15 minutes : General Curtis LeMay and the countdown to nuclear annihilation / L. Douglas Keeney.
Keeney, L. Douglas.
2011
U264.3 .K43 2011 (Mapit)
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Title 15 minutes : General Curtis LeMay and the countdown to nuclear annihilation / L. Douglas Keeney.
Author Keeney, L. Douglas.
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 9780312611569
0312611560
Imprint New York, NY : St. Martin's Press, 2011.
Language English
Description x, 372 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Call Number U264.3 .K43 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification 355.02/170973
Summary Presents 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Acknowledgments
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.

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