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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The expediter	David Hagberg	"It's the most extraordinary request McGarvey has ever received. He enters a dangerous international shadow world where almost nothing is as it seems. The puzzles lead him to a mysterious Russian ex-…	OL14927230W
Red Alert	Peter Bryant	It was the worst of all possible worst-case scenarios in the Cold War - an American general loses his reason and orders a full-scale nuclear attack on the U.S.S.R.From that premise, Peter George's 19…	OL15187470W
Prometheus's child	Harold Coyle	When a military training mission in Chad is transformed into a high-stakes game of nuclear one-upmanship, the men and women of Strategic Solutions, Inc., a private paramilitary company, are called in…	OL16070405W
Bomboozled [trademark symbol]	Susan Roy	176 p. : 27 cm	OL16175452W
Brink of chaos	Tim F. LaHaye	Joshua Jordan remains in Israel, out of reach of U.S. authorities and their trumped-up charges against him. His wife, Abigail, continues to lead the Roundtable to prove his innocence. Following Russi…	OL17753669W
The Doomsday Machine	Daniel Ellsberg	From the legendary whistle-blower who revealed the Pentagon Papers, an eyewitness exposé of the dangers of America's Top Secret, seventy-year-long nuclear policy that continues to this day. Here, …	OL17838533W
Hiroshima, Nagasaki	Paul Ham	In this harrowing history of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, Paul Ham argues against the use of nuclear weapons, drawing on extensive research and hundreds of interviews to prove that the bombin…	OL19663002W
The atomic age	Morton Grodzins,Eugene Rabinowitch	Contains articles on Hiroshima, international control of atomic energy, atomic weapons and foreign policy, arms control, nuclear fallout, test bans, Soviet espionage, loyalty and security, the Pugwas…	OL19665049W
Level 7	Mordecai Roshwald	A chillingly calm first person account of Armageddon, from the point of view of a low-level military functionary. This account should make you think, and should terrify you.	OL1978137W
Raven Rock	Garrett M. Graff	"The eye-opening truth about the government's secret plans to survive a catastrophic attack on US soil--even if the rest of us die--a roadmap that spans from the dawn of the nuclear age to today"--Pr…	OL20058439W
Dr. Bloodmoney	Philip K. Dick	Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb is a 1965 science fiction novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1965.[1] Dick wrote th…	OL2172502W
A Canticle for Leibowitz	Walter M. Miller Jr.	Highly unusual After the Holocaust novel. In the far future, 20th century texts are preserved in a monastery, as "sacred books". The monks preserve for centuries what little science there is, and …	OL2626638W
Hiroshima	John Richard Hersey	Describes the effect of the bombing of Hiroshima on six survivors of the atomic blast.	OL2700123W
Miedziana bransoleta	Jeffery Deaver	Middleton is drawn into an international terror plot that threatens to send India and Pakistan into full-scale nuclear war.	OL27304260W
Children of the dust	Louise Lawrence	After a nuclear war devastates the earth, a small band of people struggles for survival in a new world where children are born with strange mutations.	OL2939678W
Danger and Survival	McGeorge Bundy	An informed and informative appreciation of nuclear weapons as instruments of diplomatic policy. A special assistant for national security affairs in both the JFK and LBJ administrations who now teac…	OL3554370W
Space wars	Willliam Scott,Michael Coumatos,William Birnes,Scott, Bill	Michael J. Coumatos is a former U.S. Navy test pilot, ship's captain, and commodore; U.S. Space Command director of wargaming; and a government counterterrorism advisor. William Scott is a retired bu…	OL4080485W
Think about nuclear arms control	Richard Smoke	Discusses the nuclear arms race, its historical background, technological ramifications, and impact on contemporary life.	OL4303443W
Darkness and Dawn	Andre Norton	Centuries after civilization destroyed itself in a final war, Fors is driven from his clan for the crime of being a mutant. Having nothing to lose, Fors and his feline companion trek north towards in…	OL473241W
Tidal rip	Joe Buff	An electrifying new voice in military fiction, Joe Buff has written a riveting and utterly realistic submarine adventure. Jeffrey Fuller is going back to war. Commander Fuller has distinguished himse…	OL5733910W