Discusses the history of nuclear weapons and their proliferation since the discovery of fission in 1938, covering the covert spread of technology around the world and post-Cold War geopolitical issues regarding the programs of countries such as Pakistan, China, and North Korea.

When the Soviet Union collapses, thousands of nuclear warheads go unaccounted for, and it'll take someone of Jake Grafton's talents to make sure they don't end up in the wrong hands. Promoted to deputy director of a new U.S. intelligence agency, the stakes of Jake Grafton's commission are higher than ever before. With the USSR on the brink of dissolution, a vast nuclear arsenal is suddenly ripe for the taking by mercenaries, rogue nations, and insane...

When an eminent scientist makes a startling breakthrough in nuclear weapons research only to have the lives of his family threatened if he does not give his technology to the Iranian regime, Sean Dillon, Afghan war hero Sara Gideon and the rest of their team embark on a daring rescue mission that rapidly spins out of control.

Ethan Hunt and his IMF team, along with some familiar allies, race against time after a mission gone wrong.

Joseph Masco is professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Theater of Operations. An important investigation of the sociocultural fallout of America's work on the atomic bomb In The Nuclear Borderlands, Joseph Masco offers an in-depth look at the long-term consequences of the Manhattan Project. Masco examines how diverse groups in and around Los Alamos, New Mexico understood and responded to the U.S. nuclear...

Archvillain Lex Luthor, determined to make the world safe for nuclear arms merchants, creates a new being to challenge the Man of Steel, the radiation-charged Nuclear Man. The two super-powered foes clash and Superman saves the Statue of Liberty, repulses a volcanic eruption of Mount Etna, rebuilds the demolished Great Wall of China and performs many more spectacular feats.

"A riveting narrative of the Atomic Age -- from x-rays and Marie Curie to the Nevada Test Site and the 2011 meltdown in Japan -- written by the prizewinning and bestselling author of Rocket Men. Radiation is a complex and paradoxical concept: staggering amounts of energy flow from seemingly inert rock and that energy is both useful and dangerous. While nuclear energy affects our everyday lives, from nuclear medicine and food irradiation to microwave...

A computer malfunction causes nuclear-equipped American bombers to destroy Moscow and the president of the United States has to take terrible measures to appease the Soviets and prevent all-out nuclear war.