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    Unlikely Hero: Strange Stories, Book 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 26min
    What would you do if you found a nuke in the trunk of a car? A nuke with a countdown clock, with only two hours left? Would you run? Would you hide? Call the police? Trevor found a nuke, armed, with only two hours until it went off. He wanted to run, to get of Los Angeles, but even though he was one of the worst criminals you can imagine, he just couldn't leave it there and do nothing. His life had been hard and violent, and he had no reason to want to save anyone. People had hurt him since he was a small child, so why not let them die? He met a police officer named Don, an unusual man, who believed Trevor, and helped him. Trevor did not expect to be believed. So what do you do with a live, armed 100-kiloton Russian nuclear warhead that you find in the middle of Los Angeles? Trevor made his choice, and Don made his own choice as well. Find out how this saga of two men faced with an impossible choice turns out. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Roger Wood. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/072156/bk_acx0_072156_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Defusing the North Korean-U.S. Missile Crisis , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 65min
    In mid-2017, President Donald Trump let Kim Jong-un know that if his threats continued they would be met with “fire and fury the likes the world has never seen”. The scorching tweet went viral immediately. In response, the North Korean leader detonated a 100-kiloton hydrogen bomb, a successful test of a nuclear device which would be mounted on future missiles. The hostilities between North Korea and the US were daunting, but only the beginning of the growing animosity. Later in August, Kim Jong-un intensified the conflict, saying he was prepared to launch a Hwasong-12 intermediate range missile at the US occupied island of Guam. Infuriated, Trump warned with “all options are on the table”, meaning he was prepared to take whatever military action necessary. But in 2018, we all gave a sigh of relief when at the Trump-Kim summit, a new and friendlier dialogue surfaced between the two heads of state. Perhaps the fact that Pyongyang had now developed an ICBM capable of reaching the heart of America changed our outlook and policies on the rogue nation. Notwithstanding, Donald Trump has continued to dish out punishing sanctions for Kim Jong-un and shows no sign of removing pressure until North Korea abandons its missiles and nuclear program in its entirety. For several decades, we’ve witnessed the long arduous journey of nuclear threats and strife between the two nations.At the start of 2019, our hopes were on the Hanoi Summit, but it ended abruptly with no lunch and no concrete results. Meanwhile, North Korea has resumed its missile tests and President Donald Trump has just about run out of cards. Does he have a hidden ace somewhere? What if the North pushes for a Peace Treaty? At this point what do we have to lose? A peace treaty might not bring the full solution to the diplomatic quagmire, but it might be a step in the right direction. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Terry Rey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/216646/bk_acx0_216646_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Medellin: Acapulco Cold: A Cold War Adventure with Rick Fontain, Book 3 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 580min
    Medellin: Acapulco Cold by Bill Fortin - A Cold War Adventure with Rick Fontai, Book 3In January 1986, President Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev had agreed to enter a treaty agreement that would be labeled START II. The Russian SS-20 medium-range missile was to be removed from Eastern Europe. It was to be disassembled and destroyed. A like number of US rockets would suffer the same fate.The recently upgraded SS-20 MIRV nose cone configuration contained three 150 kiloton (kt) devices. During the first stages of the disassembly process three of these nose cones had gone missing. Nine 150 kt nuclear bombs were unaccounted for.A Russian named Geonov was charged with selling one of these devices to the Medellin cartel. The asking price was $40 million in cash. Pablo Escobar did not even blink when he was offered one. In March 1987, the CIA’s Operation Acapulco Cold took on the Medellín cartel. The journey was dangerous. The alternative for not recovering the nuke was too horrible to imagine.The year was 1987. It was hard to fathom the span of 17 years since Rick Fontain had stepped onto the world stage as a free agent of the Central Intelligence Agency. The official non-official title given to such a person is called a NOC. It stands for non-official cover.The evil being perpetrated by our adversaries during this time was both sinister and deadly. Our nation’s response to these many confrontations in the late 1970s would be described as a dismal attempt at leadership on the world stage.In 1980 a new sheriff came to town. Our adversaries were now thinking twice before provoking us. Many welcomed him with open arms. Some did not. And, when they forced his hand they found that the gloves came off immediately. His name was Ronald Reagan. His two term presidency would go down in history as America’s return to “one nation under God”.Eight years later America found itself back to square one. When 2001 rolled around ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: D.C. Newman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/154489/bk_acx0_154489_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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