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Red Alert is a 1958 novel by Peter George about nuclear war. The book provided the underlying narrative structure for Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. [1] Kubrick's film differs significantly from the novel in that the film is a black comedy.
An action strategy game for the Apple II, where the player defends the United States against a nuclear attack. [9] [10] Nuclear Throne: 2015 A twin-stick shooter roguelike following a group of mutants in a nuclear wasteland Nuclear War: 1989 A turn-based strategy game for Amiga and DOS NukeWar: 1980
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Apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of civilization due to a potentially existential catastrophe such as nuclear warfare, pandemic, extraterrestrial attack, impact event, cybernetic revolt, technological singularity, dysgenics, supernatural phenomena, divine judgment, climate change, resource depletion or some other general disaster.
The Last Ship is a 1988 post-apocalyptic fiction novel by American writer William Brinkley. The Last Ship tells the story of a United States Navy guided missile destroyer, the fictional USS Nathan James, on patrol in the Barents Sea during a brief, full-scale nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union.
Dr. Strangelove parodies Cold War fears of a nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union and stars George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens, and Tracy Reed. The story concerns an insane brigadier general of the United States Air Force who orders a pre-emptive nuclear attack on the Soviet Union.
In Single Combat, Quantrill joins the resistance against President Young's increasingly theocratic Mormons and the maquis succeed in overthrowing him. In Wild Country, Quantrill has become a US marshal on the border between an enlarged Mexico and post-apocalyptic Texas, but anarchic elements still persist in the area, which he must curtail.
This is a list of books about nuclear issues. They are non-fiction books which relate to uranium mining, nuclear weapons and/or nuclear power. The Algebra of Infinite Justice (2001) American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (2005) The Angry Genie: One Man's Walk Through the Nuclear Age (1999)