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Shadow on the Hearth by Judith Merril (1950) – a novel about a traditional housewife's ordeals in the aftermath of nuclear attack; The Shannara Series, by Terry Brooks; The Silo Series by Hugh Howey (2011) – A nuclear exchange is used to cover up a nano-bot attack. Single Combat by Dean Ing (second in the Ted Quantril trilogy)
Pages in category "Novels about nuclear war and weapons" The following 46 pages are in this category, out of 46 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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 book contains a brief non-fiction afterword by U.S. Navy Captain William Sanders, regarding EMPs, which includes references to the reports of the United States EMP Commission [3] and the book The Effects of Nuclear Weapons by Samuel Glasstone and Philip J. Dolan, published by the United States Department of Defense, [4] which is a technical ...
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)
Video games about nuclear war and weapons (3 C, 72 P) Pages in category "Fiction about nuclear war and weapons" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total.
The book received positive reviews, with Julian Borger of The Guardian comparing it to nuclear war stories Dr. Strangelove and On the Beach. [6] The Economist observed that "The terrifying thing about “The 2020 Commission Report” is how much of it is real". [7] The Los Angeles Review of Books described it as "the gut punch everyone needs". [4]
It is a fictional account of the authors travelling across the U.S. five years after a limited nuclear attack in order to assess how the nation has changed after the war. [2] The novel takes the form of a first-person narrative research article [3] and includes government documents, interviews with survivors and aid workers, and present-tense ...