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Author
Series
Jerry Mitchell novels volume 5
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
365 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"India and Pakistan are stalemated in a war that India launched to 'remove the threat of terrorism, once and for all.' But India's early successes have stalled, and with the coming spring, the tide may turn against them. A small but powerful group of Indian senior military officers and civilian security officials, without the knowledge of the rest of the Indian government, have decided to strike at China, Pakistan's backer and India's recent enemy...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Description
Narrates the story of the postwar superpower arms race that culminated in the Reagan-Gorbachev era when the U.S. and Soviet Union came all too close to nuclear war, chronicling the nuclear policies on both sides and their implications for global security.
Author
Series
Paul Madriani novels volume 12
Pub. Date
c2011
Formats
Description
While in Paris to find a former NASA employee whose name has been found on papers left in his nemesis's apartment, Paul Madriani stumbles upon a plot to harness the destructive forces of nature using stolen technology.
Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"When the United States and the Soviet Union simultaneously set off nuclear explosions, the London Daily Express begins to report on bizarre weather changes around the world. But when the reporters dig deeper, they discover that the blasts have knocked Earth off its axis and sent it hurtling towards the sun. Now, as scorching heat and devastating floods plague the planet, cities explode in chaos and mankind is left with one last hope: a final massive...
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Noted philosopher Noam Chomsky, world-renowned physician, author, and activist Helen Caldecott, and founder of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation David Krieger come together through inerwoven interviews to create a narrative that addresses one of the most urgent needs of our planet: the modern dangers of nuclear weapons and the threat of nuclear terrorism in the world today. Includes archival footoage of presidents Barack Obama, John Kennedy, Dwight...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
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Description
On orders from Osama Bin Laden, Al Qaeda operative Amer al Zaroor directs the theft of a nuclear weapon from the Pakistani military, and then transports it toward its intended target, Israel. Meanwhile Bin Laden announces to the world that he will make a major terrorist strike on the tenth anniversary of 9/11. Deep inside Washington, Brooke Chandler, a CIA operative whose cover was blown, thinks he knows how the bomb is being moved and how to find...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
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Description
"The latest in the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Dewey Andreas series. North Korea, increasingly isolated from most of the rest of the world, is led by an absolute dictator and a madman with a major goal--he's determined to launch a nuclear attack on the United States. While they have built, and continue to successfully test nuclear bombs, North Korea has yet to develop a ballistic missile with the range necessary to attack America. But...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
372 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Description
Fred Kaplan takes us into the White House Situation Room, the Joint Chiefs of Staffs “Tank” in the Pentagon, and the vast chambers of Strategic Command to bring us the untold storiesbased on exclusive interviews and previously classified documentsof how Americas presidents and generals have thought about, threatened, broached, and just barely avoided nuclear war from the dawn of the atomic age until today. Kaplans historical research and deep...
Author
Publisher
Ecco Press
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
387 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"In a tiny shack in the largest township in South Africa, Nombeko Mayeki is born. Put to work at five years old and orphaned at ten, she quickly learns that the world expects nothing more from her than to die young, be it from drugs, alcohol, or just plain despair. But Nombeko has grander plans. She learns to read and write, and at just fifteen, using her cunning and fearlessness, she makes it out of Soweto with millions of smuggled diamonds in her...
13) Fail safe
Series
Criterion collection volume 1011
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Formats
Description
The unnerving procedural thriller painstakingly details an all-too-plausible nightmare scenario in which a mechanical failure jams the United States military's chain of command and sends the country hurtling toward nuclear war with the Soviet Union.
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (85 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In post-Soviet Russia, nothing is as it seems. When members of the Russian Mafia pose as KGB agents to steal a nuclear missile, the CIA calls on martial arts master Jackie Chan to stop them. Jackie treks the globe--from the icy glaciers of the Ukraine to the pristine beaches of Australia--traveling by submarines, stilts and snowboards, encountering man-eating sharks and heartstopping beauties.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009], c1998
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (55 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This DVD takes a look at three military threats that could have changed the course of World War II: Germany's atomic bomb project, the Japanese mini-subs, and the infamous Japanese kamikaze squads.
17) The peacemaker
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a nuclear bomb goes missing in the former Soviet Union, a diplomat and a Special Forces Colonel join forces to avert disaster.
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Series
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"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...
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Using rare archival footage and remarkable interviews with witnesses, Pilger's film discloses America's secret history in the region, the destruction wrought by the equivalent of one Hiroshima attack every day for twelve years, and the top secret project that made guinea pigs of the population of the Marshall Islands.
20) Fires of war
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
383 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
When, after years of tough negotiations, North Korea's Kim Jong Il suddenly agrees to surrender all of his nuclear weapons, a suspicious U.S. government sends the First Team in to stop a mysterious conspiracy plotting a full-scale nuclear attack.
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