Jeffrey T. Richelson

Defusing Armageddon: Inside NEST, America's Secret Nuclear Bomb Squad

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The first in-depth examination of NEST: America's super-secret government agency operating to prevent nuclear terrorist attacks.Jeffrey T. Richelson reveals the history of the Nuclear Emergency Support Team, from the events leading to its creation in 1974 to today. Defusing Armageddon provides a behind-the-scenes look at NEST's personnel, operations, and detection and disablement equipment--employed in response to attempts at nuclear extortion, lost and stolen nuclear material, crashed nuclear-powered Soviet satellites, and al Qaeda's quest for nuclear weapons. Richelson traces the Cosmos satellite that crashed into the Canadian wilderness; n… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-393-24406-9
EAN: 9780393244069
Produktnummer: 34247417
Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Seitenangabe: 416 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 3'668 KB
Abbildungen: 16 pages of illustrations; 4 maps

Über den Autor

Jeffrey T. Richelson (1949—2017) was the author of several books on intelligence, including Spying on the Bomb and Defusing Armageddon. He was a Senior Fellow with the National Security Archive.