BOOK #2 U.S. Nuclear Deterrence: The Cold War and Colorado’s Nuclear Weapons Factory
In an extensively researched account seasoned with secrecy and espionage, Hobbs traces the emergence of nuclear technology through the development and testing of the first atomic weapons. Initially intended to crush the WWII Axis powers in Western Europe, atomic weapons were first deployed in the Pacific Ocean theater. But post-WWII events brought an unexpected change in tensions among the Western Allies and U.S.-Soviet relations, in particular.
In late 1948 massive numbers of Soviet tanks and armed forces lined up in Eastern Europe facing a diminished and war-wearied Allied defenses. Stalin continued to amass combat forces and materiel that the Soviet military had prepared for a World War III.
Stalin had been planning this offensive as he fought alongside Allied Forces during World War II. He was waiting for the moment that his increasingly powerful armies could sweep through Western Europe and initiate his visionary communist world domination.
All Stalin needed to do was to give the order for his armored divisions to begin their rapid advance through Western Europe. There was only one thing deterring Stalin: the U.S. had a nuclear arsenal. And they had proven that they were willing to use it.
Stalin knew he couldn’t catch up with U.S. nuclear capabilities even after his scientists had stolen the designs to the first U.S. atomic bombs. U.S. military planners and government officials realized that more nuclear weapons were needed to deter Stalin’s plans for World War III.
The Cold War evolved in an effort to control nuclear weapons technology and assure the U.S. maintained a strategic advantage. A superior U.S. Cold War nuclear capability and Colorado’s Nuclear Weapons Factory were to be that deterrence to an imminent World War III.
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» Paperback: 324 pages
Publisher: Createspace / Kindle Direct Publishing
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-1724543516
Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
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BOOK #1 An Insider’s View of Rocky Flats: Urban Myths Debunked
In a story of secrecy, criminal allegations, and intrigue, the author delivers a personal account of his professional experiences at the Rocky Flats Plant — a government-owned facility located northwest of Denver, Colorado — which produced nuclear weapons components for the U.S. national defense program. In the early part of his career as a research and development chemist at Rocky Flats, the author observed the diligence and camaraderie of colleagues who worked in secrecy to produce the weapons components deemed essential to our nation’s defense program. Later, as an environmental manager, he witnessed the dedication of Rocky Flats workers in protecting themselves, their nearby families, and the local environment by their safe and careful processing, storage and disposal of the hazardous materials and wastes that had been used or generated in fulfilling the Rocky Flats mission.
From its dawn in 1952 until the 1989 raid by FBI and EPA agents alleging environmental crimes, Rocky Flats produced plutonium “triggers” and other nuclear and non-nuclear weapons components considered essential to the nation’s Cold War effort. From 1989 until its final closure in 2005, Rocky Flats was subjected to intense scrutiny by federal and state agencies and grand jury investigations as it struggled to comply with increasingly strict environmental and safety requirements applied to its cleanup and closure efforts.
Even today the legacy of Rocky Flats is unfairly jaded by urban myths, half-truths, and deceptions that continue to be popularized and perpetuated absent factual basis. The purpose of this book is to set the record straight by providing a first-hand account of someone who was there — in the thick of it — and not some imaginative re-creation of some ambitious journalist or wild-eyed federal agent covering his tracks after discovering he had been misled. It explains why Rockwell International — the government’s operating contractor at the time of the raid — eventually pled guilty and paid record fines for self-reported offenses.
The cold truth, in my opinion, is that the Justice Department had to force Rockwell to plead guilty to offenses not treated as criminal in any other situation. Their objective was to protect their reputations after they had been duped into staging a well-publicized raid and conducting a lengthy investigation that found no actual crimes.
The author hopes this accounting will help redefine the Rocky Flats legacy, vindicate and return dignity and respect to those who served the nation’s interest during the Cold War, and provide the missing balance to the Rocky Flats story that perseveres in most popular reports.
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» Paperback: 152 pages
Publisher: CreateSpace/On Demand Publishing
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-1460911471
Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.25 x 0.4 inches
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Language: English
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