America's Lost Nuke

2019-02-18 Atomic bomb

Author : Frederick Roark
Release : 2019-02-18
Genre : Atomic bomb
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Book Rating : 601/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis America's Lost Nuke by : Frederick Roark

Download or read book America's Lost Nuke written by Frederick Roark. This book was released on 2019-02-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I have written a 93,000-word manuscript that has two principle characters and both are historically accurate people. I have taken some liberties in their individual experiences but only for the sake of the story. It is a story I have shared only with my family because of certain restrictions that no longer apply. It is an historical fiction piece of work that will generate an eye-opening experience for the reader. My editor feels it is a story that must be told. It exposes the lies told to us by our four Presidents: Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson. For those who grieved over family lost in Vietnam it gives closure. This story is filled with real life experiences of two brave warriors dedicated to solving a decades old mystery. Both suffered wounds and both continued the quest. There is comedy, romance and tragedy found between the covers. The two warriors display wisdom, compassion, strength, humility and loyalty. They accept what is freely given but never ask for what should be given freely. They reach for lofty goals and share the struggle for success. One character is a black man born in Columbus, Georgia in 1895. He was tired of the racial persecution and at sixteen he left America for France. The man worked his way there by engaging in very unique occupations. He makes it to France and joins his adopted counties military when world war one breaks out. His several near-death experiences as an infantry-man are culminated with his becoming an aviator and an ace fighter pilot. After the war, he becomes a successful night club owner. When the second world war breaks out he becomes a spy for the allied army. At the end of the war he is asked to help France become a nuclear power. He and a second pilot fly to the island of Tinian. Using guile and deception they abscond with the unused A-Bomb developed by the Manhattan Project.In the process of returning it to France, it is stolen during a fueling stopover in Vietnam. The pilot is then given the responsi

Broken Arrow

2008 History

Author : Norman Leach
Release : 2008
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 482/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Broken Arrow written by Norman Leach. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the eve of Valentine's Day, 1950, an American Strategic Air Command B-36 bomber-loaded with an atomic bomb-flew into the frozen night on a simulated bombing run from Alaska to San Francisco. The engines suddenly failed on this notoriously unreliable aircraft and the crew, before parachuting into the rugged terrain of northern British Columbia, set the autopilot to take the aircraft far out to sea. Years later the wreckage of the bomber was accidentally discovered on a remote northern British Columbia mountaintop hundreds of miles from its presumed location deep beneath the Pacific Ocean. Did an atomic bomb lie undetected for a number of years in coastal northern British Columbia? Or was the nuclear weapon jettisoned and destroyed only miles from Canadian shores, becoming the world's first dirty bomb? Was this America's first lost nuclear weapon? Finally, and most baffling, did one of the missing crewmembers, the last man aboard, attempt to pilot the doomed aircraft back to its Alaskan base? A Discovery Channel special on this topic aired in November 2006 with strong media coverage. The special is expected to air several more times in 2007 and 2008. This compelling true-life mystery will resonate with readers in a world in which a new nuclear arms race is shaping the geopolitical climate.

Lost Nuke

2016 History

Author : Dirk Septer
Release : 2016
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 283/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Lost Nuke written by Dirk Septer. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A story seemingly drawn out of a Hollywood action script...Gripping stuff."--Canada's History Just before midnight on February 13, 1950, three engines of a US Air Force B-36 intercontinental bomber caught fire over Canada's northwest coast. The crew jumped, and the plane ditched somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Almost four years later, the wreck of the bomber was found accidentally in a remote location in the coastal mountains of British Columbia, three hours' flying time in the opposite direction of where it was supposed to have crashed. After years of silence, the United States finally admitted to losing its very first nuclear bomb; the incident was its first Broken Arrow, the code name for accidents involving nuclear weapons. But was the bomb dropped and exploded over the Inside Passage, or was it blown up at the aircraft's resting place in the mountains? This Cold War-era tale follows the last flight of bomber 075 and attempts to unravel the real story behind more than fifty years of secrecy, misdirection, and misinformation.

The Day We Lost the H-Bomb

2009-04-28 History

Author : Barbara Moran
Release : 2009-04-28
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 234/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Day We Lost the H-Bomb written by Barbara Moran. This book was released on 2009-04-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Day We Lost the H-Bomb, science writer Barbara Moran marshals a wealth of new information and recently declassified material to give the definitive account of the Cold War’s biggest nuclear weapons disaster. On January 17, 1966, a U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber exploded over the sleepy Spanish farming village of Palomares during a routine airborne refueling. The explosion killed seven airmen and scattered the bomber’s payload–four unarmed thermonuclear bombs–across miles of coastline. Three of the rogue H-bombs were recovered quickly. Tracking down the fourth required the largest search-and-salvage operation in U.S. military history. Moran traces the roots of the Palomares incident, giving a brief yet in-depth history of the Strategic Air Command and its eccentric, larger-than-life commander, General Curtis LeMay, whose massive deterrence strategy kept armed U.S. bombers aloft at all times. Back on the ground, Moran recounts the myriad social and environmental effects of an accident that spread radioactive debris over hundreds of acres of Spanish farmland, alarmed America’s strategic allies, and damaged Spanish-American diplomatic relations. As the American military floundered in its attempt to keep the story secret, the events in Spain sometimes took on farcical overtones. Constant global media hype was fueled by the hit James Bond movie Thunderball, with its plot about an atomic weapon lost at sea. In addition, there were the unwanted attentions of a rusty- hulled Soviet surveillance ship and even awkward public relations stunts, complete with American diplomats in swim trunks. The Day We Lost the H-Bomb is a singular work of military history that effortlessly and dramatically captures Cold War hysteria, high-stakes negotiations, and the race to clean up a disaster of unprecedented scope. At once epic and intimate, this book recounts in stunning detail the fragile peace Americans had made with nuclear weapons–and how the specter of imminent doom forced the United States to consider not only what had happened over Palomares but what could have happened. This forgotten chapter of Cold War history will grip readers with the tension of that time and reawaken the fears and hopes of that dangerous era.

Broken Arrow

2019-06-19 History

Author : Jim Winchester
Release : 2019-06-19
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 922/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Broken Arrow written by Jim Winchester. This book was released on 2019-06-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “unnerving exposé” of a lost American nuclear bomb “is a valuable contribution to the history of the navy, the cold war, and nuclear weapons” (Booklist). On December 5th, 1965, the USS Ticonderoga was on its way from Vietnam to Japan, practicing nuclear combat procedures along the way. A young pilot from Ohio strapped into an A-4 Skyhawk bomber for a routine simulated mission. But after mishandling the maneuver, the plane and its pilot sunk to the bottom of the South China sea, along with a live B43 one-megaton thermonuclear bomb. A cover-up mission began as rumors of sabotage began to circulate. The incident, known as a ‘Broken Arrow’, was kept under wraps for twenty-five years. The details that emerged caused a diplomatic incident, revealing that the U.S. had violated agreements not to bring nuclear weapons into Japan. Broken Arrow tells the story of Ticonderoga’s sailors and airmen, the dangers of combat missions and shipboard life, and the accident that threatened to wipe her off the map and blow US-Japanese relations apart. For the first time, through previously classified documents, never before published photos of the accident aircraft and the recollections of those who were there, the story of carrier aviation’s only ‘Broken Arrow’ is told in full.

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