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1) Nimitz class
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xix, 411 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
It's as big as the Empire State Building, a massive floating fortress at the throbbing heart of a U.S. Navy Carrier Battle Group. Its supersonic aircraft can level entire cities at a stroke. Its surveillance gear can track every target within thousands of square miles--in the air, on the surface, and under the sea. Its crew of six thousand works night and day to keep this awesome military machine at peak performance. It's a Nimitz-Class nuclear carrier,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A top nuclear scientist turns homicidal, taking an innocent family hostage at gunpoint. Gideon Crew, a colleague of the scientist at Los Alamos, is called in to talk the man down. But the standoff ends in an explosion of violence. When the authorities discover the scientist's body is intensely radioactive, and that he had recently embraced Islamic extremism, all hell breaks loose.
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st Atria Books hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
514 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Intrepid intelligence operative Alex Hawke must thwart a secret, deadly alliance between China and France before they annihilate everything and everyone in their headlong rush toward world domination.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
This book tells the story of an AL Qeda operative named Amer Al Zaroor, who, on orders from Osama Bin Laden, directs the theft of a nuclear weapon from the Pakistani military, and then transports it toward its intended target, Israel. Meanwhile Bin Laden announces to the world that he will make a major terrorist strike on 9/11/10, the tenth anniversary of 9/11. Deep inside Washington, Brooke Chandler, a CIA operative whose cover was blown by an incompetent...
7) Triple
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As Egypt comes closer and closer to developing a nuclear bomb, the Mossad's number one Israeli agent is given an impossible mission: to beat the Arabs in the nuclear arms race by finding and stealing two hundred tons of uranium. The world's balance of power will shift. And the Mossad, KGB, Egyptians, and Fedayeen terrorists will play out the final, violent moves in this devastating game where the price of failure is nuclear holocaust..."
8) Fallout
Author
Series
Op-center volume 22
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"As fears of a dangerous nuclear confrontation between China and the US escalate, China targets individual members of the Black Wasp team in this heart-pounding entry in the bestselling series. After successfully extricating one of Beijing's top scientists from captivity and escorting him to America, the Black Wasp commandos find themselves targeted by Chinese assassins. The killers are not only highly trained but invisible, launching tactical strikes...
Author
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
436 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Into each of his bold thrillers, best-selling author Steve Martini packs fast-moving action and convincing characters. Critical Mass is his chillingly realistic tale of nuclear terrorism and a deadly plot to destroy the American way of life. While updating the database at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies in California, nuclear fission expert Gideon van Ry discovers two Russian nuclear devices are missing. As he searches for the unstable components,...
10) Bloody Sunday
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"North Korea, increasingly isolated from most of the rest of the world, is led by an absolute dictator and a madman with a major goal--he's determined to launch a nuclear attack on the United States. While they have built, and continue to successfully test nuclear bombs, North Korea has yet to develop a ballistic missile with the range necessary to attack America. But their missiles are improving, reaching a point where the U.S. absolutely must respond....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st Touchstone hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
308 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When their autistic son Michael--a genius descended from Albert Einstein--is abducted by a cult bent on the destruction of the world, science historian David Swift and quantum physicist Monique Reynolds must stop the cult members from recreating the Big Bang and destroying mankind.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
422 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Joe Ledger and Echo Team rescue a group of American college kids held hostage in Iran,the Iranian government then asks them to help find six nuclear bombs planted in the Mideast oil fields. These stolen WMDs will lead Joe and Echo Team into hidden vaults of forbidden knowledge, mass-murder, betrayal, and a brotherhood of genetically-engineered killers with a thirst for blood. Accompanied by the beautiful assassin called Violin, Joe follows a...
15) Blink of an eye
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
368 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
xiii, 386 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Recruited on a clandestine mission to thwart the transfer of nuclear warheads into rogue hands, covert operative turned A-list movie star Ty Hunter uses all his skills as a spy, soldier, and actor to match wits with an enigmatic billionaire.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
When a malevolent foreign dictator hacks into the U.S. nuclear defense system, the president comes under fire. With the clock winding down, lawyer Ben Kincaid has precious little time to defend the president. While Kincaid faces the trial of his life, legendary CIA agent Seamus McKay races through the clogged streets of Washington, searching for a hidden command center--guarded by murderous fanatics--that now controls U.S. ballistic missiles.
18) Ballistic
Author
Publisher
Baen Publishing Enterprises
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
377 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Don't mess with our astronauts! A Russian ICBM site is attacked just north of the Ukraine boarder. The nuclear warheads are missing! A Special Operations and Intelligence Community Task Force is rapidly put together to respond, but where it should deploy is unclear. A fire ravages a cosmonaut training facility in which five spacesuits disappear. And the Task Force finds a cache of detailed schematics of highly complex rocketry systems.The Task Forces...
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Abridged.
Physical Desc
4 audio discs (approximately 4 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
NSA operative Charlie Dean must find a missing nuclear warhead before a terrorist group detonates it on the ocean floor in a plot to shift the earth's surface and cause world-wide disaster. The terrorists call it "God's revenge."