Продолжение цикла рассказов о сложной работе спецслужб во второй чеченской компании. В произведении ярко описаны характеры и судьбы людей, правдиво освещена атмосфера тех дней и даются ссылки на исторические факты. Рассказ основан на реальных событиях.
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The development of nuclear weapons by the Manhattan Project during World War II was one of the most dramatic scientific/technological episodes in human history. This book, prepared by a recognized expert on the Manhattan Project, offers a concise survey of the essential physics concepts underlying fission weapons. The text describes the energetics and timescales of fast-neutron chain reactions, why only certain isotopes of uranium and plutonium ...
This volume, prepared by an acknowledged expert on the Manhattan Project, gives a concise, fast-paced account of all major aspects of the project at a level accessible to an undergraduate college or advanced high-school student familiar with some basic concepts of energy, atomic structure, and isotopes. The text describes the underlying scientific discoveries that made nuclear weapons possible, how the project was organized, the daunting challen ...
This critically acclaimed account of the Battle for Okinawa is told through the eyes of Colonel Hiromichi Yahara, the senior staff officer of the 32nd Japanese Army. It features segments on the Japanese preparation for battle, the American assault, and a summary of how the battle ended. Following the events that occurred in the life of Colonel Hiromichi Yahara, journalist Frank Gibney is able to lay out the importance of the battle and the ways ...
From Syrian civilians locked in iron cages to veterans joining peaceful indigenous water protectors at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, from Sri Lanka to Iraq and from Yemen to the United States, human beings have been used as shields for protection, coercion, or deterrence. Over the past decade, human shields have also appeared with increasing frequency in antinuclear struggles, civil and environmental protests, and even computer games. The ...
Книга представляет собой 2-й том многотомника, в который вошли биографии всех военачальников Красной Армии, получивших воинские звания генерал-майор артиллерии, генерал-лейтенант артиллерии и генерал-полковник артиллерии с 1940 по 1945 гг. Биографии составлены на базе учетно-послужных карт военнослужащих и других архивных документов. Многие сведения публикуются впервые.
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