Operation Argus


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It is the final months of the 2016 campaign for the United States presidency. There is no question that the world is on edge. Mitch is a British Special Air Service leader who is cautiously going about his life and business. He has good reason. After all, his daughter, Bella, has already been a victim of a kidnapping. But when he and several former SAS soldiers are summoned from around the world to attend an operative’s funeral, everything changes once again. It is not long before Mitch and his colleagues determine foul play in the death of their friend. Unfortunately, he is not the first SAS operative to die under bizarre circumstances. As Mitch leads the charge to investigate the mysterious death, their quest for the truth takes them from San Francisco to London, from Lithuania to Moscow and to Tangiers in Morocco where they must survive many challenges. But do they have what it takes to thwart the dark forces that lurk in the shadows and under a veil of Maskirovka? In this international political thriller, a group of British Special Forces soldiers become intertwined in a complex mystery involving a drug cartel, the CIA, the IRA, and the Russian mob while investigating a former colleague’s mysterious death.




Burning the Sky


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The unbelievable true story of an American Cold War scheme to detonate nuclear bombs in space is revealed in this military history exposé. The summer of 1958 was a nerve-racking time. The Soviet Union’s launch of Sputnik drew America into a game of nuclear one-upmanship. Tensions escalated between the two superpowers over their respective nuclear weapons reserves, both sides desperate for a solution to the imminent threat of massive destruction. In America, an outlandish yet ingenious idea was raised by the eccentric physicist Nicholas Christofilos: launching atomic bombs into outer space to fry incoming Soviet ICBMs with an artificial radiation belt. Known as Project Argus, this secret plan was the riskiest scientific experiment in history. In Burning the Sky, Mark Wolverton draws on recently declassified sources to tell this incredible, unknown story. Burning the Sky chronicles Christofilos’s unconventional idea from its inception to execution—when the so-called mad scientist persuaded the military to use the entire Earth’s atmosphere as a laboratory. A meticulously researched tale that reads like a sci-fi thriller, Burning the Sky will intrigue any lover of scientific or military history.




Operation ARGUS, 1958


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The ARGUS shots were conducted to test the Christofilos theory, which argued that high-altitude nuclear detonations would create a radiation belt in the upper regions of the Earth's atmosphere. It was postulated that these belts of radiation (primarily high-energy electrons) might cause degradation of radio and radar transmissions, damage or destruction of the arming mechanisms of ICBM warheads, and endangerment of crews in orbiting space vehicles that might enter the belt.




For the Record


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Operation Argus


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It is the final months of the 2016 campaign for the United States presidency. There is no question that the world is on edge. Mitch is a British Special Air Service leader who is cautiously going about his life and business. He has good reason. After all, his daughter, Bella, has already been a victim of a kidnapping. But when he and several former SAS soldiers are summoned from around the world to attend an operative's funeral, everything changes once again. It is not long before Mitch and his colleagues determine foul play in the death of their friend. Unfortunately, he is not the first SAS operative to die under bizarre circumstances. As Mitch leads the charge to investigate the mysterious death, their quest for the truth takes them from San Francisco to London, from Lithuania to Moscow and to Tangiers in Morocco where they must survive many challenges. But do they have what it takes to thwart the dark forces that lurk in the shadows and under a veil of Maskirovka? In this international political thriller, a group of British Special Forces soldiers become intertwined in a complex mystery involving a drug cartel, the CIA, the IRA, and the Russian mob while investigating a former colleague's mysterious death.




For the Record


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Code of Federal Regulations


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Special edition of the Federal Register, containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect ... with ancillaries.




The Station Comes of Age


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The Code of Federal Regulations of the United States of America


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The Code of Federal Regulations is the codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government.




A History of U.S. Nuclear Testing and Its Influence on Nuclear Thought, 1945–1963


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The story of U. S. nuclear testing between 1945 and 1963 is a vivid and exciting one, but also one of profound importance. It is a story of trailblazing scientific progress, weapons of mass destruction, superpower rivalry, accidents, radiological contamination, politics, and diplomacy. The testing of weapons that defined the course and consequences of the Cold War was itself a crucial dimension to the narrative of that conflict. Further, the central question - Why conduct nuclear tests? - was fully debated among American politicians, generals, civilians, and scientists, and ultimately it was victory for those who argued in favor of national security over diplomatic and environmental costs that normalized nuclear weapons tests. A History of U. S. Nuclear Testing and Its Influence on Nuclear Thought, 1945–1963 is an examination of this question, beginning with the road to normalization and, later, de-normalization of nuclear testing, leading to the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in 1963. As states continue to pursue nuclear weaponry, nuclear testing remains an important political issue in the twenty-first century.