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Author
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Based on his first-hand experiences and observations of how the Department of Homeland Security is failing to make America safe, Ervin shows the real threats we face-from nuclear attack to homegrown terrorism. Pushed out by the White House for refusing to sugarcoat its failures, Ervin candidly discusses the circumstances of his departure. He takes the reader inside the decision-making councils of this newest department of the U.S. government, and...
5) Red dawn
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainement
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The unsuspecting citizens of Spokane, Washington, wake up one morning to the shocking sight of foreign paratroopers dropping from the sky in a surprise attack on the United States. Soon the entire city is under enemy control, but a group of courageous teenagers has decided to fight back, waging an all-out war against the invaders, to take back their town and their freedom!
6) Raven Rock: the story of the U.S. government's secret plan to save itself - while the rest of us die
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The eye-opening truth about the government's secret plans to survive a catastrophic attack on US soil--even if the rest of us die--a roadmap that spans from the dawn of the nuclear age to today"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Cherry Lake Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"In Homeland Security, readers will learn about another side of the American government, both past and present. Sidebars include thought-provoking trivia, and ask questions about current events as well as the readers' own lives. Questions in the backmatter ask for text-dependent analysis. Photos, a glossary, and additional resources are included."--Publisher's website.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Americans have been shocked in the past few years to discover how vulnerable our nation is to disaster, be it terrorist attack or act of God. But what's truly shocking, argues leading security expert Stephen Flynn, is how little we have learned from the cataclysms of September 11 and Hurricane Katrina. When it comes to catastrophe, America is living on borrowed time-and squandering it. In this eye-opening, vitally important new book, Flynn issues...
13) Tomorrow!
Author
Publisher
Rinehart
Pub. Date
[1954]
Language
English
Description
Conjecture of a tomorrow which brings an attack by the enemy and the destruction of all major cities across an unprepared country.
14) Skywatchers
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The year is 1952. The threat of invasion from the Soviet Union has people in a panic. Teddy, John, Caroline, Eleanor, Bunny, Frank, and Oscar are members of their high school's "Operation Skywatch" club, they, looking to the sky in an effort to protect the country from attack. But they're not prepared for the strange green light they see when on duty. Or the mysterious object which lands in the forest. Teddy, John, Caroline, and Bunny go in to investigate....
16) Threads
Publisher
Severin Films
Pub. Date
[2018.
Language
English
Description
"Produced by BBC TV presents a documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and it's effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long range affects of nuclear war on civilization." --
17) Radar girls
Author
Language
English
Description
"Daisy Wilder prefers the company of horses to people, bare feet and salt water to high heels and society parties. Then, in the dizzying aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Daisy enlists in a top-secret program, replacing male soldiers in a war zone for the first time. Under fear of imminent invasion, the WARDs guide pilots into blacked-out airstrips and track unidentified planes across Pacific skies. But not everyone thinks the women are up...
