Raven Rock
The Story of the U.S. Government's Secret Plan to Save Itself--While the Rest of Us Die
Échec de l'ajout au panier.
Échec de l'ajout à la liste d'envies.
Échec de la suppression de la liste d’envies.
Échec du suivi du balado
Ne plus suivre le balado a échoué
0,99 $/mois pendant vos 3 premiers mois
Acheter pour 29,99 $
-
Narrateur(s):
-
Jacques Roy
-
Auteur(s):
-
Garrett M. Graff
À propos de cet audio
The shocking truth about the government’s secret plans to survive a catastrophic attack on US soil—even if the rest of us die—is “a frightening eye-opener” (Kirkus Reviews) that spans the dawn of the nuclear age to today, and "contains everything one could possibly want to know" (The Wall Street Journal).
Every day in Washington, DC, the blue-and-gold first Helicopter Squadron, codenamed “MUSSEL,” flies over the Potomac River. As obvious as the Presidential motorcade, most people assume the squadron is a travel perk for VIPs. They’re only half right: while the helicopters do provide transport, the unit exists to evacuate high-ranking officials in the event of a terrorist or nuclear attack on the capital. In the event of an attack, select officials would be whisked by helicopters to a ring of secret bunkers around Washington, even as ordinary citizens were left to fend for themselves.
“In exploring the incredible lengths (and depths) that successive administrations have gone to in planning for the aftermath of a nuclear assault, Graff deftly weaves a tale of secrecy and paranoia” (The New York Times Book Review) with details "that read like they've been ripped from the pages of a pulp spy novel" (Vice). For more than sixty years, the US government has been developing secret Doomsday strategies to protect itself, and the multibillion-dollar Continuity of Government (COG) program takes numerous forms—from its potential to evacuate the Liberty Bell from Philadelphia to the plans to launch nuclear missiles from a Boeing-747 jet flying high over Nebraska. Garrett M. Graff sheds light on the inner workings of the 650-acre compound, called Raven Rock, just miles from Camp David, as well as dozens of other bunkers the government built for its top leaders during the Cold War, from the White House lawn to Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado to Palm Beach, Florida, and the secret plans that would have kicked in after a Cold War nuclear attack to round up foreigners and dissidents and nationalize industries. Equal parts a presidential, military, and cultural history, Raven Rock tracks the evolution of the government plan and the threats of global war from the dawn of the nuclear era through the War on Terror.
Vous pourriez aussi aimer...
-
When the Sea Came Alive
- An Oral History of D-Day
- Auteur(s): Garrett M. Graff, A Full Cast
- Narrateur(s): Edoardo Ballerini, Garrett M. Graff
- Durée: 19 h et 42 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global4
-
Performance4
-
Histoire4
Winner of the 2025 Audie Award for Multi-Voiced Performance A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Absolutely gripping.” —The Washington Post “A masterpiece of oral history…stirring, surprising, grim, joyous, moving, and always riveting.” —Evan Thomas From the New York Times...
Auteur(s): Garrett M. Graff, Autres
-
The Doomsday Machine
- Auteur(s): Daniel Ellsberg
- Narrateur(s): Steven Cooper
- Durée: 14 h et 34 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global32
-
Performance29
-
Histoire30
The Doomsday Machine is Ellsberg's hair-raising insider's account of the most dangerous arms buildup in the history of civilization, whose legacy - and renewal under the Obama administration - threatens the very survival of humanity. It is scarcely possible to estimate the true dangers of our present nuclear policies without penetrating the secret realities of the nuclear strategy of the late Eisenhower and early Kennedy years, when Ellsberg had high-level access to them.
-
-
The most important book you'll ever read
- Écrit par Daniel Lipworth le 2021-04-09
Auteur(s): Daniel Ellsberg
-
The Pentagon's Brain
- An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency
- Auteur(s): Annie Jacobsen
- Narrateur(s): Annie Jacobsen
- Durée: 18 h et 22 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global64
-
Performance53
-
Histoire53
Discover the definitive history of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, in this Pulitzer Prize finalist from the author of the New York Times bestseller Area 51. No one has ever written the history of the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful, and most controversial...
-
-
another great listen from Annie Jacobson
- Écrit par TyCB le 2020-07-21
Auteur(s): Annie Jacobsen
-
Collusion
- How Central Bankers Rigged the World
- Auteur(s): Nomi Prins
- Narrateur(s): Ellen Archer
- Durée: 14 h et 30 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global21
-
Performance16
-
Histoire16
In this searing...
-
-
A bit of a misfire
- Écrit par Mike Dixon le 2018-05-19
Auteur(s): Nomi Prins
-
The Life and Writings of C. S. Lewis
- Auteur(s): Louis Markos, The Great Courses
- Narrateur(s): Louis Markos
- Durée: 6 h et 5 min
- Production originale
-
Au global11
-
Performance11
-
Histoire10
What can we still learn from C.S. Lewis? Find out in these 12 insightful lectures that cover the author's spiritual autobiography, novels, and his scholarly writings that reflect on pain and grief, love and friendship, prophecy and miracles, and education and mythology.
-
-
Absolutely loved this!
- Écrit par Winelover le 2024-05-15
Auteur(s): Louis Markos, Autres
-
The Dead Hand
- The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy
- Auteur(s): David Hoffman
- Narrateur(s): Bob Walter
- Durée: 20 h et 46 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global24
-
Performance21
-
Histoire21
“A tour de force of investigative history.” —Steve Coll The Dead Hand is the suspense-filled story of the people who sought to brake the speeding locomotive of the arms race, then rushed to secure the nuclear and biological weapons left behind by the collapse of the Soviet Union—a...
-
-
Exactly as described.
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2023-01-14
Auteur(s): David Hoffman
-
When the Sea Came Alive
- An Oral History of D-Day
- Auteur(s): Garrett M. Graff, A Full Cast
- Narrateur(s): Edoardo Ballerini, Garrett M. Graff
- Durée: 19 h et 42 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global4
-
Performance4
-
Histoire4
Winner of the 2025 Audie Award for Multi-Voiced Performance A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Absolutely gripping.” —The Washington Post “A masterpiece of oral history…stirring, surprising, grim, joyous, moving, and always riveting.” —Evan Thomas From the New York Times...
Auteur(s): Garrett M. Graff, Autres
-
The Doomsday Machine
- Auteur(s): Daniel Ellsberg
- Narrateur(s): Steven Cooper
- Durée: 14 h et 34 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global32
-
Performance29
-
Histoire30
The Doomsday Machine is Ellsberg's hair-raising insider's account of the most dangerous arms buildup in the history of civilization, whose legacy - and renewal under the Obama administration - threatens the very survival of humanity. It is scarcely possible to estimate the true dangers of our present nuclear policies without penetrating the secret realities of the nuclear strategy of the late Eisenhower and early Kennedy years, when Ellsberg had high-level access to them.
-
-
The most important book you'll ever read
- Écrit par Daniel Lipworth le 2021-04-09
Auteur(s): Daniel Ellsberg
-
The Pentagon's Brain
- An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency
- Auteur(s): Annie Jacobsen
- Narrateur(s): Annie Jacobsen
- Durée: 18 h et 22 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global64
-
Performance53
-
Histoire53
Discover the definitive history of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, in this Pulitzer Prize finalist from the author of the New York Times bestseller Area 51. No one has ever written the history of the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful, and most controversial...
-
-
another great listen from Annie Jacobson
- Écrit par TyCB le 2020-07-21
Auteur(s): Annie Jacobsen
-
Collusion
- How Central Bankers Rigged the World
- Auteur(s): Nomi Prins
- Narrateur(s): Ellen Archer
- Durée: 14 h et 30 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global21
-
Performance16
-
Histoire16
In this searing...
-
-
A bit of a misfire
- Écrit par Mike Dixon le 2018-05-19
Auteur(s): Nomi Prins
-
The Life and Writings of C. S. Lewis
- Auteur(s): Louis Markos, The Great Courses
- Narrateur(s): Louis Markos
- Durée: 6 h et 5 min
- Production originale
-
Au global11
-
Performance11
-
Histoire10
What can we still learn from C.S. Lewis? Find out in these 12 insightful lectures that cover the author's spiritual autobiography, novels, and his scholarly writings that reflect on pain and grief, love and friendship, prophecy and miracles, and education and mythology.
-
-
Absolutely loved this!
- Écrit par Winelover le 2024-05-15
Auteur(s): Louis Markos, Autres
-
The Dead Hand
- The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy
- Auteur(s): David Hoffman
- Narrateur(s): Bob Walter
- Durée: 20 h et 46 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global24
-
Performance21
-
Histoire21
“A tour de force of investigative history.” —Steve Coll The Dead Hand is the suspense-filled story of the people who sought to brake the speeding locomotive of the arms race, then rushed to secure the nuclear and biological weapons left behind by the collapse of the Soviet Union—a...
-
-
Exactly as described.
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2023-01-14
Auteur(s): David Hoffman
-
Blood in the Machine
- The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech
- Auteur(s): Brian Merchant
- Narrateur(s): Eric Jason Martin
- Durée: 15 h et 34 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global4
-
Performance4
-
Histoire4
Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year The "rich and gripping" true story of the first time machines came for human jobs—and how the Luddite uprising explains the power, threat, and toll of big tech and AI today (Naomi Klein) The most urgent story in modern tech begins...
-
-
workers of the world unite!
- Écrit par A le 2025-10-09
Auteur(s): Brian Merchant
-
Dark Sun
- The Making Of The Hydrogen Bomb
- Auteur(s): Richard Rhodes
- Narrateur(s): Jacques Roy
- Durée: 28 h et 40 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global1
-
Performance1
-
Histoire1
Here, for the first time, in a brilliant, panoramic portrait by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, is the definitive, often shocking story of the politics and the science behind the development of the hydrogen bomb and the birth of the Cold War. Based on secret...
Auteur(s): Richard Rhodes
-
Command and Control
- Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
- Auteur(s): Eric Schlosser
- Narrateur(s): Scott Brick
- Durée: 20 h et 34 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global100
-
Performance87
-
Histoire87
A myth-shattering exposé of America’s nuclear weapons. Famed investigative journalist Eric Schlosser digs deep to uncover secrets about the management of America’s nuclear arsenal. A groundbreaking account of accidents, near misses, extraordinary heroism, and technological breakthroughs...
-
-
Excellent
- Écrit par grant le 2020-11-27
Auteur(s): Eric Schlosser
-
The Devil Reached Toward the Sky
- An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb
- Auteur(s): Garrett M. Graff
- Narrateur(s): Edoardo Ballerini, A Full Cast, Garrett M. Graff
- Durée: 20 h et 25 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global1
-
Performance1
-
Histoire1
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Magisterial…A stunning account that brings to the fore the nuclear saga’s surreal combination of ingenuity, fate, and terror.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “If you are an intelligent person, or at the very least think you are, you have to...
Auteur(s): Garrett M. Graff
-
The Only Plane in the Sky
- An Oral History of September 11, 2001
- Auteur(s): Garrett M. Graff, Holter Graham
- Narrateur(s): A Full 45-Person Cast
- Durée: 15 h et 55 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global68
-
Performance57
-
Histoire57
2020 AUDIOBOOK OF THE YEAR AUDIE AWARD WINNER! 2020 MULTI-VOICED PERFORMANCE AUDIE AWARD WINNER! Audio bonus! The audio edition includes an exclusive interview with Garrett Graff and Holter Graham as well as archival audio from United States Presidential addresses, In-Flight Communications, and...
-
-
Powerful… I couldn’t stop listening
- Écrit par Lp1964 le 2025-06-22
Auteur(s): Garrett M. Graff, Autres
-
The Marshall Plan
- Dawn of the Cold War
- Auteur(s): Benn Steil
- Narrateur(s): Arthur Morey
- Durée: 16 h et 34 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global3
-
Performance2
-
Histoire2
“[A] brilliant book…by far the best study yet” (The Wall Street Journal) of the gripping history behind the Marshall Plan and its long-lasting influence on our world. In the wake of World War II, with Britain’s empire collapsing and Stalin’s on the rise, US officials under new...
Auteur(s): Benn Steil
-
2034
- A Novel of the Next World War
- Auteur(s): Elliot Ackerman, James Stavridis USN
- Narrateur(s): Emily Woo Zeller, P.J. Ochlan, Vikas Adam, Autres
- Durée: 10 h et 49 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global78
-
Performance65
-
Histoire65
From two former military officers and award-winning authors, a chillingly authentic geopolitical thriller that imagines a naval clash between the US and China in the South China Sea in 2034--and the path from there to a nightmarish global conflagration. On March 12, 2034, US Navy Commodore Sarah...
-
-
A one-star book by a four-star admiral
- Écrit par Peter G le 2021-05-01
Auteur(s): Elliot Ackerman, Autres
-
Skunk Works
- A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed
- Auteur(s): Ben R. Rich, Leo Janos
- Narrateur(s): Pete Larkin
- Durée: 12 h et 8 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global287
-
Performance244
-
Histoire241
This classic history of America's high-stakes quest to dominate the skies is "a gripping technothriller in which the technology is real" (New York Times Book Review). From the development of the U-2 to the Stealth fighter, Skunk Works is the true story of America's most secret and successful...
-
-
A must for aviation buffs
- Écrit par BH le 2018-04-25
Auteur(s): Ben R. Rich, Autres
-
Challenger
- A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
- Auteur(s): Adam Higginbotham
- Narrateur(s): Jacques Roy
- Durée: 17 h et 9 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global17
-
Performance14
-
Histoire14
Winner of the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction Winner of the 2024 Kirkus Nonfiction Prize Shortlisted for the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction A New York Times Notable Book of 2024 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Stunning…A...
-
-
great overview of challenger disaster
- Écrit par A le 2024-08-22
Auteur(s): Adam Higginbotham
-
Nuclear War
- A Scenario
- Auteur(s): Annie Jacobsen
- Narrateur(s): Annie Jacobsen
- Durée: 11 h et 19 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global193
-
Performance162
-
Histoire162
The INSTANT New York Times bestseller Instant Los Angeles Times bestseller Finalist, Dayton Literary Peace Prize One of NPR's Books We Love One of Newsweek Staffers' Favorite Books of the Year Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize “In Nuclear War: A Scenario, Annie Jacobsen gives us a...
-
-
Incredibly effective in its goal
- Écrit par Anon le 2024-04-09
Auteur(s): Annie Jacobsen
-
London
- The Novel
- Auteur(s): Edward Rutherfurd
- Narrateur(s): Andrew Wincott
- Durée: 49 h et 11 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global66
-
Performance57
-
Histoire57
“A TOUR DE FORCE . . . London tracks the history of the English capital from the days of the Celts until the present time. . . . Breathtaking.”—The Orlando Sentinel A master of epic historical fiction, Edward Rutherford gives us a sweeping novel of London, a glorious pageant spanning two...
-
-
Love the story but the narrator ???
- Écrit par Mrs. Joan Braunberger le 2019-06-21
Auteur(s): Edward Rutherfurd
-
F-35
- The Inside Story of the Lightning II
- Auteur(s): Tom Burbage, Betsy Clark, Adrian Pitman, Autres
- Narrateur(s): Rob Reider
- Durée: 17 h et 18 min
- Version intégrale
-
Au global2
-
Performance2
-
Histoire2
F-35 is the only inside look at the most advanced aircraft in the world and the historic project that built it, as told by those who were intimately involved in its design, testing, and production. Based on the authors' personal experience and over 100+ interviews, F-35 pulls back the curtain on one of the most heavily criticized government programs in history from start to finish.
-
-
amazing
- Écrit par Michael le 2024-11-22
Auteur(s): Tom Burbage, Autres
war never changes
Un problème est survenu. Veuillez réessayer dans quelques minutes.