utah's San Juan River.

When an exiled Iranian scientist is assassinated in Washington, DC, the former FBI counterintelligence agent and ex-SEAL are pulled back into the world of clandestine ops—and the fate of the entire East Coast is at stake. Joining ranks with a heralded Mossad agent, Mayberry and Garrett pursue a skilled international killer hired to murder a legendary Israeli spymaster. Their pursuit draws them into an international conspiracy led by a power-hungry...

"Hiroshima. Nagasaki. Mercury, Nevada? The latter was the site for the testing of 928 large-scale nuclear weapons from 1951 to 1992." --container.

Don't miss this thrilling book in the series based on the award-winning television show The X-Files! Dr. Gregory, a renowned nuclear weapons researcher, is not only dead-he's been charred to a radioactive cinder. Since this is a death on federal property, FBI agents Mulder and Scully are hastily called in. As agents who specialize in unexplained phenomena, they are the investigators of the X-Files, strange and inexplicable cases-mysteries the FBI...

When a nuclear bomb that was smuggled into Washington, D.C. at the height of the Cold War falls into the hands of Chechen rebels, disgraced Deputy U.S. Marshal Wyatt Conway is called because of his past friendship with one of the terrorists.

"A riveting, chilling tale of how a group of ragtag activists infiltrated one of the most secure nuclear weapons sites in the United States, told alongside a broader history of America's nuclear stewardship, from the early stages of the Manhattan Project to our country's never-ending investment in nuclear weaponry. On Saturday, July 28, 2012, three senior citizens broke into one of the most secure nuclear weapons facilities in the world. An eighty-two-year-old...

Briefly discusses research, the nuclear age, the hydrogen bomb, disarmament, and peaceful uses of nuclear energy.