Doomsday Minutemen

Author : P. D. Smith
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141910321
Total Pages : 765 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doomsday Men written by P. D. Smith and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2008-09-25 with total page 765 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was the weapon to end all weapons: the doomsday device. A huge nuclear bomb so powerful that it could envelop the entire planet in a cloud of radioactive dust, and bring about instant extinction. This is the untold story of the Cold War’s most insane plan, the men behind it and how it nearly happened. It is also the history of humanity’s nightmare vision of a superweapon, showing how popular culture, from the stories of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne to films such as Planet of the Apes, Mad Max and Dr Strangelove itself have both shaped and reflected our darkest dreams.

Author : Bobby Akart
Publisher : Doomsday
ISBN 13 : 9781798290675
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doomsday Minutemen: A Post-Apocalyptic Survival Thriller written by Bobby Akart and published by Doomsday. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America faces a battle upon which the blood of tyrants and patriots will be shed.Doomsday had swept the country.Best selling author Bobby Akart once again masterfully tells a tale of a nation on the edge of societal collapse. For decades, Americans had found themselves increasingly at odds with one another - politically, socially, and culturally. In DOOMSDAY: MINUTEMEN, the Doomsday series concludes as the conspiracy reveals itself, and those responsible for leading the nation to the brink of a civil war are exposed.Will a new, unexpected leader emerge to bring the country together, or at least, to stop escalations of tensions between the two sides? Will America collapse from within before it's too late?The Second Civil War will not pit Americans against one another over territory. It will be a fight for the heart and soul of our nation in which everybody will lose.ABOUT THE DOOMSDAY SERIESWith political rancor at an all-time high, the war of words escalates and a political war erupts. Americans are caught in the crosshairs of societal unrest and a mysterious society sworn to protect the constitution against those who threaten it, at all cost.America has become embroiled in something more than a clash of ideologies. She is now facing a battle in which the blood of tyrants and patriots will be shed. This is a story about a nation divided and what that portends for the future. BOOKS IN THE DOOMSDAY SERIESDoomsday ApocalypseDoomsday HavenDoomsday AnarchyDoomsday MinutemenDoomsday Civil War

Author : J. B. Priestley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781941147146
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Doomsday Men written by J. B. Priestley and published by . This book was released on 2014-05 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three men, each on a separate mission, converge in the California desert. The discover their situations are intertwined and join forces to unravel their mysteries. The trail of clues leads to an explosive conclusion!

Author : John H. Rubel
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780761840619
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doomsday Delayed written by John H. Rubel and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2008 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of the Soviet launching of Sputnik I, John H. Rubel became one of six Assistant Directors of Research and Engineering for the Department of Defense in the recently re-organized Pentagon. It was here that Rubel would witness two of the most significant events of his career. In Doomsday Delayed, Rubel recounts the initial disclosure to selected civilian defense officials of launch arrangements designed into the Minuteman missile system and the Single Integrated Operational Plan (SIOP-62), both deliberately designed to kill and maim innocent civilians in the USSR and China. These launch system designs invited the possibility of an unauthorized or accidental mass launch of tens or even hundreds of nuclear-tipped missiles with little or no warning, effectively removing operational control from the President, military commander, or civilian defense official in the event of nuclear confrontation. Rubel's account illustrates how potentially disastrous gaps came to exist between national military policies and the detailed design and development of major intercontinental ballistic missile systems-important lessons to be learned in this time of rogue nations and nuclear proliferation.

Author : John Boynton Priestley
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Doomsday Men written by John Boynton Priestley and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1938 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mysterious and sinister events lead three men independently to the same Californian Valley. Their adventures are exciting and the tension is well held.

Author : John Boynton Priestley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Doomsday Men written by John Boynton Priestley and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Stumpf
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 1610757351
Total Pages : 595 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Minuteman written by David Stumpf and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2021-02-26 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Minuteman: A Technical History of the Missile That Defined American Nuclear Warfare, David K. Stumpf demystifies the intercontinental ballistic missile program that was conceived at the end of the Eisenhower administration as a key component of the US nuclear strategy of massive retaliation. Although its nuclear warhead may have lacked power relative to that of the Titan II, the Minuteman more than made up for this in terms of numbers and readiness to launch—making it the ultimate ICBM. Minuteman offers a fascinating look at the technological breakthroughs necessary to field this weapon system that has served as a powerful component of the strategic nuclear triad for more than half a century. With exacting detail, Stumpf examines the construction of launch and launch control facilities; innovations in solid propellant, lightweight inertial guidance systems, and lightweight reentry vehicle development; and key flight tests and operational flight programs—all while situating the Minuteman program in the context of world events. In doing so, the author reveals how the historic missile has adapted to changing defense strategies—from counterforce to mutually assured destruction to sufficiency.

Author : Scott Cook
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476686378
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rehearsing for Doomsday written by Scott Cook and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-10-06 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1988, Scott Cook was a boarding school PE teacher responsible for the proper inflation of dodge balls. A year later, he was operating an underground strategic missile control center with 10 intercontinental nuclear weapons capable of obliterating an entire country. This unexpected journey took him from the serene hills of Virginia through months of intensive training on the California coast to the front lines of the Cold War, beneath the frozen plains of North Dakota. His frank, entertaining memoir describes the insular and secretive military subculture of men and women who lived with the sobering burden of potentially unleashing global devastation, and how an easy-going gym coach ended up in an organization whose unofficial motto was "To err is human; to forgive is not Strategic Air Command policy."

Author : Thomas Gordon Plate
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Doomsday written by Thomas Gordon Plate and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SCOTT (copy 1) from the John Holmes Library collection.

Author : Daniel Ellsberg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1608196747
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Doomsday Machine written by Daniel Ellsberg and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist for The California Book Award in Nonfiction The San Francisco Chronicle's Best of the Year List Foreign Affairs Best Books of the Year In These Times “Best Books of the Year" Huffington Post's Ten Excellent December Books List LitHub's “Five Books Making News This Week” 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, for the first time, former high-level defense analyst Daniel Ellsberg reveals his shocking firsthand account of America's nuclear program in the 1960s. From the remotest air bases in the Pacific Command, where he discovered that the authority to initiate use of nuclear weapons was widely delegated, to the secret plans for general nuclear war under Eisenhower, which, if executed, would cause the near-extinction of humanity, Ellsberg shows that the legacy of this most dangerous arms buildup in the history of civilization--and its proposed renewal under the Trump administration--threatens our very survival. No other insider with high-level access has written so candidly of the nuclear strategy of the late Eisenhower and early Kennedy years, and nothing has fundamentally changed since that era. Framed as a memoir--a chronicle of madness in which Ellsberg acknowledges participating--this gripping exposé reads like a thriller and offers feasible steps we can take to dismantle the existing "doomsday machine" and avoid nuclear catastrophe, returning Ellsberg to his role as whistle-blower. The Doomsday Machine is thus a real-life Dr. Strangelove story and an ultimately hopeful--and powerfully important--book about not just our country, but the future of the world.