Summary: During the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller and his team of Army inspectors were dispatched to find weapons of mass destruction believed to be stockpiled in the Iraqi desert. Rocketing from one booby-trapped and treacherous site to the next, the men search for deadly chemical agents but stumble instead upon an elaborate cover-up that inverts the purpose...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GREJervis, 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.
Format: text
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 BLISummary: 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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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF COMSummary: "Into the 9.6-quaked Los Angeles of 2013 comes Snake Plissken (Russell). His job: wade through L.A.'s ruined landmarks to retrieve a doomsday device"--Container
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 1998
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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 HOEDrogin, Bob.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 956.7044 DROCoulter, Catherine.
Summary: Freshly minted FBI agent Nicholas Drummond is barely out of his Quantico training when he and his partner, Mike Caine, are called to investigate a stabbing on Wall Street. Their investigation, however, yields more questions than answers. It quickly becomes clear that the victim, John Pearce, was more than the naval historian and antiquities dealer he appeared to be. What Drummond doesn't know...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2014
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Coulter 2014Hawksley, Humphrey.
Summary: "Instructed to guide in a speed boat crossing from Russia in the Bering Strait, special forces Major Rake Ozenna watches in horror as the operation culminates in a fatal firefight - and the loss of vital intelligence of a deadly new weapon. A weapon of unimaginable power. A weapon that, if it were unleashed, would cripple civilization as we know it. But who sabotaged the mission? Who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAWSummary: Mickey Matson and his friend Sully must fight the evil Admiral Ironsides, who is intent on destroying the world with a new weapon of mass destruction.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Pure Flix 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PiBellucci, Monica
Summary: When an aging spy on a final mission to redeem his career exhibits questionable behavior, a younger agent is sent to follow him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2019
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2 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER SPIPreston, 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 PREChambers, A. J.
Summary: When off-the-books MI5 operative Terry Nolan is attacked, it's clear his cover is blown and his network of spies compromised. Nolan must call upon all his skills to find out who is behind the attacks and why.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: Eric Steele is in an elite clandestine unit known simply as "the Program". Steele is on assignment in Beirut when a CIA convoy is attacked and a nuclear weapon is stolen. Soon it becomes clear that the perpetrators are from Steele's past and the geopolitical events take a personal turn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PARSummary: This videodisc presents the rarely dramatized, tumultuous early years of King Henry VIII's nearly 40 year, omnipotent reign (1509-1547). In addition to his famous female consorts and 20+ year marriage to Catherine of Aragon and to the infamous dalliance with Anne Boleyn, the series delves in to Henry's most notable political relationship and the deconstruction of the Roman Catholic Church in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Showtime Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TUDFolsom, Allan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOLPriest, Christopher
Summary: In the near future, Tibor Tarent, a freelance photographer, is recalled from Anatolia to Britain when his wife, an aid worker, is killed--annihilated by a terrifying weapon that reduces its target to a triangular patch of scorched earth. A century earlier, Tommy Trent, a stage magician, is sent to the Western Front on a secret mission to render British reconnaissance aircraft invisible to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRIBruns, David
Summary: In 2003, the world watched as coalition forces toppled Saddam Hussein’s regime, then scoured the country for the WMDs they knew were there. Iraqi weapons of mass destruction were never found…but they exist. On the eve of the invasion, five nuclear devices are smuggled out of Iraq and hidden in the most unlikely of places—neighboring Iran. Now, as the threat of WMDs fades into a late-night...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reef Points Media LLC 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRUDirgo, Craig.
Summary: Anti-terrorist agent John Taft is called into action when the Chinese stumble upon the secret of Einstein's Unified Field Theory, hidden since the scientist's death, a formula that would allow the Chinese to build a super-weapon that could make the U.S. nuclear arsenal obsolete.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DIRMaberry, Jonathan
Summary: Terrorists-for-hire have created a weapon that can induce earthquakes and cause dormant volcanoes to erupt. One terrifying side-effect of the weapon is that prior to the devastation, the vibrations drive ordinary people to suicide and violence. A wave of madness begins sweeping the country, beginning with a muder-suicide in Congress. Joe Ledger and his team go on a wild hunt to stop the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MABSummary: The remarkable true story of one soldier's death in battle, another soldier's journey of discovery and a nation's reverence and gratitude toward its war dead. After hearing of the heroic death of a young Marine in Iraq, veteran officer Lt. Colonel Michael Strobl volunteers to escort the remains of Lance Corporal Chance Phelps back to his hometown in Wyoming. As Strobl crosses America's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TAKSummary: While raising the ruins of a long-buried Chinese kingdom, billionaire inventor Tony Stark digs up far more than he bargained for. He unleashes an age-old prophecy that foretells the resurrection of the Mandarin, the emperor of China's darkest and most violent dynasty. In order to confront destructive forces, Tony creates an armored suit infused with high-tech weaponry.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2007
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE IROSummary: Richard Alpert, after being expelled from Harvard in 1963 for experimenting with LSD, morphed into Ram Dass, a serious and much loved spiritual leader, author and lecturer. This film visits Ram Dass in 2001 as he remakes his life since suffering a stroke five years ago. Balances fascinating, often hilarious footage from the hippie era with contemporary material and interviews with Ram Dass and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Video 2003
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC RAMSummary: Ram Dass shares the essence of his core wisdom through his iconic humor, joy, and honesty. Historical footage compliments an engaging conversation with director Jamie Catto as they explore the life experiences that helped to free Ram Dass from the attachment to his "somebody-ness" a journey that transformed him into the radiant soul who now inspires a new generation. It is the quintessential...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020