検索キーワード： 武器・戦闘

2025年は広島・長崎が核攻撃を受けて80年となる。この人類的な悲劇を背景に「核のタブー」が生み出されてきた。

七三一部隊にとどまらない細菌戦の実態日中戦争のさなか、人体実験や細菌兵器の開発と製造に携わったとされる関東軍防疫給水部、通称七三一部隊。組織の中心にいたのは、部隊長・石井四郎を筆頭とした、日本を代表するエリートたちだった。

Inexplicable lights in the night sky. Mysterious men in black. Flying saucers. For decades, these images and ideas have intrigued and frightened us in equal measure. While humanity has always been curious about the universe and the possibility of life amongst the stars, the mid-20th century saw a sudden explosion in claims of UFO sightings and “evidence” of alien visitors.

A top cybersecurity journalist tells the story behind the virus that sabotaged Iran’s nuclear efforts and shows how its existence has ushered in a new age of warfare—one in which a digital attack can have the same destructive capability as a megaton bomb. “Immensely enjoyable...

General Leslie Groves and J. Robert Oppenheimer were the two men chiefly responsible for the building of the first atomic bomb at Los Alamos, code name The Manhattan Project. As the ranking military officer in charge of marshalling men and material for what was to be the most ambitious, expensive engineering feat in history, it was General Groves who hired Oppenheimer (with knowledge of his left-wing past), planned facilities that would extract the necessary enriched uranium, and saw to it that nothing interfered with the accelerated research and swift assembly of the weapon.

Never Mind, We'll Do It Ourselves is the character-driven story behind the origins of the Predator drone program and the dawn of unmanned warfare. A firsthand account told by an Air Force team leader and a CIA team leader, Never Mind, We'll Do It Ourselves takes the listener into the back offices and secret government hangars where the robotic revolution went from a mad scientist idea to a pivotal part of global air power.

The Shogun's Last Samurai Corps tells the thrilling story of the Shinsengumi - the legendary corps of Samurai warriors tasked with keeping order in Kyoto during the final chaotic years of the Tokugawa Shogunate (1600-1868).

At 9:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, an American bomber pierced the skies over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The single bomb it dropped unleashed an atomic hurricane that toppled homes, vaporized birds in flight, and carbonized humans. Three days later, a second bomb flattened the port city of...

基礎科学の無垢な発見がいかにして大量破壊兵器という後戻りできない歴史の分岐点へと世界を突き動かしたのか、極限状態での人間の意思決定と倫理のせめぎ合いを鮮明に描き出す歴史ドキュメント。通勤の雑踏の中で...

人類の運命を決定づけたマンハッタン計画の背後で、知の探求と破壊の恐怖の間で引き裂かれた天才科学者の倫理的葛藤と孤独。毎日の通勤時間や静かな夜の思索のひとときに、知的好奇心を強く刺激しながら、歴史の激...

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...

歴史の転換点は、大部隊の激突だけでなく、孤独な狙撃手が放つ一発の弾丸と緻密な戦術によって静かに塗り替えられてきました。深い集中を求める夜や、一人の静かな通勤時間など、内省的なムードに浸りたい時に、極...

人類を絶滅の危機に陥れた疫病を軍事利用するという狂気的な軍事戦略の歴史を紐解き、現代社会に潜む見えない脅威の全体像を浮き彫りにする。なぜ人間は、自然の恐怖であるペストを破壊の道具に変えようとしてしま...

「敵が先に核兵器を手にしたら」という底知れぬ恐怖が、人類史上最大の極秘軍事プロジェクトを加速させた歴史ノンフィクション。通勤や移動の限られた時間であっても、圧倒的な緊迫感とともにあなたを20世紀最大の...

純粋な科学の探求はいかにして人類史上最も破壊的な国家プロジェクトへと変貌したのか、マンハッタン計画と原子爆弾の軌跡を紐解く濃密な歴史ノンフィクション。複雑な世界史の転換点をわずか2時間で立体的に把握...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Do tough times create tougher people? Can humanity handle the power of its weapons without destroying itself? Will human technology ever peak or regress? And why, since the dawn of time, has it always seemed as though death and destruction are waiting just around...

Hiroshima was one of the great tragedies of WWII. But out of the devastation of the first atomic bomb, some survivors emerged, 25 courageous Japanese women who became part of a remarkable humanitarian epic. Victims of the atomic blast that ushered in the Nuclear Age, these women were brought to the United States in 1955, where they underwent reconstructive surgery to repair the ravages of the bomb. Schoolgirls when the bomb destroyed their futures, they began to remake their lives and re-create themselves. This is the compassionate, often bittersweet chronicle of the Hiroshima Maidens.

Atoms and Ashes recounts the dramatic history of nuclear accidents that have dogged the industry in its military and civil incarnations since the 1950s. Through the stories of six terrifying major incidents—Bikini Atoll, Kyshtym, Windscale, Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima—Cold War expert Serhii Plokhy explores the risks of nuclear power, both for military and peaceful purposes, while offering a vivid account of how individuals and governments make decisions under extraordinary circumstances.

The world's foremost intellectual activist narrates his irrefutable analysis of America's pursuit of total domination and the catastrophic consequences that are sure to follow. "Reading Chomsky today is sobering and instructive . . . He is a global phenomenon . . . perhaps the most widely read...

**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award** The definitive history of nuclear weapons—from the turn-of-the-century discovery of nuclear energy to J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project—this epic work details the science, the...