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100 1 a| Keeney, L. Douglas.=| ^A583349;

245 10 a| 15 minutes :b| General Curtis LeMay and the countdown to nuclear annihilation /c| L. Douglas Keeney.;

246 3 a| Fifteen minutes;

246 3 a| Nuclear annihilation;

250 a| 1st ed.;

260 a| New York, NY :b| St. Martin's Press,c| 2011.;

300 a| x, 372 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :b| illustrations, map ;c| 25 cm;

336 a| text2| rdacontent;

337 a| unmediated2| rdamedia;

338 a| volume2| rdacarrier;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-351) and index.;

520 a| Presents an account of how America was nearly decimated during the Cold War by atomic weapons, drawing on previously classified documents to reveal a sequence of foiled operations, near-misses, and nuclear weapon testing accidents.;

505 0 a| Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Inextinguishable -- Prologue: War -- 1945: Necessities -- 1945: Seeds -- 1945: Understanding Hiroshima -- 1946: Disorganization -- 1947: Becoming a weapon -- 1948: Becoming a war command -- 1949: Transformations -- 1950: First lost bomb -- 1950: Truman's hedge -- 1951: Atomic cocktails -- 1951: Rogue waves -- 1952 Asphyxiated -- 1953: Sword and the shield -- 1954: Tower four -- 1954: Weather Island -- 1954: Blunt force -- 1954: Rock -- 1954: Runaway bomb -- 1954: Material condition able -- 1954: Burned out -- 1954: Rescue -- 1955: One bomb apart -- 1955: Tower four -- 1956: Two-man rule -- 1956: Grape babies -- 1957: Cocked bombers -- 1957: Engineering nightmare -- 1958: Hot cargo -- 1958: Bombs-on-base -- 1958: Irretrievably lost -- 1959: Like a ship -- 1959: Jumpy, alert-happy force -- 1960: Hurricane Donna -- 1960: Fire is gravy -- 1961: One-point detonation -- 1961: Clobber factor -- 1961: Collapse -- 1961: Tapping -- 1962: DEFCON -- 1962: Beer cans -- 1963: Dead hand -- 1964: Killing a society -- 1965: Forever lamed -- 1966: Complete weapons -- 1966: Press targets -- 1967: Vietnam -- 1968: 13-8 minutes -- Epilogue -- Language of the Cold War -- Sources -- Index.;

600 10 a| LeMay, Curtis E.=| ^A168380;

650 0 a| Cold War.=| ^A235197;

651 0 a| United Statesx| Military policy.=| ^A16012;

651 0 a| United Statesx| History, Militaryy| 20th century.=| ^A22890;

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15 minutes : General Curtis LeMay and the countdown to nuclear annihilation / L. Douglas Keeney.

Author/creator	Keeney, L. Douglas
Format	Book
Edition	1st ed.
Publication Info	New York, NY : St. Martin's Press, 2011.
Description	x, 372 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Supplemental Content	Contributor biographical information
Supplemental Content	Publisher description
Supplemental Content	Sample text
Subjects	LeMay, Curtis E. Nuclear weapons--Government policy. --United States. --History. --20th century. Nuclear warfare--United States. --Prevention. --History. --20th century. Cold War. United States--Armed Forces. --Operational readiness. --History. --20th century. United States--Military policy. United States--History, Military. --20th century.

Variant title	Fifteen minutes
Variant title	Nuclear annihilation
Contents	Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Inextinguishable -- Prologue: War -- 1945: Necessities -- 1945: Seeds -- 1945: Understanding Hiroshima -- 1946: Disorganization -- 1947: Becoming a weapon -- 1948: Becoming a war command -- 1949: Transformations -- 1950: First lost bomb -- 1950: Truman's hedge -- 1951: Atomic cocktails -- 1951: Rogue waves -- 1952 Asphyxiated -- 1953: Sword and the shield -- 1954: Tower four -- 1954: Weather Island -- 1954: Blunt force -- 1954: Rock -- 1954: Runaway bomb -- 1954: Material condition able -- 1954: Burned out -- 1954: Rescue -- 1955: One bomb apart -- 1955: Tower four -- 1956: Two-man rule -- 1956: Grape babies -- 1957: Cocked bombers -- 1957: Engineering nightmare -- 1958: Hot cargo -- 1958: Bombs-on-base -- 1958: Irretrievably lost -- 1959: Like a ship -- 1959: Jumpy, alert-happy force -- 1960: Hurricane Donna -- 1960: Fire is gravy -- 1961: One-point detonation -- 1961: Clobber factor -- 1961: Collapse -- 1961: Tapping -- 1962: DEFCON -- 1962: Beer cans -- 1963: Dead hand -- 1964: Killing a society -- 1965: Forever lamed -- 1966: Complete weapons -- 1966: Press targets -- 1967: Vietnam -- 1968: 13-8 minutes -- Epilogue -- Language of the Cold War -- Sources -- Index.
Abstract	Presents an account of how America was nearly decimated during the Cold War by atomic weapons, drawing on previously classified documents to reveal a sequence of foiled operations, near-misses, and nuclear weapon testing accidents.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-351) and index.
LCCN	2010039441
ISBN	9780312611569
ISBN	0312611560

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