The Bomb: A Life
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This is the life story of the atom bomb from its birth at the turn of the century to a childhood in the New Mexico desert of the 1940s, from early adulthood in Nagasaki to unsettling maturity in missile silos all over the globe.
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Our Supreme Task: How Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech Defined the Cold War Alliance Shares history, Cold War, nonfiction
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Six Months in 1945: FDR, Stalin, Churchill, and Truman--from World War to Cold War
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The Specter of Communism: The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1917-1953
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Useful Enemies: America’s Open-Door Policy for Nazi War Criminals
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The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour
