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000428207 1001_ $$aKeeney, L. Douglas.
000428207 24510 $$a15 minutes :$$bGeneral Curtis LeMay and the countdown to nuclear annihilation /$$cL. Douglas Keeney.
000428207 2463_ $$aFifteen minutes
000428207 2463_ $$aNuclear annihilation
000428207 250__ $$a1st ed.
000428207 260__ $$aNew York, NY :$$bSt. Martin's Press,$$c2011.
000428207 300__ $$ax, 372 p., [16] p. of plates :$$bill., map ;$$c25 cm.
000428207 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000428207 5050_ $$aAcknowledgments -- Introduction:  Inextinguishable -- Prologue:  War -- 1945:  Necessities -- 1945:  Seeds -- 1945:  Understanding Hiroshima -- 1946:  Disorganization -- 1947:  Becoming a weapon -- 1948:  Becoming a war command -- 1949:  Transformations -- 1950:  First lost bomb -- 1950:  Truman's hedge -- 1951:  Atomic cocktails -- 1951:  Rogue waves -- 1952  Asphyxiated -- 1953:  Sword and the shield -- 1954:  Tower four -- 1954:  Weather Island -- 1954:  Blunt force -- 1954:  Rock -- 1954:  Runaway bomb -- 1954:  Material condition able -- 1954:  Burned out -- 1954:  Rescue -- 1955:  One bomb apart -- 1955:  Tower four -- 1956:  Two-man rule -- 1956:  Grape babies -- 1957:  Cocked bombers -- 1957:  Engineering nightmare -- 1958:  Hot cargo -- 1958:  Bombs-on-base -- 1958:  Irretrievably lost -- 1959:  Like a ship -- 1959:  Jumpy, alert-happy force -- 1960:  Hurricane Donna -- 1960:  Fire is gravy -- 1961:  One-point detonation -- 1961:  Clobber factor -- 1961:  Collapse -- 1961:  Tapping -- 1962:  DEFCON -- 1962:  Beer cans -- 1963:  Dead hand -- 1964:  Killing a society -- 1965:  Forever lamed -- 1966:  Complete weapons -- 1966:  Press targets -- 1967:  Vietnam -- 1968:  13-8 minutes -- Epilogue -- Language of the Cold War -- Sources -- Index.
000428207 520__ $$aPresents an account of how America was nearly decimated during the Cold War by atomic weapons, drawing on previously classified documents to reveal a sequence of foiled operations, near-misses, and nuclear weapon testing accidents.
000428207 60010 $$aLeMay, Curtis E.
000428207 650_0 $$aNuclear weapons$$xGovernment policy$$zUnited States$$xHistory$$y20th century.
000428207 650_0 $$aNuclear warfare$$zUnited States$$xPrevention$$xHistory$$y20th century.
000428207 650_0 $$aCold War.
000428207 651_0 $$aUnited States$$xArmed Forces$$xOperational readiness$$xHistory$$y20th century.
000428207 651_0 $$aUnited States$$xMilitary policy.
000428207 651_0 $$aUnited States$$xHistory, Military$$y20th century.
000428207 85200 $$bgen$$hU264.3$$i.K43$$i2011
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000428207 980__ $$aBIB
000428207 980__ $$aBOOK