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Author : George Styles
Release : 1975
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Bombs Have No Pity by : George Styles
Download or read book Bombs Have No Pity written by George Styles. This book was released on 1975. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Styles (Lieut.-Colonel)
Release : 1975
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Book Synopsis Bombs Have No Pity by : George Styles (Lieut.-Colonel)
Download or read book Bombs Have No Pity written by George Styles (Lieut.-Colonel). This book was released on 1975. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gar Alperovitz
Release : 1996
Genre : Atomic bomb
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Book Synopsis The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb and the Architecture of an American Myth by : Gar Alperovitz
Download or read book The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb and the Architecture of an American Myth written by Gar Alperovitz. This book was released on 1996. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gerard J. De Groot
Release : 2005
Genre : Nuclear weapons
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Book Synopsis The Bomb by : Gerard J. De Groot
Download or read book The Bomb written by Gerard J. De Groot. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary, compelling account of the life and times of the atom bomb, from one of the UK's leading historians. Before 'the Bomb', there were simply bombs, lower case. Bombs are as old as hatred itself, but it was the twentieth century, one hundred years of almost incredible scientific progress, that saw the birth of the Bomb, the human race's most powerful and most destructive discovery. Since 8.14 a.m. 6 August 1945, when a lone B-29 aircraft appeared over the skies of Hiroshima and destroyed a city, the Bomb has haunted our dreams and threatened our existence.In this magisterial and enthralling account, Gerard DeGroot gives us the life story of the Bomb, from its birth in the turn-of-the-century physics labs of Europe to a childhood in the New Mexico desert of the 1940s, from adolescence and early adulthood in Nagasaki and Bikini, Australia and Siberia to unsettling maturity in test sites and missile silos all over the globe. The Bomb killed hundreds of thousands outright, condemned many more to lingering deaths and made vast tracts of land unfit for life. For decades it dominated the psyches of millions, becoming a touchstone of popular culture, celebrated or decried in mass political movements, films, songs and books. DeGroot has captured the Bomb's short but vastly significant life in all its scope, providing us with an astonishingly vivid portrait of the times and the people - from Teller to Oppenheimer, Truman to Reagan - whose legacy still governs our world.By turns horrific, awe-inspiring and blackly comic, The Bomb is never less than compelling. For there is as yet no sign of the Bomb's retirement. And its death might be ours too.
Author : A. R. Oppenheimer
Release : 2008-10-16
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis IRA, The Bombs and the Bullets by : A. R. Oppenheimer
Download or read book IRA, The Bombs and the Bullets written by A. R. Oppenheimer. This book was released on 2008-10-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking title, A. R. Oppenheimer tells how the Irish Republican Army became the most adept and experienced insurgency group the world has ever seen through their bombing expertise – and how, after generations of conflict, it all came to an end. The book is a comprehensive account of more than 150 years of Irish republican strategic, tactical, and operational details, and an analysis of the IRA’s mission, doctrine, targeting, and acquisition of weapons and explosives. As a leading expert on non-conventional weapons and explosives, Oppenheimer vividly presents the story behind the bombs – those who built and deployed them; those who had to deal with and dismantle them; and those who suffered or died from them. He analyses where, how, and why the IRA’s 19,000 bombs were built, targeted and deployed, and explores what the IRA was hoping to accomplish in its unrivaled campaign of violence and insurgency through covert acquisition, training, intelligence and counter-intelligence. Beginning with the Fenian ‘Dynamiters’ in the second half of the nineteenth century, Oppenheimer fully describes and assesses the impact of the pre-1970s bombing campaigns in Northern Ireland and England and the evolution of strategies and tactics during the Troubles. He concludes with the decommissioning of an arsenal big enough to arm several battalions – which included an entire home-crafted missile system, an unsurpassed range of improvised explosive devices (IEDs), and enough explosives to blow up several urban centres. The author scrutinises the level of deadly improvisation that became the hallmark of the Provisional IRA’s expertise and the ingenuity in its pioneering IED timing, delay and disguise technologies, and follows the arms race it carried on with the British Army and security services in a long war of mutual assured disruption. He also provides an insight into the bombing equipment and guns in the vast IRA inventory held at Irish Police HQ in Dublin.
