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Ambinder, Marc Ellsberg, Daniel Jacobsen, Annie Kaplan, Fred M. Thomas, Evan Woodward, BobEllsberg, Daniel
Summary: The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation Senior Fellow and iconic whistleblower who revealed the Pentagon Papers presents an eyewitness expos©♭ of the dangers of America's secret, long-standing nuclear policy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 355 ELLSummary: The film tells the story of a 1980 accident at a Titan II missile complex in Damascus, Arkansas, in minute-by-minute detail through the accounts of Air Force personnel, weapon designers, and first responders who were there, revealing the incredible chain of events that brought America to the brink of nuclear disaster.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF COMJacobsen, Annie
Summary: "Every generation, a journalist has looked deep into the heart of the nuclear military establishment: the technologies, the safeguards, the plans, and the risks. These projects are vital to how we understand the world we really live in: where one nuclear missile begets one in return; where the choreography of the world's end requires massive decisions made on seconds-notice, with information...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2024
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Summary: War is an intimate and sweeping account of one of the most tumultuous periods in presidential politics and American history. We see President Joe Biden and his top advisers in tense conversations with Russian president Vladimir Putin, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. We also see Donald Trump, conducting a shadow presidency and seeking to...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WOOThomas, Evan
Summary: Examines the White House years of Dwight Eisenhower and reveals the former president, often viewed as a doddering lightweight, as a brilliant, intellectual tactician who could be patient and ruthless, and generous and self-serving.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EISENHOWER, DWIGHT D THOAmbinder, Marc
Summary: The incredible story of the 1983 war game that triggered a tense, brittle period of nuclear brinkmanship between the United States and the former Soviet Union.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355 AMBKaplan, Fred M.
Summary: Fred Kaplan, hailed by The New York Times as “a rare combination of defense intellectual and pugnacious reporter,” takes us into the White House Situation Room, the Joint Chiefs of Staff’s “Tank” in the Pentagon, and the vast chambers of Strategic Command to bring us the untold stories—based on exclusive interviews and previously classified documents—of how America’s presidents and generals...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020