In their initial effort to end the Vietnam War, Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger attempted to lever concessions from Hanoi at the negotiating table with military force and coercive diplomacy. They were not seeking military victory, which they did not believe was feasible. Instead, they backed up their diplomacy toward North Vietnam and the Soviet Union with the Madman Theory of threatening excessive force, which included the specter of nuclear force. They began with verbal threats then bombed North Vietnamese and Viet Cong base areas in Cambodia, signaling that there was more to come. As the bombing expanded, they launched a previously unknown mining ruse against Haiphong, stepped-up their warnings to Hanoi and Moscow, and initiated planning for a massive shock-and-awe military operation referred to within the White House inner circle as DUCK HOOK. Beyond the mining of North Vietnamese ports and selective bombing in and around Hanoi, the initial DUCK HOOK concept included proposals for "tactical" nuclear strikes against logistics targets and U.S. and South Vietnamese ground incursions into the North. In early October 1969, however, Nixon aborted planning for the long-contemplated operation. He had been influenced by Hanoi's defiance in the face of his dire threats and concerned about U.S. public reaction, antiwar protests, and internal administration dissent. In place of DUCK HOOK, Nixon and Kissinger launched a secret global nuclear alert in hopes that it would lend credibility to their prior warnings and perhaps even persuade Moscow to put pressure on Hanoi. It was to be a "special reminder" of how far President Nixon might go. The risky gambit failed to move the Soviets, but it marked a turning point in the administration's strategy for exiting Vietnam. Nixon and Kissinger became increasingly resigned to a "long-route" policy of providing Saigon with a "decent chance" of survival for a "decent interval" after a negotiated settlement and U.S. forces left Indochina. Burr and Kimball draw upon extensive research in participant interviews and declassified documents to offer a history that holds important lessons for the present and future about the risks and uncertainties of nuclear threat making.

Considered "among the most important Cold War records to emerge thus far" by the former Beijing bureau chief of the "New York Times, The Kissinger Transcripts" gives readers the unvarnished record of Henry Kissinger's diplomacy during the Nixon years.

Boats require constant care. Any boater who doesn't know the difference between a silicone-modified alkyd enamel and a one-part urethane needs this book for its invaluable advice on: * How to save money with generic substitues * Product recommendations for every job * Keeping weekly, monthly, and seasonal maintenance schedules

Special Publication 800-57 provides cryptographic key management guidance. It consists of three parts. Part 1 provides general guidance and best practices for the management of cryptographic keying material. Part 2 provides guidance on policy and security planning requirements for U.S. government agencies. Finally, Part 3 provides guidance when using the cryptographic features of current systems.

This Recommendation provides cryptographic key management guidance. It consists of three parts. Part 1 provides general guidance and best practices for the management of cryptographic keying material. Part 2 provides guidance on policy and security planning requirements for U.S. government agencies. Finally, Part 3 provides guidance when using the cryptographic features of current systems.

Jonny, along with his Siamese cat, Mister E, discovers a magical icon on his Nexus 7 tablet, an icon that when opened, allows them to time travel into the future. The Atlanta they arrive in is nothing like the one they left. It is a city made of glass because hundreds of years of drought have caused all growing things to die. All oil is gone so there are no plastic products. All mining has been depleted so there is no metal. Only sand is left out of which glass is produced and used for houses, furniture, toys, and flying cars. Mister E, strangely, has been transformed by time travel into a huge cat the size of a lion and can speak. Jonny and Mister E rescue Cindi, a young girl running from her mean stepfather. Adventure after adventure follow as the three of them try to escape mutated outlanders, her angry father, and the hated pet police before making a lifesaving time jump to ....

After the loss of his wife and child in an auto accident, alcohol and depression propel Ben Crowley to the bottom. Ten years of recovery and we find him still searching for answers as captain of a seventy foot Island schooner in the South Pacific. One adventure follows another as he works his way back up life's ladder. Temptation and awakened desire coincide with diving expeditions in Truk Lagoon as he renews life among his new friends, the native Polynesians. A must read for those with a touch of vagabond in their hearts.

Two and a half million years ago, a huge, mastodon died trying to escape a predator. Frozen in Antarctica's ice until global warming calves a huge ice berg and exposes it, the mastodon is discovered by research scientist, Nancy Morales. She recruits the help of world famous, Skip Gonzalas, a forensic expert with LAPD, to uncover its secrets, discoveries that lead to additional archaeological finds even more startling. Carvings on these objects reveal messages millions of years old, thousands of centuries before man inhabited Earth. Who or what wrote them and what do they mean? The US government, prodded by NSA, uses its resources to smother the discoveries with lies, disinformation, and terror tactics. Nancy and Skip hide themselves and their evidence in a race against time. Mastodon is a science fiction thriller revealing the depths a government will stoop to in order to inflict its political aims on public opinion.

Escape is a vivid historical novel about Daniel, a Jewish man, who lived under the protection of a Catholic monsignor in Greece during the war, hidden from the Nazis, and sent away as the country turns chaotic prior to the end of the European war. Faction fights faction, all to the disadvantage of the Jews who, one way or another, survived WWII amid anarchy. He meets Sofia, another escaping Jew, and by chance assume the role of priest and nun. Uruguay becomes their destination and they, as clergy, are accepted as useful by escaped Nazis who lust for a new order they call the Fourth Reich. Never knowing who is friend or foe, they fight to stay alive in an atmosphere of deceit and intrigue. With Daniel and Sofia's help, escaped war criminals, Adolf Eichmann, Heinrich Muller, and Odilo Globocnik are discovered hiding in Uruguay. They advise agents of Israel's Mossad who sprit them away to Tel Aviv. Justice is served as all are swept into a battle between good and evil.

Sent by wealthy American Jews, Benjamin travels to neutral Switzerland during WWII to find evidence of the holocaust. On his journey, he meets Raif and Rachael of Britain's intelligence service who recruit him to find out how the Germans get gold out of Nazi occupied countries and converted to Swiss Francs; currency desperately needed by the Nazis to secretly buy essential war supplies. Once in Basel, Switzerland, Benjamin meets other Jews who help him in his cause. Nazi sympathizers steal his passport, money, and threaten his life. He runs with a group of Jewish escapees who trek across the Alps to freedom. High adventure at 10,000 feet, blizzards, death, and redemption follow his footsteps through the snow. Romance and love cloud his mission but clarify his life.

New Guinea, occupied by the Japanese during World War II, became an essential source of rubber for Japan's war effort. Forcing more and more production of rubber from the Dutch plantation owners and their native workers, the Japanese created an environment of fear, reprisals, and death. Both native workers and white families fled to the hills to fight the Japanese with machete's, knives, and their bare hands. It wasn't until, Jokuri, the young son of the Volstead plantation's native overseer, rebelled, and joined the guerrillas in the mountains that the rebels became a fighting force that the Japanese had trouble containing. Love blossoms and racial taboos threaten as the Dutch and natives fight the Japanese and try to survive in this lonely outpost of war in the jungles of the South Pacific.

This compilation of four children's fantasy books (also sold individually) follows Jonny, an eight year old boy of enormous curiosity as he downloads a free App onto his Nexus 7 tablet (Book One). Though mystified by its all-black icon, he clicks on it, and is addressed by name and told to gather up his Siamese cat, Mister E, climb into the animal's huge litter box, and get ready for the ride of his life. At first, Jonny resists then his curiosity makes him follow the mysterious instructions. Moments later, he and his cat, awaken four hundred years in the future where they rescue, Cindi, a young girl who is being sent to jail for owning a pet. After many harrowing adventures, they time travel (Book Two) to a pirate ship in the year 1481 where they are forced to assist on a raid against an unsuspecting town on the Island of Tortuga. Escaping, after a shipwreck and isolation on a deserted island, they time travel to a tiny, water starved planet in the Orion cluster two thousand years in the future (Book Three). This series of four books closes with a time jump back home to Atlanta in 2013 and concluding with another fantastic voyage to the planet Daedeleus in the Andromeda constellation 7000 years into the future and 900 light years from Earth (Book Four). Always confronting beings who are threatened by their unexpected arrival, they explore the universe, helping those in need, aiding the oppressed, and attempting to right the wrongs they encounter. Laced with humor and farsighted imagination, this series of children's fantasy books are well suited for the inquisitive minds of school aged readers.

Jonny, his Siamese cat, Mister E, and their young friend, Cindi, wake up from a time travel jump on a space ship bound for the planet Ilo in the Orion cluster. It is the year 3999. They are discovered by the pilot, EG 7714, who is happy to have them as company but terrified of what his superiors will do when stowaways are found on his ship. Traveling at speeds beyond comprehension, it takes only weeks to span 900 light years from Earth to Ilo. Arrested as aliens, they are tried and convicted, narrowly escape, and have many harrowing adventures trying to get back to where they had hidden the magical litter box needed for a return to Earth. Will Jonny's Nexus 7 tablet and the magic litter box work from such an unfathomable distance and 2000 years in the future to get them back home to Atlanta in 2013?

Jonny, his Siamese cat, Mister E, and Cindi, a young girl they had befriended on a previous trip to the future, wake up after a time jump from the Orion cluster and the year 3999. Dazed and frightened from such a huge jump in time and space, they wander down city streets which look to Jonny like his neighborhood in 2013 just where he wanted to go. Happily reunited with his mother, she and Jonny teach Cindi about Christmas which had been discarded in her civilization four hundred years in the future. They go Christmas shopping, buy a tree which makes her cry at seeing a living thing cut down, and go to a Christmas pageant at church. After opening presents, they go out on their new bike and scooter. Cindi falls and gets hurt. A man comes from his house and helps. His name is Zirnat, the Fourteenth. He tells them he is the inventor of the magical icon and had secretly given it to Jonny because he was too old to travel any more in space. At his request, Jonny, Cindi, and Mister E take a time jump to Zirnat's home planet in the Andromeda cluster where they meet his sister on her wedding day. Discovered as forbidden time travelers, they are helped by his sister to escape, recover the magic litter box, and time travel to ....

Tommy, a curious eight year old boy, wakes to find a little, green person stuck to his ceiling and staring sadly down at him. It is his Looper, one of the little people who put dreams in boys and girls heads while they sleep. But, the little, green Looper is sad because he has forgotten all his stories and so have all the other Loopers. Tommy promises to help them. They have many escapades looking for a way to solve this difficult task while a worried Mom and a mad scientist make success problematic. Their adventures test Tommy and the Looper's faith and belief in themselves. The Forgetful Loopers is a charming story suitable for grades 1 - 4.

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