Military

Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety by Eric Schlosser, Penguin Books, 2014.

Blackett's War: The Men Who Defeated the Nazi U-Boats and Brought Science to the Art of Warfare , by Stephen Budiansky, Vintage, 2013.  Operational Research This book describes the origin of operational research in Britain during World War II. Blackett played a major role. Beforehand, civilian mathematicians, scientists and engineers had worked on only designing weapons, not analyzing how they were used. Operational Research contributed to winning the Battle of the Atlantic b

Nato: The Dangerous Dinosaur by Ted Galen Carpenter, Cato Institute, 2019

One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War  by Michael Dobbs, Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.  Cuban Missile Crisis Soon after Fidel Castro became dictator of Cuba in 1959, he turned to the Soviet Union for financial and military hep. In particular, the Soviets installed missiles with nuclear warheads in Cuba in 1962. American U-2 spy planes discovered this fact. This book has a tremendous amount of detail about what happened in Cuba during the

Thread of the Silkworm  by Iris Chang, Basic Books, 1996.  Deporting Genius Chang tells the story of a rocket scientist, Tsien Hsue-Shen, who was born in China in 1911 and educated in the United States. He left China in 1935 to study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. During World War II, he worked with Hungarian engineer Theodore von Kármán at the California Institute of Technology and helped found the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. During the 1950s, the United States

The Forgotten Highlander: An Incredible WWII Story of Survival in the Pacific  by Alistair Urquhart , Skyhorse, 2011. Scotland The author begins with his innocent childhood in Scotland. He was a soldier in Singapore when the Japanese took the city. Singapore When the Japanese took the city in 1942, they killed 50 thousand Chinese civilians in what is called the Sook Ching massacre.  Burma-Siam Railroad Besides performing slave labor building the Burma-Siam Railroad, the priso