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Bird, Kai. Sherwin, Martin J.
Pub Date:
2006
Electronic Access:
Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0613/2006274248.html Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0634/2006274248-b.html Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0634/2006274248-d.html Sample text http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0642/2006274248-s.html
Call No.
OPPENHEIMER
Format
Books
ISBN
9780375726262
Title
Author
Joseph, Willie M.
Format
eBook
Title
Author
Nolan, Christopher, 1970- film producer, filmmaker, screenwriter, film director. Thomas, Emma (Motion picture producer), film producer. Roven, Charles, film producer. Murphy, Cillian, 1976- actor. Blunt, Emily, actor.
Pub Date:
2023
Call No.
OPP
Format
Video disc
Summary
The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.
UPC
191329253113
Title
Author
Sherwin, Martin J., author.
Pub Date:
2020
Call No.
972.9106 SHE
Format
Books
Summary
"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer comes the first effort to set the Cuban Missile Crisis, with its potential for nuclear holocaust, in a wider historical narrative of the Cold War--how such a crisis arose, and why at the very last possible moment it didn't happen. In this groundbreaking look at the Cuban Missile Crisis, Martin Sherwin not only gives us a riveting sometimes hour-by-hour explanation of the crisis itself, but also explores the origins, scope, and consequences of the evolving place of nuclear weapons in the post WWII world. Mining new sources and materials, and going far beyond the scope of earlier works on this critical face-off between the United States and the Soviet Union--triggered when Khruschev began installing missiles in Cuba at Castro's behest--Sherwin shows how this volatile event was an integral part of the wider Cold War and was a consequence of nuclear arms. Gambling with Armageddon looks in particular at the original debate in the Truman Administration about using the Atomic Bomb; the way in which President Eisenhower relied on the threat of massive retaliation to project U.S. power in the early Cold War era; and how President Kennedy, though unprepared to deal with the Bay of Pigs debacle, came of age during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Here too is a clarifying picture of what was going on in Khruschev's Soviet Union. Martin Sherwin has spent his career in the study of nuclear weapons and how they have shaped our world--Gambling with Armegeddon is an outstanding capstone to his work thus far"--
ISBN
9780307266880
Author
Stone, Oliver. Kuznick, Peter J.
Pub Date:
2012
Electronic Access:
Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1205/2011051642-b.html Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1205/2011051642-d.html
Call No.
973.91 STO
Format
Books
ISBN
9781451613513 9781451616446
Author
Bird, Kai.
Pub Date:
2010
Call No.
956.054 BIR
Format
Books
Summary
Pulitzer Prize-winner Kai Bird's vivid memoir of an American childhood spent in the midst of the Arab-Israeli conflict in Jerusalem and Saudi Arabia.
ISBN
9781416544401 9781416544418
Author
Greenspan, Nancy Thorndike, author.
Pub Date:
2020
Call No.
FUCHS
Format
Books
Summary
"The gripping biography of a notorious Cold War villain--the German-born British scientist who handed the Soviets top-secret American plans for the plutonium bomb--showing a man torn between conventional loyalties and a sense of obligation to a greater good"--
ISBN
9780593083390
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