From my Cold War primary source shelves: J. Edgar Hoover’s Masters of Deceit (1958) replete with high school student scholarship contest! #history#ColdWar#books#America#Communism
#OnThisDay in 1980, six terrorists took over the #IranianEmbassy in #London, taking 26 hostages, just a day after the Metropolitan Police assured the Iranians that there was no threat.
My book, Operation Nimrod, covers the siege and the dramatic assault by the #SAS, dispelling the myths.
The ebook version is currently just £0.99/$0.99/€0.99 It's also available in paperback, hardback, and large print.
"Unstable nuclear-waste dams threaten fertile Central Asia heartland"
"Dams holding vast amounts of uranium mine tailings above the fertile Fergana valley in Central Asia are unstable, threatening a possible Chernobyl-scale nuclear disaster if they collapse that would make the region uninhabitable, studies have revealed."
This is what the former Soviet nuclear submarine «Komsomolets» looks like – 30 years after it sank in the Norwegian Sea. The submarine lies on a depth of nearly 1700 metres, and it was filmed by the ROV «Ægir 6000» on July 7th 2019.
Read about the findings: hi.no/en/hi/news/2019/july/researchers-discovered-leak-from-komsomolets