Nuclear Spies

Why did the US intelligence services fail so spectacularly to know about the Soviet Union's nuclear capabilities following World War II? As Vince Houghton, historian and curator of the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC, shows us, that disastrous failure came just a few years after the Manhattan Project's intelligence team had penetrated the Third Reich and knew every detail of the Nazi's plan for an atomic bomb. What changed and what went wrong?

This isn’t a story about the future. It’s a story about now. About a world where everyone knows disaster is coming—yet no one speaks. Where generals run “just in case” scenarios, knowing that the case is already on its way. Where nuclear war is no longer taboo. It’s a plan. Nuclear War is a global political thriller that begins with one strike—and ends the way the world might.

The Sunday Times bestselling edge-of-your-seat exploration of what would happen in the event of nuclear war, perfect for readers of American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Nuclear war begins with a blip on a radar screen. This is a minute-by-minute account of what...

This is more than the story of nuclear conflict. It’s about the devastating effects wrought by nuclear winter. Our possible future is seen through the eyes of the Albright family. Hank Albright, a widower and proprietor of the Driftwood Key Inn, is the epitome of the laid-back islander inhabiting the Keys. His brother, Mike, is a homicide detective for the Monroe County Sheriff’s department. Along with his wife, Jessica, a paramedic and member of the sheriff’s department's water emergency team, they become involved in the investigation of a sadistic serial killer.

Brought to you by Penguin. This is a book about a team of scientists and psychics with top secret clearances. For more than forty years, the U.S. government has researched extrasensory perception, using it in attempts to locate hostages, fugitives, secret bases, and downed fighter jets, to...

Brought to you by Penguin. What if climate change isn’t an environmental challenge, but an energy challenge? In this visionary book, Dr Tim Gregory urges us to rethink the path to net zero. He argues that the solution to climate change lies not simply in replacing fossil fuels with renewables...

Brought to you by Penguin. From the bestselling author of Chernobyl comes a sweeping history of the geopolitics behind the nuclear arms race, from the first atomic bomb to today On 16 July 1945, the Nuclear Age began with the explosion of the first atomic bomb and the words of J. Robert...

Brought to you by Penguin. The definitive new history of the Cuban Missile Crisis from the author of Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy, winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize For more than four weeks in the autumn of 1962 the world teetered. The consequences of a misplaced step during the Cuban...

When Lena buys DNA testing kits for her father Tom and her twin sister Alison, she thinks they’ll enjoy finding out where their ancestors come from, and what percentage Neanderthal they are. She has no idea the gift will blow her family apart. Tom is forced to admit that he isn’t his daughters’ biological father: he and his late wife, Sheila, used a sperm donor. He's terrified Lena and Alison will reject him, and desperate to win back their trust – whatever it takes.

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.

Can Peter Sinclair and his men foil a Communist revolt in the Caribbean? Lieutenant Peter Sinclair, RN is recalled to serve with the British Section of the United Nations Naval Security Force. In command of one of Britain's first nuclear-powered submarines, HM Nuclear Submarine Rugged, Sinclair manages to man her with most of his former ship's company, including Able Seaman Bill Hawkins and Lieutenant Hank Jefferson, US Navy.

Mark Wolfe, as MI6's Senior Consultant, is an overqualified yet undervalued part-timer at Vauxhall House, but an attack on his life in his own home brings the reality of working for Six back into dangerous focus. Especially when his would-be assassin is purported to be working for il Fantasma, a...

London is gone. After a massive blackout over the North Atlantic damages satellites and communication networks, the world enters a dangerous new phase. Governments are no longer talking about escalation — they are managing it.

In the Caribbean Sea, the U. S. Coast Guard intercepts a ship that should not exist. Aurora South was officially lost five years earlier after the strike on WHITE NODE, a secret Antarctic station. Now the vessel appears near Puerto Rico with its AIS off, its radio silent, and its autopilot steering it toward San Juan. On the bridge, no one is alive to explain who sent it there.

The powerful story of a CIA whistleblower and political prisoner who refused to give up on his American dream In 2015, Jeffrey Sterling was sentenced to prison, convicted of violating the Espionage Act. Sterling, it is now clear, was another victim of our government's draconian crackdown on...

NUCLEAR WAR: THE WAR FOR ORBIT is a standalone story from the world of DAY ZERO. You can listen to it on its own, without needing to know the previous books. The world after nuclear war is trying to return to order. Governments talk about law again. Cities are being rebuilt. People learn to live with the memory of catastrophe and plans for the future. In Moscow, Sergey Lavrov, president of New Russia, is preparing to announce the first election results since the war. For his supporters, it is meant to prove the country is leaving survival mode behind.

What if some of history's deadliest disasters were preventable—but quietly minimized, misreported, or buried after the victims were counted? Forbidden Secrets & Hidden Files of the World: Codex V takes listeners inside devastating industrial accidents, nuclear incidents, dam failures, mining catastrophes, environmental poisonings, military disasters, and government cover-ups from around the world.

What if the most shocking chapters of modern history were the ones governments never wanted you to read? This gripping audiobook opens the files on declassified intelligence operations, secret military experiments, nuclear disasters, espionage networks, hidden surveillance programs, political cover-ups, and buried historical truths.

Dive into the tense military history of the nuclear arms race and global espionage that pushed humanity to the brink. Perfect for your morning commute or an immersive deep-dive, this fast-paced narrative trades dry dates for the suspenseful, human-driven decisions behind the Iron Curtain...

After the war, the world learned a terrible truth: children are no longer only victims. They are labor. They are leverage. They are the future. Tens of millions have been left without parents, homes, papers, or any country able to say who they are. Some were torn away during evacuations. Others disappeared into camps, transit zones, and temporary centers where names can be changed, identities reassigned, and lives erased.