Download or read book Defusing Armageddon: Inside NEST, America's Secret Nuclear Bomb Squad written by Jeffrey Richelson and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2009-02-02 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the workings of America's top-secret government agency to safeguard against nuclear terrorist attacks, documenting its creation in 1974 through its present-day operations involving threats against major cities, surveillance of sleeper sites in the U.S., and efforts to prevent nuclear technology from falling into enemy hands. 13,000 first printing.