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"Against the backdrop of the 2016 presidential election, five simultaneous murders on three continents leads a cyber sleuth to a thread revealing someone has just bought five nuclear weapons. But who and what is their target? American intelligence expert Ray Bowman is brought in to find out. With the help of a Mossad agent and a female South African intelligence officer, he races around the world to stop nuclear terror. Washington fears the bombs...

When a nuclear bomb that was smuggled into Washington, D.C. at the height of the Cold War falls into the hands of Chechen rebels, disgraced Deputy U.S. Marshal Wyatt Conway is called because of his past friendship with one of the terrorists.

"A riveting, chilling tale of how a group of ragtag activists infiltrated one of the most secure nuclear weapons sites in the United States, told alongside a broader history of America's nuclear stewardship, from the early stages of the Manhattan Project to our country's never-ending investment in nuclear weaponry. On Saturday, July 28, 2012, three senior citizens broke into one of the most secure nuclear weapons facilities in the world. An eighty-two-year-old...

Traces the development of nuclear weapons from 1945 to the present and examines the arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union, the likely results of nuclear warfare, and the progress of arms control and disarmament.

Sheriff in the high desert of Nevada, Porter Beck must solve the murder of an old, retired FBI agent linked to a mystery dating back to the early days of the nuclear age in a case where an all-but-forgotten person holds the key to what happened then and the deadly events now.

Nuclear weapons are, today, as important as they were during the Cold War. In fact, some experts say we could be as close to a nuclear catastrophe now as we were at the height of that conflict. Yet conversations about nuclear bombs generally happen in past tense. In Countdown, science journalist Sarah Scoles uncovers a different atomic reality: the unclear age's present. Drawing from years of on-the-ground reporting at the nation's nuclear weapons...

Jake Grafton is the only pilot who can stop a power-hungry Arab terrorist in a man-to-man aerial dogfight.

Presents a minute-by-minute account of an H-bomb accident that nearly caused a nuclear disaster, examining other near misses and America's growing susceptibility to a catastrophic event.