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Nuking the Moon
And Other Intelligence Schemes and Military Plots Best Left on the Drawing Board
Häftad, 2019
127 kr
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"Compulsively readable laugh out loud history." Mary RoachBomb-carrying bats. Poisoned flower arrangements. Cigars laced with mind-altering drugs. Listening devices implanted into specially-trained cats. A torpedo-proof aircraft carrier made out of ice and sawdust. And a CIA plan to detonate a …
Nuking the Moon
And Other Intelligence Schemes and Military Plots Left on the Drawing Board
E-bok, 2019
145 kr
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The International Spy Museum''s Historian takes us on a wild tour of missions, schemes, and weapons that were planned, but ultimately deemed too dangerous, expensive, ahead of their time, or even certifiably insane In 1958, the US Air Force nuked the moon as a show of military might. In 1967, the …
Notes of Deception
How a Quartet of American Musicians Outwitted the KGB
Av Merryl Goldberg, Vince Houghton
Inbunden, 2026
250 kr
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How a Quartet of American Musicians Outwitted the KGB – The Untold History of a Daring Cold War Spy MissionIn 1985, while the United States engaged in a battle of nuclear brinkmanship, four Americans landed in Moscow on a mission to smuggle secret information in and out using music as their cipher. …
Nuclear Spies
America's Atomic Intelligence Operation Against Hitler and Stalin
Inbunden, 2019
328 kr
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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 …
Covert City
The Cold War and the Making of Miami
Av Eric Driggs, Vince Houghton
Inbunden, 2024
285 kr
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Secret operations, corruption, crime, and a city teeming with spies: why Miami was as crucial to winning the Cold War as Washington DC or Moscow.The Cuban Missile Crisis was perhaps the most dramatic and dangerous period of the Cold War. What's less well known is that the city of Miami, mere miles …
Nuking the Moon
And Other Intelligence Schemes and Military Plots Best Left on the Drawing Board
E-bok, 2019
130 kr
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"Compulsively readable laugh out loud history." Mary RoachBomb-carrying bats. Poisoned flower arrangements. Cigars laced with mind-altering drugs. Listening devices implanted into specially-trained cats. A torpedo-proof aircraft carrier made out of ice and sawdust. And a CIA plan to detonate a …
Nuclear Spies
America’s Atomic Intelligence Operation against Hitler and Stalin
Ljudbok, 2019
293 kr
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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 …
Atombomba månen : och andra militära projekt som lyckligtvis aldrig lämnade ritbordet
E-bok, 2023
99 kr
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Förgiftade blomsterarrangemang, cigarrer spetsade med droger, avlyssningsutrustning inplanterad i specialtränade katter. Dessutom en CIA-plan på att spränga månen med en kärnvapenladdning ... Här får vi ta del av de 21 mest osannolika och bisarra militära planerna från andra världskriget till …
