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Experts agree that the next terrorist attack on our soil will not
come in the same form as September 11. The possibility of nuclear,
chemical or biological attack is increasingly likely. "The U.S.
Armed Forces Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Counter-Terrorism
Handbook" will enable its readers to survive such an attack. It
contains the best practices of the United States' military,
completely edited and adapted for civilian use. For example,
readers will learn how to: Gain knowledge of an impending chemical
attack using a simple warning system; Protect against biological
threats such as anthrax with a series of inoculations; Guard
against fallout from a terrorist nuke; Achieve basic protection
during chemical or biological attacks with a simple mask; and
Administer first aid after nuclear, chemical or biological attacks
with a simple first aid kit.It's all here. This handbook is the
single most effective tool for civilians to protect themselves and
their loved ones against the threat looming over our homeland.
The Naval War College Review was established in 1948 and is a forum
for discussion of public policy matters of interest to the maritime
services. The forthright and candid views of the authors are
presented for the professional education of the readers. Articles
published are related to the academic and professional activities
of the Naval War College. They are drawn from a wide variety of
sources in order to inform, stimulate, and challenge readers, and
to serve as a catalyst for new ideas. Articles are selected
primarily on the basis of their intellectual and literary merits,
timeliness, and usefulness and interest to a wide readership. The
thoughts and opinions expressed in this publication are those of
the authors and are not necessarily those of the U.S. Navy
Department or the Naval War College.
Tom Clancy's Op-Center is back with this new thriller written by
the "New York Times" bestselling authors of Tom Clancy's ACT OF
VALOR and featuring a chilling, ripped-from-the-headlines
scenario.
Before 9/11 America was protected by a covert force known as the
National Crisis Management Center. Commonly known as Op-Center,
this silent, secret mantel guarded the American people and
protected the country from enemies. The charter was top secret and
Director Paul Hood reported directly to the president. Op-Center
used undercover operatives with SWAT capabilities to diffuse crises
around the world, and they were tops in their field. But after the
World Trade Center disaster, in the interest of streamlining,
OP-Center was disbanded--leaving the country in terrible
danger.
But when terrorists detonate bombs in sports stadiums around the
country leaving men, women and children dead or mutilated, the
President executes an emergency order to bring back Op-Center--an
Op-Center capable of dealing with the high tech crises of the 21st
Century, and there is a lethal one brewing in the Middle East. A
renegade Saudi Prince with ambitions of controlling the world's oil
supply has an ingenious plot to manipulate America into attacking
Syria and launching a war against Iran. Next, they would ignite a
sleeper cell to attack the America homeland, resulting in a
bloodbath unlike any other. Only the men and women of Op-Center,
using sophisticated technology, realize what is about to be
unleashed. Only they have the courage to issue a warning no one
wants to hear. But will anyone believe them?
On August 14, 1945, Alfred Eisenstaedt took a picture of a sailor
kissing a nurse in Times Square, minutes after they heard of
Japan’s surrender to the United States. Two weeks later LIFE
magazine published that image. It became one of the most famous
WWII photographs in history (and the most celebrated photograph
ever published in the world’s dominant photo-journal), a
cherished reminder of what it felt like for the war to finally be
over. Everyone who saw the picture wanted to know more about the
nurse and sailor, but Eisenstaedt had no information and a search
for the mysterious couple’s identity took on a dimension of its
own. In 1979 Eisenstaedt thought he had found the long lost nurse.
And as far as almost everyone could determine, he had. For the next
thirty years Edith Shain was known as the woman in the photo of V-J
Day, 1945, Times Square. In 1980 LIFE attempted to determine the
sailor’s identity. Many aging warriors stepped forward with
claims, and experts weighed in to support one candidate over
another. Chaos ensued. For almost two decades Lawrence Verria and
George Galdorisi were intrigued by the controversy surrounding the
identity of the two principals in Eisenstaedt’s most famous
photograph and collected evidence that began to shed light on this
mystery. Unraveling years of misinformation and controversy, their
findings propelled one claimant’s case far ahead of the others
and, at the same time, dethroned the supposed kissed nurse when
another candidate’s claim proved more credible. With this book,
the authors solve the 67-year-old mystery by providing irrefutable
proof to identify the couple in Eisenstaedt’s photo. It is the
first time the whole truth behind the celebrated picture has been
revealed. The authors also bring to light the couple’s and the
photographer’s brushes with death that nearly prevented their
famous spontaneous Times Square meeting in the first place. The
sailor, part of Bull Halsey’s famous task force, survived the
deadly typhoon that took the lives of hundreds of other sailors.
The nurse, an Austrian Jew who lost her mother and father in the
Holocaust, barely managed to escape to the United States.
Eisenstaedt, a World War I German soldier, was nearly killed at
Flanders.
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