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Vinyl LP pressing. Atomic, the new album by Scottish experimental rock legends Mogwai, is composed of reworked versions of the music recorded for the soundtrack to director Mark Cousins' acclaimed documentary Atomic: Living In Dread and Promise, which first aired on BBC Four last summer. Constructed entirely of archive film, Atomic is an impressionistic kaleidoscope of the horrors of our nuclear times - protest marches, Cold War sabre-rattling, Chernobyl and Fukishima - but also the sublime beau

Invited lectures and progress reports from the September 1993 Summer School and International Symposium on the Physics of Ionized Gases in Belgrade; a second volume collects papers on low-temperature and general plasmas, the other topics of the symposium. The seven covering atomic collisions discuss such aspects as an optical potential approach to

"A timely and unsparing account of how U.S. nuclear test policies were guided and executed in the early years of the atomic age. At its most compelling, Atomic Soldiers tells what became of a man who was made a pawn in a long-ago dress rehearsal for nuclear war."-Alan Cranston, U.S. Senator During the summer of 1957, Army Corporal Russell Jack Dann was marched to a desert hilltop in Nevada and ordered to watch while an atomic device four times the size of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima was detonated just 4,500 yards away. The story of what that mission did to Dann, and to nearly 300,000 other American soldiers who were exposed to low-level radiation during the 1950s nuclear test blasts, is the focus of this astonishing report. Without hair, or teeth, deaf in one ear, a sterile quadriplegic with leukopenia, Dann is waging a losing battle for compensation from the Veteran's Administration which refuses to acknowledge the connection between nuclear radiation and his disabilities. One of the century's most appalling horror stories, Atomic Soldiers raises questions about both atomic weapons and nuclear power that are crucial to the future of our society. "Anyone who starts this book will not put it down before reading it from cover to cover. The reader meets in flesh and blood the young military men who became guinea pigs and finally victims of one of the saddest misuses of government in history."-John Gofman, M.D., Ph.D., Chairman, Committee for Nuclear Responsibility

Invited lectures and progress reports from the September 1993 Summer School and International Symposium on the Physics of Ionized Gases in Belgrade; a second volume collects papers on low-temperature and general plasmas, the other topics of the symposium. The seven covering atomic collisions discuss such aspects as an optical potential approach to

"A timely and unsparing account of how U.S. nuclear test policies were guided and executed in the early years of the atomic age. At its most compelling, Atomic Soldiers tells what became of a man who was made a pawn in a long-ago dress rehearsal for nuclear war."-Alan Cranston, U.S. Senator During the summer of 1957, Army Corporal Russell Jack Dann was marched to a desert hilltop in Nevada and ordered to watch while an atomic device four times the size of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima was detonated just 4,500 yards away. The story of what that mission did to Dann, and to nearly 300,000 other American soldiers who were exposed to low-level radiation during the 1950s nuclear test blasts, is the focus of this astonishing report. Without hair, or teeth, deaf in one ear, a sterile quadriplegic with leukopenia, Dann is waging a losing battle for compensation from the Veteran's Administration which refuses to acknowledge the connection between nuclear radiation and his disabilities. One of the century's most appalling horror stories, Atomic Soldiers raises questions about both atomic weapons and nuclear power that are crucial to the future of our society. "Anyone who starts this book will not put it down before reading it from cover to cover. The reader meets in flesh and blood the young military men who became guinea pigs and finally victims of one of the saddest misuses of government in history."-John Gofman, M.D., Ph.D., Chairman, Committee for Nuclear Responsibility

In the summer of 1941, an elite German commando squad is ordered to climb the Eiger Mountain--high in the Swiss Alps--and abduct a distinguished scientist (and his secret of the atomic bomb) from an OSS-defended laboratory

Two ambitious men. One historic mission.With a blinding flash in the New Mexico desert in the summer of 1945, the world was changed forever. The bomb that ushered in the atomic age was the product of one of history's most improbable partnerships. The General and the Genius reveals how two extraordinary men pulled off the greatest scientific feat of the twentieth century. Leslie Richard Groves of the Army Corps of Engineers, who had made his name by building the Pentagon in record time and under budget, was made overlord of the impossibly vast scientific enterprise known as the Manhattan Project. His mission: to beat the Nazis to the atomic bomb. So he turned to the nation's preeminent theoretical physicist, J. Robert Oppenheimer—the chain-smoking, martini-quaffing son of wealthy Jewish immigrants, whose background was riddled with communist associations—Groves's opposite in nearly every respect. In their three-year collaboration, the iron-willed general and the visionary scientist led a brilliant team in a secret mountaintop lab and built the fearsome weapons that ended the war but introduced the human race to unimaginable new terrors. And at the heart of this most momentous work of World War II is the story of two extraordinary men—the general and the genius.

EU-only five CD set. This superb collection compiles all existing live recordings made by the Atomic Band at the Crescendo Club, in Hollywood, in the summer of 1958, for the first time ever on a single edition. The sound quality is excellent throughout the set. Count Basie's career was revived in late 1957 thanks to the success of the Neal Hefti-arranged LP Atomic Basie, which became one of his biggest hits. The orchestra was filled with stars, and Joe Williams' vocals were heard to great effect