Nuclear Dooms
Explore a curated list of books on nuclear doomsday scenarios, from apocalyptic fiction to expert analyses on the threats and impacts of nuclear warfare.
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Twilight World
by Poul Anderson
Mutant births caused by the war's residual radiation convince the remaining normal humans that they must flee to another world in order to survive
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The Long Tomorrow
by Leigh Brackett
In the aftermath of a nuclear war, Americans have come to blame technology for the disaster. The population is scattered into small towns. Cities are …
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The Last Ship
by William Brinkley
In the aftermath of nuclear war, the Navy destroyer "Nathan James" and its crew--including twenty-six women--searches the seas for a place where survival would be …
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Fail Safe
by Eugene Burdick
Something has gone wrong. A group of American bombers armed with nuclear weapons is streaking past the fail-safe point, beyond recall, and no one knows …
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The Folk of the Fringe
by Orson Scott Card
Only a few nuclear weapons fell in America-the weapons that destroyed our nation were biological and, ultimately, cultural. But in the chaos, the famine, the …
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Dr. Bloodmoney
by Philip K. Dick
Dr. Bloodmoney is a post-nuclear-holocaust masterpiece filled with a host of Dick's most memorable characters. Epic and alluring, this brilliant novel is a mesmerizing depiction …
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Resurrection Day
by Brendan DuBois
In 1972, ten years after a nuclear war decimated both the United States and Soviet Union, Carl Landry, a young reporter, searches for the killer …
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Arc Light
by Eric L. Harry
A political thriller by a military expert with extensive first-hand knowledge of the Russian military describes an accidental nuclear holocaust that erupts between Russia and …
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Riddley Walker, Expanded Edition
by Russell Hoban
This acclaimed story is set in an England that has suffered a nuclear holocaust. Society has regressed to an Iron Age, semi-literate state represented by …
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Ape and Essence
by Aldous Huxley
In the year 2108, a rediscovery expedition from New Zealand arrives in a post-nuclear Los Angeles and tries to make sense of what is left …
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Swan Song
by Robert McCammon
An ancient evil roams the desolate landscape of an America ravaged by nuclear war. He is the Man with the Scarlet Eye, a malevolent force …
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A Canticle for Leibowitz
by Walter M. Miller (Jr.)
The winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel, Miller's bestselling work is a true landmark of 20th-century literature--a chilling and still-provocative look at …
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Z for Zachariah
by Robert C. O'Brien
The only one left alive after a nuclear war is a girl and a man who she must beaware of.
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Emergence
by David R. Palmer
After a bionuclear war destroys most of humanity, a young women seeks other survivors.
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The Wild Shore
by Kim Stanley Robinson
2047: For the small Pacific Coast community of San Onofre, life in the aftermath of a devastating nuclear attack is a matter of survival, a …
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On the Beach
by Nevil Shute
A novel about the survivors of an atomic war, who face an inevitable end as radiation poisoning moves toward Australia from the North.
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