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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
©2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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"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 abroad, these scientists helped in -- and often initiated -- the development of the atomic bomb, taking starring roles in the Manhattan Project. In fact, their involvement was critical to its success, though many of them were not fully aware of the consequences."--...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"America lost 1.4 million citizens in the North Korean attacks of March 2020. This is the final, authorized report of the government commission charged with investigating the calamity.
"The skies over the Korean Peninsula on March 21, 2020, were clear and blue."So begins this sobering report on the findings of the Commission on the Nuclear Attacks against the United States, established by law by Congress and President Donald J. Trump to...
"The skies over the Korean Peninsula on March 21, 2020, were clear and blue."So begins this sobering report on the findings of the Commission on the Nuclear Attacks against the United States, established by law by Congress and President Donald J. Trump to...
46) The fourth war
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
From Sheehan, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic "A Bright Shining Lie," comes the never-before-told story of the nuclear arms race that changed history--and of the visionary American Air Force officer Bernard Schriever, who led the high-stakes effort with the ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missiles) program.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Agent Neil Shaw is on a mission to stop North Korean terrorists from obtaining a nuclear bomb. When the deal turns deadly, Shaw saves a beautiful facilitator and ends up framed for murder. Now a wanted man, with the mysterious facilitator by his side, and his newbie partner, he must rely on his martial arts skills and the warrior code to fight through the mean streets of Korea and find the terrorists before they detonate the bomb at the United Nations...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
From the author the classic The Wizards of Armageddon and Pulitzer Prize finalist comes the definitive history of American policy on nuclear warand Presidents actions in nuclear crisesfrom Truman to Trump. Fred Kaplan, hailed by The New York Times as “a rare combination of defense intellectual and pugnacious reporter,” takes us into the White House Situation Room, the Joint Chiefs of Staffs “Tank” in the Pentagon, and the vast chambers of...
50) The death trade
Author
Series
Sean Dillon thrillers volume 20
Language
English
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Description
An eminent Iranian scientist has made a startling breakthrough in nuclear weapons research, but he can't stand the thought of his regime owning the bomb. He would run if he could, but if he does, his family dies. He is desperate; he doesn't know what to do. It is up to Sean Dillon and the rest of the small band known as the Prime Minister's private army to think of a plan. Most particularly, it is up to their newest member, an intelligence captain...
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A "masterful" and "riveting" thriller about a female CIA agent whose extraordinary facial recognition powers lead her into the dangerous heart of the Soviet Union—and the path of a killer who shouldn’t exist (Joseph Finder, New York Times bestselling author). She never forgets a face. He never forgets his prey. It is 1990 when Melvina Donleavy arrives in Soviet Belarus on her first undercover mission with the CIA, alongside three fellow agents—none...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A group of elite commandos led by a rogue CIA operative take over a battleship to gather the nuclear arms aboard, but their job does not go as planned when they encounter the ship's cook, a former Navy SEAL; ex-Navy SEAL Casey Ryback works to free a passenger train from the hands of a mercenary army who are trying to control a weapons satellite.
54) Death to spies
Author
Series
Ian Fleming novels volume 1
Publisher
Forge Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
"Against the backdrop of the 2016 presidential election, five simultaneous murders on three continents leads a cyber sleuth to a thread revealing someone has just bought five nuclear weapons. But who and what is their target? American intelligence expert Ray Bowman is brought in to find out. With the help of a Mossad agent and a female South African intelligence officer, he races around the world to stop nuclear terror. Washington fears the bombs...
57) Thunderball
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Bond is sent to the Caribbean to battle Spectre above and below the water.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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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...
59) Strait of Hormuz
Author
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Investigating the funding of Iran's nuclear program, Marc Royce must rely on an old ally to help him uncover the truth--before it's too late"--
60) Countdown 1945: the extraordinary story of the atomic bomb and the 116 days that changed the world
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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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.
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