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The book covers standard American military protocol in the event of a nuclear first strike against the United States.It particularly highlights launch on warning as a dangerous and potentially catastrophic policy of nuclear armed nations and concludes that any nuclear conflict has the potential to end in near-total human extinction.
Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe (2004) Nuclear War in the UK (2019) Nuclear War Survival Skills (1979) Nuclear Weapons: The Road to Zero (1998) Nukespeak: Nuclear Language, Visions and Mindset (1982) On Nuclear Terrorism (2007) On Thermonuclear War (1960) Our Friend the Atom (1957) The People of Three Mile Island (1980)
The other "substantial" book, Life After Doomsday: A Survivalist Guide to Nuclear War and Other Major Disasters by Bruce D. Clayton, itself is stated to praise and borrow from Nuclear War Survival Skills. The BAS article backhandedly compliments NWSS on its inclusion of features such as "elaborate diagrams for building shelter; testing for ...
The Effects of Nuclear War is a 1978 book commissioned by the United States Office of Technology Assessment to support civilian preparation for nuclear warfare. [1] The book argued that the social effects of a nuclear attack would be unpredictable, and also, that the welfare of society would worsen for years after the attack.
No Place to Hide (Bradley book) Non-Nuclear Futures; Normal Accidents; Not for the Faint of Heart; Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction; Nuclear Implosions; Nuclear Iran: Birth of an Atomic State; Nuclear Nebraska; Nuclear or Not? Nuclear Politics in America; Nuclear Power and the Environment; Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable ...
Nuclear War in the UK is a 2019 non-fiction book by British historian and researcher Taras Young. It is a history of official British public information documents and guidance prepared in case of nuclear attack, drawn from the author's collection. [ 1 ]
David Graham's Down to a Sunless Sea (1979) is a post-apocalyptic novel about a planeload of people during and after a short nuclear war, set in a near-future world where the USA is critically short of oil. The title of the book is taken from a line of the poem Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
The Fate of the Earth is a 1982 book by Jonathan Schell. Its description of the consequences of nuclear war "forces even the most reluctant person to confront the unthinkable: the destruction of humanity and possibly most life on Earth". The work is regarded as a key document in the nuclear disarmament movement. [1] [2]