Summary: The film tells the story of a 1980 accident at a Titan II missile complex in Damascus, Arkansas, in minute-by-minute detail through the accounts of Air Force personnel, weapon designers, and first responders who were there, revealing the incredible chain of events that brought America to the brink of nuclear disaster.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 DROHoeffel, Joseph M.
Contents: The hard sell -- Intelligence truth and lies -- the run-up to war -- Voting for war -- War -- The aftermath of war, 2003 -- The aftermath of war, 2004 -- Consequences -- The Bush team memoirs -- Disclose the intelligence -- Cheney and Iraq : another intervention.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Progressive Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7 HOEPreston, Diana
Summary: "In six weeks during April and May 1915, as World War I escalated, Germany forever altered the way war would be fought. On April 22, at Ypres, German canisters spewed poison gas at French and Canadian soldiers in their trenches; on May 7, the German submarine U-20, without warning, torpedoed the passenger liner Lusitania, killing 1,198 civilians; and on May 31, a German Zeppelin began the first...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.4 PREJervis, Robert
Contents: Adventures in intelligence -- Failing to see that the Shah was in danger : introduction, postmortem, and CIA comments -- Analysis of NFAC's performance on Iran's domestic crisis, mid-1977-7 November 1978 -- CIA comments on the report -- The Iraq WMD intelligence failure : what everyone knows is wrong -- The politics and psychology of intelligence and intelligence reform.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cornell University Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 955.05 JERBlix, Hans.
Summary: "The author supervised the international inspections for WMDs in Iraq until March 2003."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 BLIFolsom, Allan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOLBarry, Dave.
Summary: An irreverent alternate perspective on recent world events features commentary on such topics as the 2000 election, the non-finding of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and the invention of pizza by Leonardo da Vinci.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 814.54 BARRich, Frank.
Summary: Reveals the spin campaign of the Bush administration that the author contends enabled the support of a war against a non-September 11 enemy, furthered conservative agendas, and consolidated presidential power.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.931 RICSummary: "There were two wars going on in Iraq, one was fought with armies of soldiers, bombs and a fearsome military force. The other was fought alongside it with cameras, satellites, armies of journalists and propaganda techniques. One war was rationalized as an effort to find and remove WMDs, Weapons of Mass Destruction; the other was carried out by even more powerful WMDs, Weapons of Mass...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Doc Workers 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WMDHolden, Paul
Summary: Although there is often opposition to individual wars, many people continue to believe that the arms industry is necessary in some form: to safeguard our security, provide jobs, or stimulate the economy. For these reasons, not only conservatives, but many progressives and liberals, are able to rationalize supporting it. But is the arms industry truly as essential as we’ve been led to believe? ...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zed Books Ltd 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 382.456 HOLMiller, Chris
Summary: "An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical resource--microchip technology--with the United States and China increasingly in conflict. You may be surprised to learn that microchips are the new oil--the scarce resource on which the modern world depends. Today, military, economic, and geopolitical power are built on a foundation of computer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster 2022