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21) Iranium
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
"Since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, the Iranian regime has been following the principles installed by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Iran's citizens and the West have been held hostage as the Iranian leadership attempts to spread the revolution beyond Iran's borders. Now, the world's largest state-sponsor of terror and a brutal violator of human rights stands on the threshold of acquiring nuclear weapons. Utilizing rare footage, archived news reports,...
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Pub. Date
2021
Description
"Iran's Perilous Pursuit of Nuclear Weapons chronicles the Islamic Republic of Iran's efforts to acquire nuclear weapons. It started slowly, building to a crash nuclear weapons program in the early 2000s to manufacture five nuclear weapons and the means to produce many more. Under international pressure and fearful of military attack, the program was driven to downsize and deeper security. Today, Iran does not appear to have a program focused on the...
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
A team of U.S. Navy SEALs is given a mission to destroy a North Korean missle site in order to avoid a possible nuclear strike. The mission is quickly aborted, leaving the four soldiers in enemy territory. In order for the four to survive, they must defeat the North Korean forces that threaten their lives, their allies and the entire free world.
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Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"The definitive book on Obama's historic nuclear deal with Iran from the author of the Foreign Affairs Best Book on the Middle East in 2012. This timely book focuses on President Obama's deeply considered strategy toward Iran's nuclear program and reveals how the historic agreement of 2015 broke the persistent stalemate in negotiations that had blocked earlier efforts. The deal accomplished two major feats in one stroke: it averted the threat of war...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"The justification for the atomic bomb was simple: it would defeat Hitler and end the Second World War faster, saving lives. The reality was different. [This book] dismantles the conventional story of why the atom bomb was built. Peter Watson has found new documents showing that long before the Allied bomb was operational, it was clear that Germany had no atomic weapons of its own and was not likely to. The British knew this, but didn't share their...
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
When the United States became the first country to use an atomic weapon when it dropped the atomic bombs on Japan in 1945. Not long after, other countries began developing atomic bombs. Today, nuclear power is used as an energy source, but the threat of nuclear warfare lingers. How the Bomb Changed Everything explores the complicated legacy of the first atomic bombs.
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"General David Petraeus, who commanded the US-led coalitions in both Iraq, during the Surge, and Afghanistan and former CIA director, and the prize-winning historian Andrew Roberts, explore over 70 years of conflict, drawing significant lessons and insights from their fresh analysis of the past. Drawing on their different perspectives and areas of expertise, Petraeus and Roberts show how often critical mistakes have been repeated time and again, and...
Series
Bond 50 volume disc 15
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
As Bond works to rescue an abducted Russian officer who had defected to the West, he must unravel a complex weapons scheme.
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Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"The never-before-told inside story of how Israel stopped Syria from becoming a global nuclear nightmare--and its far-reaching implications On September 6, 2007, shortly after midnight, Israeli fighters advanced on Deir ez-Zour in Syria. Israel often flew into Syria as a warning to President Bashar al-Assad. But this time, there was no warning and no explanation. This was a covert operation, with one goal: to destroy a nuclear reactor being built...
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
Explore the inside story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962, when the world teetered on the brink of nuclear holocaust. In the first major feature documentary on the subject, the film brings to life the three central characters; Kennedy, Castro and Khrushchev, and explores how the world's most powerful men fell into an abyss of their own making and outlines the courage and luck it took to climb out again. DVD format.