Nuclear Winter

President John F. Kennedy once said, “Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.” Today, a new element has been introduced to the preparations—artificial intelligence. The United States, in its quest to rapidly and effectively defend the nation from a nuclear attack, has incorporated AI into its operation plan of response. But what if the artificial intelligence relied upon by the nation’s decision-makers is wrong? What if AI takes the controls of America’s nuclear response? Might it trigger nuclear war without justification?

Set against the backdrop of China’s Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth. Meanwhile, on Earth, different camps start forming, planning to either welcome the superior beings and help them take over a world seen as corrupt, or to fight against the invasion.

This Very Short Introduction looks at the science of nuclear weapons and how they differ from conventional weapons. Tracing the story of the nuclear bomb, Joseph Siracusa chronicles the race to acquire the H-bomb, a thermonuclear weapon with revolutionary implications; and the history of early arms control, nuclear deterrence, and nonproliferation. He also tracks the development of nuclear weapons from the origins of the Cold War in 1945 to the end of Moscow-dominated Communism in 1991, and examines the promise and prospect of missile defense.

Eighth-grader Lucy Sandoval has no hope of reaching high school. Blindsided by a terminal cancer diagnosis, she resolves to spend her last moments with the father she never knew. But he disappeared years ago, and Lucy’s mother is tight-lipped about him and their shared past beyond his vague whereabouts. With no help and little to no leads, Lucy’s loses faith, when tragedy strikes and brings her cross-country flight down mid-air.

As the Emperor travels the galaxy at the head of his Great Crusade, few events are as important as rediscovering his scattered sons, the Primarchs, and bestowing them as the masters of their Legions. United, a Legion becomes a reflection of its Primarch, both in his strengths and his flaws. For the Twelfth Legion, once the War Hounds and now the World Eaters, the line between strength and flaw is almost impossible to separate.

It's 1942 and the Nazis are racing to be the first to build a weapon unlike any known before. They have the physicists, they have the uranium, and now all their plans depend on amassing a single ingredient: heavy water, which is produced in Norway's Vemork, the lone plant in all the world that makes this rare substance. Under threat of death, Vemork's engineers push production into overdrive. For the Allies, the plant must be destroyed.

Fourteen years after the dawn of darkness the Hamilton family still leads the Red Hawk Republic. Through personal tragedy and unspeakable hardship they've forged a new society from the ashes of the greatest empire the world had ever known. Old allies have fallen and new enemies surround them. Now the truth of what ruined the electronic world all those years ago is revealed, leading to discoveries nearly impossible to comprehend. While longing for peace, the folk of the Republic mobilize for total war against their enemies.Founder of the Republic Alex Hamilton forges ahead with a plan to ...

Is it worthwhile to invest one hour of your time to learning about nuclear war survival? The devastating events in Hiroshima and Nagasaki proved that there will always be survivors in the aftermath of a nuclear explosion. They did a few things right that made all the difference, and after listening to this short audiobook, you’ll know these critical steps too....

"A great read, and for the most part, refreshingly accurate on the sailing stuff." -Latitude 38 magazine The world was melting down with political insanity – Dylan Blake was happy to leave it all behind. Sailing alone near Antarctica in the middle of winter, she was prepared for the worst: icebergs, rogue waves, isolation. She had no idea of the dangers ahead. This science fiction suspense thriller will take you for a wild ride through unexpected waters. Dylan Blake is a female action hero for today's turbulent times, a solo sailing survivor of epic endurance. Set in the world of today's ...

Thermonuclear weapons and BlackStar, a top secret NSA device designed to protect the US arsenal, have been stolen. Jake Thomas leads the BlackStar Ops Group, an above Tier-1 level counterterrorism strike team charged with protecting BlackStar. Will they stop the sale to terrorists in time? Will they thwart plans of an ex-DEA agent intent on their destruction? Find out in BLACKSTAR ENIGMA...

I recently saw several predictions by well-known seers of the future that there will be a huge natural disaster in June/July of 2025. Whether a disaster from a comet crashing into the Earth, a huge volcanic eruption or earthquake or a nuclear war; the likelihood of humanity suffering a period of global cooling is that it will happen—and has already happened in the past. Disasters could actually cause global cooling for months or years. In trying to lookup any books on how to individuals and society should handle global cooling I couldn’t find anything. So I decided to write a manual ...

The Book-3 of the series takes-off at the onset of the 1970s decade, when, after having developed deployed thousands of ICBMs & SLBMs armed to the teeth with megaton-class thermonuclear warheads, both the U.S. as well as the U.S.S.R; were faced with the urgent need to invest billions of dollars towards the development & nationwide deployment of Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Systems to protect themselves against each other's ICBMs & SLBMs. The Soviets, incredibly, had deployed around 1,000 heavy ICBMs hosting a massive & insane 6,000+ megatons worth of thermonuclear warheads, collectively ...

12 years after the collapse of the United States, the town of New Haven has recovered the best they could without electricity. Their new sense of normal is challenged when the spring season never arrives and the townspeople are are forced to survive in a world where crops no longer grow and hunting is close to impossible. John, the sheriff of New Haven, is forced out into the cold when people start to disappear and he discovers he is on the trail of a killer.