Tag: Bomb

Free Download Philip G. Schrag, "Listening For The Bomb: A Study In Nuclear Arms Control Verification Policy"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0813377021, 0367012642, 0367162512 | EPUB | pages: 137 | 0.2 mb
Graham Allison’s book Essence of Decision changed the way in which academic analysts think about how governments make major foreign and defense policy decisions.1 Before Allison’s book appeared in 1971, even the leading writers on foreign policy tended to describe and explain governmental decisions almost exclusively as if governments were rational human beings making carefully considered choices among available options. This book applies the Allisonian framework to the response of the United States government to a private arms control initiative undertaken in 1986 by the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental organization.

Free Download James Marsh, "A 1940s Childhood: From Bomb Sites to Children’s Hour"
English | ISBN: 0752499505 | 2014 | 208 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
Do you remember collecting shrapnel and listening to Children’s Hour? Carrying gas masks or sharing your school with evacuees from the city? The 1940s was a decade of great challenge for everyone who lived through it. The hardships and fear created by a world war were immense. Britain’s towns and cities were being bombed on an almost nightly basis, and many children faced the trauma of being parted from their parents and sent away to the country to live with complete strangers. For just over half of this decade the war continued, meaning food and clothing shortages became a way of life. But through it all, and afterwards, the simplicity of kids shone. From collecting bits of shot-down German aircraft to playing in bomb-strewn streets, kids made their own fun. Then there was the joy of the second half of the 1940s, when fathers came home and the magic of ‘normal life’ returned.

Free Download Itty Abraham, "South Asian Cultures of the Bomb: Atomic Publics and the State in India and Pakistan"
English | 2009 | pages: 235 | ISBN: 0253220327 | PDF | 3,1 mb
Since their founding as independent nations, nuclear issues have been key elements of nationalism and the public sphere in both India and Pakistan. Yet the relationship between nuclear arms and civil society in the region is seldom taken into account in conventional security studies. These original and provocative essays examine the political and ideological components of national drives to possess and test nuclear weapons. Equal coverage for comparable issues in each country frames the volume as a genuine dialogue across this contested boundary.

Free Download Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939-1956 by David Holloway
English | March 27th, 1996 | ISBN: 0300066643 | 480 pages | True EPUB | 7.07 MB
The classic and "utterly engrossing" study of Stalin’s pursuit of a nuclear bomb during the Cold War by the renowned political scientist and historian (Foreign Affairs).

Free Download Nightstalkers: The Wright Project and the 868th Bomb Squadron in World War II by Richard Phillip Lawless
English | February 22, 2023 | ISBN: 1636242057 | 432 pages | EPUB | 20 Mb
"Lawless’ engaging and descriptive approach takes the reader into the Pacific war and offers a front-row seat to the exploits of the Wright Project and their highly innovative technology." ― War History Network

Free Download Svenja Schöneich, "Living on a Time Bomb: Local Negotiations of Oil Extraction in a Mexican Community "
English | ISBN: 1800736568 | 2022 | 256 pages | PDF | 39 MB
Providing a holistic understanding of extensive oil extraction in rural Mexico, this book focuses on a campesino community, where oil extraction is deeply inscribed into the daily lives of the community members. The book shows how oil shapes the space where it is extracted in every aspect and produces multiple uncertainties. The community members express these uncertainties using the metaphor of the time bomb. The book shows how they find ways to "live off the time bomb" by using mechanisms of short-term coping and long-term adaptation and thus, developing the capability to determine their lives despite the ever-changing challenges.

Free Download The Race for the Atomic Bomb: Scientists, Spies and Saboteurs – The Allies’ and Hitler’s Battle for the Ultimate Weapon by Norman Ridley
English | April 6, 2023 | ISBN: 1399040324 | 320 pages | EPUB | 8.38 Mb
The full story of the various warring nations’ race to be the first to develop the atomic bomb.

Free Download Survive the Bomb: The Radioactive Citizen’s Guide to Nuclear Survival by Eric G. Swedin
English | May 29, 2011 | ISBN: 0760340315 | 192 pages | MOBI | 16 Mb
Attention, citizens and fellow travelers of the Cold War: Survive the Bomb is your family’s ultimate fallout shelter companion. Keep this book at the ready next to the emergency drinking water and vacuum-packed canned meats and vegetables for that moment when the saber-rattling between the world’s superpowers turns Atomic.

Free Download Kenneth Hubbard – Dropping Britain’s First H-Bomb: The Story of Operation Grapple 1957/58
Pen & Sword | 2008 | ISBN: 1844157474 | English | 216 pages | PDF | 79.66 MB
On 15 May 1957 Vickers Valiant V-Bomber X.D.818 under the command of Wg. Cdr. Kenneth Hubbard, O.C. 49 Squadron R.A.F., dropped Britain’s first live thermonuclear bomb. The success of Operation Grapple broadcast to the world that the UK had the resolve and the capability to protect her own democracy and that of her Commonwealth. It was a major breakthrough that ensured Britain maintained her place in the most senior influential positions of the United Nations and other corridors of world power, and in the ensuing years provide Britain’s deterrent throughout the decades of the Cold War.

Free Download Polostan (Bomb Light, Book 1) by Neal Stephenson
English | 26 Sept. 2024 | ISBN: 0008262594 | True EPUB | 320 pages | 1.7 MB
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Termination Shock and Cryptonomicon, the first installment in a monumental new trilogy―an expansive historical epic of intrigue and international espionage, presaging the dawn of the Atomic Age.