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High Frontier: A New National Strategy, Lt. Gen Daniel O. Graham, USA (Ret.), A Project of The Heritage Foundation. Taped to the back inside cover: Dear Reader letter asking for contributions to High Frontier, signed Buzz Aldrin and a High Frontier brochure. Table of Contents Foreword The High Frontier Study: A Summary Chapter I: Strategy The Situation in Brief The Options The Incremental Approach ...

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84047686
The Bells of Nagasaki, translated by William Johnston "Among the wounded on the day that they dropped the bomb on Nagasaki was a young doctor, who, though sick himself, cared for the sick and dying. Written when he lay dying of leukemia, The Bells of Nagasaki is the extraordinary account of his experience. its is an eyewitness account of a terrible event in human history; it is the heroic story of a small group of doctors, nurses, and students; i...

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86231217
Public Works Canada, Emergency Preparedness, Emergency Planning Canada, Public Information, Home Fallout Protection. Letter taped inside the front cover from D.S. Puccini, Emergency Planning Division, Ottawa, Ontario. November 17, 1986. "Dear Cresson: I enjoyed meeting you at the TACDA/NCCEM meeting in Dallas last month. As promised, I am sending you a copy of the recent Government of Canada publication "Home Fallout Protection". Yours truly, D...

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87060790
Lifesaving Facts and Self- Help Instructions, Nuclear War Survival Skills, updated and expanded 1987 edition, by Cresson H. Kearny, author of the original 1979 Oak Ridge National Laboratory edition. Foreword by Dr. Edward Teller Summary Foreword Introduction Chapters: I. The Dangers from Nuclear Weapons: Myths and Facts 2. Psychological Preparations 3. Warnings and Communications 4. Evacuation 5. Shelter, the Greatest Need 6. Ventilat...

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91000696
Printed on the cover: The Controversial Book that Broke the U.S. Government's 50-Year Official Silence, Betrayal at Pearl Harbor, How Churchill Lured Roosevelt into World War II, "An important book ... the author's evidence is both convincing and considerable.", Contents: The Broadway Eavesdroppers, Other gentlemen's mail, Straws in the wind, A touch of magic, The nail in the horse's shoe, The uneasy relationship, The infamous dawn, Churchill's w...

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92090048
Printed on the cover: Dreadnought, Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War, "Dreadnought is history in the grand manner, as most people prefer it: how people shaped, or were shaped by, events", Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Peter the Great, Contents: The German challenge, The end of splendid isolation, The Navy, Britain and Germany: Politics and growing tension 1906-1910, The road to Armageddon. 6x9" 1007 pgs.

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93190049
The book, U.S. Ballistic Missile Subs in Action, is autographed by the author. Dedication Acknowledgements Introduction Propulsion Development Early Missile Experiments Ballistic Missile Development George Washington Class Ethan Allen Class Lafayette Class James Madison Class Benjamin Franklin Class Ohio Class FBM Bases and Operations

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9866678
Jungle Snafus... and Remedies, Cresson H. Kearny, Major of Infantry, A.U.S. Retired. "Combat-proven equipment especially needed by infantrymen fighting in jungles or in humid summer heat, but no longer available, is described - highlighted by graphic accounts of the development and use of individual flotation gear, breath-inflated lightweight infantrymen's boats, excellent Jungle Boots, mosquito-protective cool uniforms, health-protective per...

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QC778 .F47
The Story of Atomic Energy, by Laura Fermi, 184 pgs.,1961. The story of atomic power from the times of the Greek philosopher Democritus to the age of the "peaceful" atom, written by the widow of Enrico Fermi, the physicist who learned to control the release of nuclear energy which later led to the atomic bomb. Contents: 1. Atom means indivisible, but... 2. ...Atoms are not indivisible 3. A New Kind of Artillery 4. Better Bullets 5. The Rid...

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UF767.B695
Printed on the cover: When the Wind Blows, Raymond Briggs. Set up like a comic book. Movingly converts family soap opera into gallows humor by exposing the absurdity of ordinary modes of thinking in connection with nuclear war. 8 1/2 x 12"

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