William M. Arkin Bücher

After 9/11, the United States government embarked on an unprecedented effort to protect America. The result has been calamitous: after ten years of unparalleled spending and growth, the result is that a system put in place to keep America safe may in fact be putting us in even greater danger-but we don't know because it's all Top Secret. In TOP SECRET AMERICA, award-winning journalists Dana Priest and William M. Arkin lift the curtain on this clandestine universe. From the companies and agencies keeping track of American citizens and the military commanders building America's first "top secret city" to a hidden army within the U.S. military more secret than the CIA, this new national security octopus has become a self-sustaining "Fourth Branch" of government. A tour de force of investigative journalism, TOP SECRET AMERICA presents a fascinating and disturbing account of government run amok and a war on terrorism gone wrong in a post-9/11.

An Extraordinary Series of Books on Nuclear Armaments. This volume is a very important addition to the literature available to the public on the nature and development, the plans, and the size of the U.S. nuclear forces. It will provide an indispensable reference for students and concerned citizens seeking to inform themselves in the most important area of nuclear arms policy. Together with additional volumes that are planned or already in progress, including a collection of information on Soviet forces, this project will provide the basic information that is needed by an informed public that can be a vital and constructive part of the debate on nuclear weapons and arms control policy.

V.1. U.S. Nuclear forces and capabilities [etc.].