[PDF] Nuclear Summer eBook

Author : Louise Krasniewicz
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 15,16 MB
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1501720007

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When thousands of women gathered in 1983 to protest the stockpiling of nuclear weapons at a rural upstate New York military depot, the area was shaken by their actions. What so disturbed residents that they organized counterdemonstrations, wrote hundreds of letters to local newspapers, verbally and physically harassed the protestors, and nearly rioted to stop one of the protest marches? Louise Krasniewicz reconstructs the drama surrounding the Women’s Encampment for a Future of Peace and Justice in Seneca County, New York, analyzing it as a clash both between and within communities. She shows how debates about gender and authority—including questions of morality, patriotism, women’s roles, and sexuality—came to overshadow arguments about the risks of living in a nuclear world. Vivid ethnography and vibrant social history, this work will engage readers interested in American culture, women’s studies, peace studies, and cultural anthropology.

Author : Louise Krasniewicz
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 47,11 MB
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1501719998

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When thousands of women gathered in 1983 to protest the stockpiling of nuclear weapons at a rural upstate New York military depot, the area was shaken by their actions. What so disturbed residents that they organized counterdemonstrations, wrote hundreds of letters to local newspapers, verbally and physically harassed the protestors, and nearly rioted to stop one of the protest marches? Louise Krasniewicz reconstructs the drama surrounding the Women’s Encampment for a Future of Peace and Justice in Seneca County, New York, analyzing it as a clash both between and within communities. She shows how debates about gender and authority—including questions of morality, patriotism, women’s roles, and sexuality—came to overshadow arguments about the risks of living in a nuclear world. Vivid ethnography and vibrant social history, this work will engage readers interested in American culture, women’s studies, peace studies, and cultural anthropology.

Author : James Sternal
Publisher :
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 19,65 MB
Release : 2019-02-25
Category :
ISBN : 9781728701776

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June 2020: Savannah Georgia is a smoking nuclear wasteland. Devastated by an American nuke that the Department of Energy clumsily lost. One of a dozen such devices they now admit to "misplacing". The terrorist organization claiming responsibility issued the following statement. More American cities will die by weapons of your own making at the time and place of our choosing. You have been warned. For sixteen year old Liz Stephens and her twin sister the summer was all about sun and fun and boys until a strange group of research scientists show up at their sleepy resort community in northern Minnesota. A tantalizing series of clues lead the teens to discover a decade's old mystery but attempting to solve it could very well prove fatal. How do you reason with a group that has no demands, except death to America? You don't, you kill it first.

Author : TD. Barnes
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 23,53 MB
Release : 2014
Category :
ISBN : 9781310371196

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Nuclear Summer, Book 3 of the EMP Series, the nuclear winter survivors sheltered in Yucca Mountain spend two years preparing to repel attacks by migrating South American Islamic jihadists seeking to establish an Islamic caliphate.The nuclear winter that once blanketed the globe has now reduced to storms influenced by the roving jet stream.The survivors split, most taking refuge in the North Las Vegas Veteran's Hospital with hopes of restoring society. A small group remains at the mountain to defend it.Samantha leads a battle that ensues at the Hoover Dam just ahead of global weather changes that deliver radioactive dust from an El Nino storm. The survivors once again seek cover. Tragedy strikes with unimaginable consequences.

Author : Matthew S. Cox
Publisher : Evergreen
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 14,91 MB
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781950738137

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Ten months after civilization burned in a rain of nuclear fire, Harper Cody faces a situation scarier than shooting bad guys-having hope.The people of Evergreen try their best to cling to the modern world, but life inexorably slides toward a society resembling the Wild West. With each passing week, supplies of modern goods dry up, forcing people to adapt, improvise, and re-learn old ways of doing things.Harper's feelings for Logan slip into frightening territory, but at least her little sister appears to have coped with her trauma. Madison doesn't even grumble about having to work on the farm over summer break.But the war isn't done with her yet. Right as Harper begins to hope the future might not be so bad, the nuclear wasteland proves even the most innocent looking things can kill her.

Author : Serhii Plokhy
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 45,69 MB
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0393540820

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"The definitive history.…With his masterly book, Mr. Plokhy has sounded a warning bell." — The Economist A harrowing account of the Cuban missile crisis and how the US and USSR came to the brink of nuclear apocalypse. Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, today’s world leaders are abandoning disarmament treaties, building up their nuclear arsenals, and exchanging threats of nuclear strikes. To survive this new atomic age, we must relearn the lessons of the most dangerous moment of the Cold War: the Cuban missile crisis. Serhii Plokhy’s Nuclear Folly offers an international perspective on the crisis, tracing the tortuous decision-making that produced and then resolved it, which involved John Kennedy and his advisers, Nikita Khrushchev and Fidel Castro, and their commanders on the ground. In breathtaking detail, Plokhy vividly recounts the young JFK being played by the canny Khrushchev; the hotheaded Castro willing to defy the USSR and threatening to align himself with China; the Soviet troops on the ground clearing jungle foliage in the tropical heat, and desperately trying to conceal nuclear installations on Cuba, which were nonetheless easily spotted by U-2 spy planes; and the hair-raising near misses at sea that nearly caused a Soviet nuclear-armed submarine to fire its weapons. More often than not, the Americans and Soviets misread each other, operated under false information, and came perilously close to nuclear catastrophe. Despite these errors, nuclear war was ultimately avoided for one central reason: fear, and the realization that any escalation on either the Soviets’ or the Americans’ part would lead to mutual destruction. Drawing on a range of Soviet archival sources, including previously classified KGB documents, as well as White House tapes, Plokhy masterfully illustrates the drama and anxiety of those tense days, and provides a way for us to grapple with the problems posed in our present day.

Author : Gwyneth Cravens
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 47,9 MB
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 030726856X

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An informed look at the myths and fears surrounding nuclear energy, and a practical, politically realistic solution to global warming and our energy needs. Faced by the world's oil shortages and curious about alternative energy sources, Gwyneth Cravens skeptically sets out to find the truth about nuclear energy. Her conclusion: it is a totally viable and practical solution to global warming. In the end, we see that if we are to care for subsequent generations, embracing nuclear energy is an ethical imperative.

Author : Vipin Narang
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 23,8 MB
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0691172625

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The first systematic look at the different strategies that states employ in their pursuit of nuclear weapons Much of the work on nuclear proliferation has focused on why states pursue nuclear weapons. The question of how states pursue nuclear weapons has received little attention. Seeking the Bomb is the first book to analyze this topic by examining which strategies of nuclear proliferation are available to aspirants, why aspirants select one strategy over another, and how this matters to international politics. Looking at a wide range of nations, from India and Japan to the Soviet Union and North Korea to Iraq and Iran, Vipin Narang develops an original typology of proliferation strategies—hedging, sprinting, sheltered pursuit, and hiding. Each strategy of proliferation provides different opportunities for the development of nuclear weapons, while at the same time presenting distinct vulnerabilities that can be exploited to prevent states from doing so. Narang delves into the crucial implications these strategies have for nuclear proliferation and international security. Hiders, for example, are especially disruptive since either they successfully attain nuclear weapons, irrevocably altering the global power structure, or they are discovered, potentially triggering serious crises or war, as external powers try to halt or reverse a previously clandestine nuclear weapons program. As the international community confronts the next generation of potential nuclear proliferators, Seeking the Bomb explores how global conflict and stability are shaped by the ruthlessly pragmatic ways states choose strategies of proliferation.