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Prompt and Utter Destruction
- Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs against Japan, Third Edition
- By: J. Samuel Walker
- Narrated by: Eric Martin
- Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 40
In this concise account of why America used atomic bombs against Japan in 1945, Walker analyzes the reasons behind President Truman's most controversial decision. In this new edition, Walker incorporates a decade of new research, mostly from Japanese archives only recently made available....
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2 out of 5 stars
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Bullshit woke end
- By Fav on 12-19-23
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61. Prompt and Utter Destruction
- Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs against Japan, Third Edition
- Narrated by: Eric Martin
- Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 05-14-19
- Language: English
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My Journey at the Nuclear Brink
- By: William Perry
- Narrated by: Kevin F Spalding
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 40
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 40
My Journey at the Nuclear Brink is a continuation of William J. Perry's efforts to keep the world safe from a nuclear catastrophe....
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5 out of 5 stars
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His journey has just begun
- By Amazon Customer on 04-18-17
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62. My Journey at the Nuclear Brink
- Narrated by: Kevin F Spalding
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 09-21-16
- Language: English
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Robert Oppenheimer: A Life from Beginning to End
- World War 2 Biographies
- By: Hourly History
- Narrated by: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
- Length: 1 hr and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
Robert Oppenheimer had a lot resting on his shoulders. During the Second World War, he was tasked with directing the development of the world’s first nuclear arsenal....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Oppenheimer in a quick 1hour listen👏🏻
- By Michael on 07-17-23
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63. Robert Oppenheimer: A Life from Beginning to End
- World War 2 Biographies
- Narrated by: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
- Length: 1 hr and 3 mins
- Release date: 01-11-23
- Language: English
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To Build a Better World
- Choices to End the Cold War and Create a Global Commonwealth
- By: Philip Zelikow, Condoleezza Rice
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 17 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 33
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 32
Two of America's leading scholar-diplomats, Philip Zelikow and Condoleezza Rice, have combed sources in several languages, interviewed leading figures, and drawn on their own firsthand experience to bring to life the choices that molded the contemporary world....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Valuable historical narrative
- By Jane G. Malkin on 04-07-22
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64. To Build a Better World
- Choices to End the Cold War and Create a Global Commonwealth
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 17 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 09-12-19
- Language: English
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Burning the Sky
- Operation Argus and the Untold Story of the Cold War Nuclear Tests in Outer Space
- By: Mark Wolverton
- Narrated by: John Lescault
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 401
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 349
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 346
As the superpowers engaged in a game of nuclear one-upmanship in the late 1950s, eccentric physicist Nicholas Christofilos brought forth an outlandish, albeit ingenious, idea to defend the US from a Soviet attack....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Extraordinary interesting history
- By Magnus Almgren on 10-23-20
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65. Burning the Sky
- Operation Argus and the Untold Story of the Cold War Nuclear Tests in Outer Space
- Narrated by: John Lescault
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 12-11-18
- Language: English
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Oppenheimer
- The Man Who Developed the Atomic Bomb, Ignited the Nuclear Age, and Grappled With the Weight of His Creation
- By: Hourglass History, Julian Pembroke
- Narrated by: Andrew Robert Wilcox
- Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 17
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 17
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Story4 out of 5 stars 17
Stand witness to the conception of the deadliest weapon in human history, amidst the clandestine walls of Los Alamos. Delve into the mind that revolutionized the world....
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1 out of 5 stars
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Awful book, 30 minutes of content repeated in different ways for 3 hours
- By Phil on 08-08-24
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66. Oppenheimer
- The Man Who Developed the Atomic Bomb, Ignited the Nuclear Age, and Grappled With the Weight of His Creation
- Narrated by: Andrew Robert Wilcox
- Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 08-16-23
- Language: English
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The Dead Hand
- The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy
- By: David E. Hoffman
- Narrated by: Bob Walter
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 32
The Dead Hand is the suspense-filled story of the people who sought to brake the speeding locomotive of the arms race, then rushed to secure the nuclear and biological weapons left behind by the collapse of the Soviet Union - a dangerous legacy that haunts us even today....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent and terrifying.
- By Amazon Customer on 04-17-14
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67. The Dead Hand
- The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy
- Narrated by: Bob Walter
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 09-22-09
- Language: English
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First into Nagasaki
- By: George Weller
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 93
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 43
On September 6, 1945, less than a month after the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, George Weller became the first free Westerner to enter the devastated city....
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5 out of 5 stars
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First Into Nagasaki
- By Harold on 02-15-07
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68. First into Nagasaki
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 12-21-06
- Language: English
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El secreto de la bomba atómica española
- By: Francisco Gámez Balcázar
- Narrated by: Javier Gauna
- Length: 19 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0 out of 5 stars 0
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Performance0 out of 5 stars 0
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Pocas actividades vinculadas al poder se hallan tan sometidas a controversia como la energía nuclear. Este libro brinda datos contrastados...
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69. El secreto de la bomba atómica española
- Narrated by: Javier Gauna
- Length: 19 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 01-10-23
- Language: Spanish
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The First Atomic Bomb
- The Trinity Site in New Mexico
- By: Janet Farrell Brodie
- Narrated by: Linda Jones
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance2.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2
On July 16, 1945, just weeks before the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that brought about the surrender of Japan and the end of WWII, the US unleashed the world's first atomic bomb at the Trinity testing site located in the remote Tularosa Valley in New Mexico....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Well-researched but did not care for narration
- By chkfstrd on 08-17-24
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70. The First Atomic Bomb
- The Trinity Site in New Mexico
- Narrated by: Linda Jones
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 08-15-23
- Language: English
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Made in Hanford
- By: Hill Williams
- Narrated by: Sean Schroeder
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 44
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 42
Former Seattle Times science writer Hill Williams traces the amazing, tragic story - from the dawn of nuclear science to Cold War testing in the Marshall Islands....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Horrible Narration
- By M. Miles on 03-12-15
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71. Made in Hanford
- Narrated by: Sean Schroeder
- Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 08-11-14
- Language: English
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Atomic Doctors
- Conscience and Complicity at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age
- By: James L. Nolan Jr.
- Narrated by: Adam Lofbomm
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 18
After his father died, James L. Nolan, Jr., took possession of a box of private family materials. To his surprise, the small secret archive contained a treasure trove of information about his grandfather's role as a doctor in the Manhattan Project....
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4 out of 5 stars
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NOT A GOOD TIME
- By Joyce Baldassarre on 03-07-22
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72. Atomic Doctors
- Conscience and Complicity at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age
- Narrated by: Adam Lofbomm
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 10-20-20
- Language: English
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The Nuclear Jihadist
- By: Douglas Frantz, Catherine Collins
- Narrated by: Bob Craig
- Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 15
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 15
The world has entered a second nuclear age. For the first time since the end of the Cold War, the threat of nuclear annihilation is on the rise....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Worth Reading for the Knowledge
- By John Gardner on 10-21-08
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73. The Nuclear Jihadist
- Narrated by: Bob Craig
- Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 12-03-07
- Language: English
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Blown to Hell
- America's Deadly Betrayal of the Marshall Islanders
- By: Walter Pincus
- Narrated by: Chris Abernathy
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 15
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 14
The most important place in American nuclear history are the Marshall Islands - an idyllic Pacific paradise that served as the staging ground for more than 60 US nuclear tests....
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5 out of 5 stars
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The devastation
- By Dorothy on 10-23-24
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74. Blown to Hell
- America's Deadly Betrayal of the Marshall Islanders
- Narrated by: Chris Abernathy
- Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 11-16-21
- Language: English
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The End of Victory
- Prevailing in the Thermonuclear Age
- By: Edward Kaplan
- Narrated by: Scott Carrico
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
The End of Victory recounts the costs of failure in nuclear war through the work of the most secret deliberative body of the National Security Council, the Net Evaluation Subcommittee (NESC)....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Dry yet Terrifying
- By A W on 04-03-23
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75. The End of Victory
- Prevailing in the Thermonuclear Age
- Narrated by: Scott Carrico
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 12-13-22
- Language: English
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The Basis of Everything
- By: Andrew Ramsey
- Narrated by: John Voce
- Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance0 out of 5 stars 0
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Before the Manhattan Project, before nuclear warfare and the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there was the twentieth century's great scientific quest to fathom the secrets of the atom. This is the unlikely story of an Antipodean friendship that changed the world forever....
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76. The Basis of Everything
- Narrated by: John Voce
- Length: 13 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 11-09-23
- Language: English
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A Nuclear Family Vacation
- Travels in the World of Atomic Weaponry
- By: Nathan Hodge, Sharon Weinberger
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 14
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Story4 out of 5 stars 13
In A Nuclear Family Vacation, husband-and-wife journalists Nathan Hodge and Sharon Weinberger hit the road to explore the secretive world of nuclear weaponry....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Nuclear weapons discussed by June Cleaver
- By NoOne on 09-22-13
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77. A Nuclear Family Vacation
- Travels in the World of Atomic Weaponry
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 03-06-13
- Language: English
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J. Robert Oppenheimer - Die Biographie
- Das Hörbuch zum Kino-Highlight im Sommer 2023
- By: Martin J. Sherwin, Kai Bird, Bernd Leineweber - Übersetzer, and others
- Narrated by: Sebastian Dunkelberg
- Length: 22 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
Das Hörbuch zum Kino-Highlight im Sommer 2023. J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967), der "Vater der Atombombe", zählt zu den...
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78. J. Robert Oppenheimer - Die Biographie
- Das Hörbuch zum Kino-Highlight im Sommer 2023
- Narrated by: Sebastian Dunkelberg
- Length: 22 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 06-29-23
- Language: German
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The Myth of the Nuclear Revolution
- Power Politics in the Atomic Age (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs)
- By: Keir A. Lieber, Daryl G. Press
- Narrated by: Gary Roelofs
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4
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Story5 out of 5 stars 4
Leading analysts have predicted for decades that nuclear weapons would help pacify international politics. But why do international relations in the nuclear age remain so competitive? Indeed, why are today's major geopolitical rivalries intensifying....
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5 out of 5 stars
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One word...Excellent!
- By Anthony J Cesaroni on 06-24-21
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79. The Myth of the Nuclear Revolution
- Power Politics in the Atomic Age (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs)
- Narrated by: Gary Roelofs
- Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 04-07-20
- Language: English
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J. Robert Oppenheimer, the Cold War, and the Atomic West
- The Oklahoma Western Biographies
- By: Jon Hunner
- Narrated by: Jim Woods
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 5
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5
Jon Hunner’s concise account of Oppenheimer’s life and the emergence of an Atomic West distills a vast literature for students and general listeners....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Reads like a novel.
- By FC on 08-31-23
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80. J. Robert Oppenheimer, the Cold War, and the Atomic West
- The Oklahoma Western Biographies
- Narrated by: Jim Woods
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 07-15-19
- Language: English
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