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Nuclear War Books
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Nuclear War: A Scenario (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.37 — 45,289 ratings — published 2024
On the Beach (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.98 — 49,441 ratings — published 1957
Alas, Babylon: The Classic Apocalyptic Novel of Courage, Survival, and Determination After Nuclear Holocaust (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.09 — 48,476 ratings — published 1959
The Compound (The Compound, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.87 — 24,516 ratings — published 2008
Hiroshima (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.05 — 89,139 ratings — published 1946
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.27 — 14,482 ratings — published 2013
Z for Zachariah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.68 — 17,801 ratings — published 1974
Swan Song (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.30 — 75,804 ratings — published 1987
A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.99 — 119,114 ratings — published 1959
When the Wind Blows (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,119 ratings — published 1982
Red Alert (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,251 ratings — published 1958
Warday (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.82 — 3,076 ratings — published 1984
Fail-Safe (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.17 — 6,017 ratings — published 1962
Level 7 (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,955 ratings — published 1959
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.31 — 58,627 ratings — published 2005
The 2020 Commission Report On The North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against The United States: A Speculative Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.16 — 3,209 ratings — published 2018
Resurrection Day (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,348 ratings — published 1999
Down to a Sunless Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.89 — 979 ratings — published 1979
Children of the Dust (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,229 ratings — published 1985
The Last Ship (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.56 — 4,347 ratings — published 1988
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.37 — 64,490 ratings — published 2019
The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,212 ratings — published 2017
The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.40 — 24,388 ratings — published 1986
Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government’s Secret Plan to Save Itself — While the Rest of Us Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.91 — 2,756 ratings — published 2017
The 40-Minute War (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.88 — 203 ratings — published 1980
How the End Begins: The Road to a Nuclear World War III (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.54 — 198 ratings — published 2010
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,032,382 ratings — published 2006
The Fate of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.94 — 304 ratings — published 1982
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,822,226 ratings — published 1953
The Martian Chronicles (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.16 — 285,173 ratings — published 1950
The Wizards of Armageddon (Stanford Nuclear Age Series)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.13 — 290 ratings — published 1983
Brother in the Land (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,531 ratings — published 1984
Trinity's Child: A Novel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.99 — 164 ratings — published 1983
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,024 ratings — published 1995
This Is The Way The World Ends (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,906 ratings — published 1986
Long Voyage Back (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.72 — 455 ratings — published 1983
Riddley Walker (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,678 ratings — published 1980
One Second After (After, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.98 — 75,540 ratings — published 2009
The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.57 — 1,099 ratings — published 2025
The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,010 ratings — published 2020
Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,137 ratings — published 2015
The Butter Battle Book (Library Binding)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.15 — 14,550 ratings — published 1984
One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.24 — 4,487 ratings — published 2008
The Sum of All Fears (Jack Ryan, #6)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.08 — 66,589 ratings — published 1991
Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,616 ratings — published 2012
The Long Loud Silence (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.49 — 271 ratings — published 1952
Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse (Wastelands #1)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.76 — 10,651 ratings — published 2008
The Last Israelis (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.66 — 476 ratings — published 2012
The Penultimate Truth (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.78 — 11,307 ratings — published 1964
The Wild Shore (Three Californias Triptych, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.74 — 4,212 ratings — published 1984
“If we moronic human beings destroy ourselves and go extinct, then we'll have deserved this far more than ever; even a mosquito would.”
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“The mother can use a knife in the kitchen to chop vegetables and make a healthy meal, but if you give a knife to a child and the child accidentally injures himself, is it the fault of the knife! The same is with us humans and our nukes. Developing nukes is part of the external progress that I just mentioned a while ago, whereas being aware of how to use them would require internal progress, which unfortunately is happening at the speed of a turtle, because almost all humans have quite childishly accepted external progress to be the ultimate progress of humanity.”
― Saint of The Sapiens
― Saint of The Sapiens
