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"After allying itself with Pakistan's intelligence services and notorious terrorist group the Tehrik-e-Taliban-Pakistan (TTP), ISIS is ready to achieve its ultimate dream: forcing the US into a clash of civilizations in the Mideast. The best way to accomplish this mission is to acquire three Pakistani nukes--then set them off in three US cities"--Amazon.com.
3) Black dawn
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
�2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Ex-CIA Agent Jonathan Cold is mysteriously aiding terrorists to obtain a nuclear weapon to use against the United States. The safety of millions rests on answering the impossible question: whose side is Cold on? When Cold's cover is detected, he has no choice but to save one of his former students and stop the sale of the bomb.
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Bonneville Books
Pub. Date
c2010
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p. cm.
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English
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The Russians have learned that Einstein has left a trunk full of formulas for making a nuclear bomb that is sixty times more powerful than anything that exists today. His great-granddaughter Yohaba, a brilliant physicist in her own right, and an ex-spy, Rulon Hurt, who was recently fired, are the only ones who can stop them from stealing it.
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Brandon Vale is a career thief---the best there is. Or at least he was before he was thrown in prison for a jewel heist gone bad. And even more embarrassing, he had nothing to do with it. His time inside is going fairly quietly until the night he's broken out against his will by Richard Scanlon, the now-retired FBI agent who framed him in the first place. Scanlon, who still has ties to the United States intelligence community, has discovered that...
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Along the Afghanistan border, a CIA agent meets secretly with a distraught Arab girl. She passes him a coded message before killing herself. But before the message can be deciphered, the world spins toward war: Within hours, the president of Pakistan is assassinated, and the country's nuclear warheads go missing. Al Qaeda streams into northern Pakistan. Israel puts her combat forces on hair-trigger alert.
CIA paramilitary agent Peter Zembeic is given...
9) MacGruber
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Unrated ed.
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1 videodisc (1 hr., 35 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Only one operative has been awarded 16 purple hearts, and only one guy is man enough to still sport a mullet. In the 10 years since his fiancě was killed, special op MacGruber has sworn off a life of fighting crime with his bare hands. But when he learns his country needs him to find a nuclear warhead that's been stolen by his sworn enemy, MacGruber teams up with his trusty sidekick and an uptight lieutenant to get the job done.
10) Exit plan
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Jerry Mitchell novels volume 3
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English
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Jerry Mitchell is on exercises off the coast of Pakistan when his submarine, the USS Michigan, is ordered to a rendezvous off the Iranian coast. Once there, disembarked SEALs--experts in seaborne commando operations--are to extract two Iranian nationals who have sensitive information on Iran's nuclear weapons program.
11) Terrorism
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Terrorism is a global phenomenon that affects the everyday lives of many people. Terrorist attacks have been carried out people of all ethnic and religious backgrounds. Recent deadly attacks in Brussels, Belgium; San Bernardino, California; and Paris, France, have drawn international condemnation. This book examines the development of terrorism, from its earliest history to the present day. It attempts to define terrorism, provides information about...
12) Cold shot
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The USS Vicksburg is returning home when the crew comes upon a lifeboat bearing a dead Somali pirate who shows signs of torture. Questions immediately arise: Who is this man, and which ship did he come from? Who tortured him? Soon Red Cell analysts Kyra Stryker and Jonathan Burke have traced the dead man back to an Iranian ship currently bound for Venezuela - and the ship appears to have dangerous, radioactive cargo on board. The Iranians' plan quickly...
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HighBridge
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Unabridged
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English
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"A thrilling narrative of scientific triumph-and the unimaginable, world-ending peril it brought us. Fearing that the Germans would be the first to weaponize the atom, the United States marshaled brilliant minds and seemingly inexhaustible bodies to find a way to create a nuclear chain reaction with unimaginable explosive power. It would begin with plutonium, the first element ever manufactured by humans. In a matter of months, a city designed to...
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
[Rental ed.]
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1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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John McClane, the heroic New York cop with a knack for being in the wrong place at the right time, is back, and his latest predicament takes him all the way to Russia to track down his estranged son, Jack, who has been imprisoned in Moscow. But the mission takes a deadly turn as father and son must join forces to thwart a nuclear weapons heist that could trigger World War III.
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From the recipient of the 1997 Whiting Award.
Feeling disconnected from the wildly beautiful desert that she has known intimately for twenty years, award-winning writer Ellen Meloy embarks on a search for home that is historical, scientific, and spiritual. Her "Map of the Known Universe," devised to guide her quest, reveals extraordinary details of a physical link between the atomic age and her home on Utah's San Juan River. The Map grows to include...
16) Countdown 1945: the extraordinary story of the atomic bomb and the 116 days that changed the world
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2020.
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English
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A Fox News Sunday anchor and a Pulitzer Prize-winning AP investigative journalist present a behind-the-scenes account of the secret meetings, global events, leadership decisions, and civilian realities that led to the Hiroshima bombing.
17) Strait of Hormuz
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Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Center Point Large Print ed.
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English
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
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First edition.
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IL: MG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 9
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266 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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Publisher Annotation: Bomb meets Code Girls in this nonfiction narrative about the little-known female scientists who were critical to the invention of the atomic bomb during World War II.
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HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2023
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Unabridged
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English
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"As the residents of Winthrop Island prepare for the first summer season after the sacrifice of war, a glamorous new figure moves into the guest cottage at Summerly, the idyllic seaside estate of the wealthy Peabody family. To Emilia Winthrop, daughter of Summerly's year-round caretaker and a descendant of the island's settlers, Olive Rainsford opens a window into a world of shining possibility. While Emilia spent the war years caring for her incapacitated...
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Distributed by Paramount
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
Widescreen version.
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1 videodisc (126 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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During World War II, in the remote desert of New Mexico, the "Manhattan Project" was developing the atomic bomb. General Leslie Groves is in charge of the massive project that will produce two nuclear weapons: "Fat Man" and "Little Boy". J. Robert Oppenheimer is the brilliant scientist attempting to bring the mission to fruition. What develops is the mushroom-shaped specter that changes our world forever.
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