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Nuclear War Books
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Nuclear War: A Scenario (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.36 — 52,714 ratings — published 2024
Alas, Babylon (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.09 — 49,133 ratings — published 1959
On the Beach (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.98 — 50,886 ratings — published 1957
The Compound (The Compound, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.87 — 24,731 ratings — published 2008
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 — 14,857 ratings — published 2013
Z for Zachariah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.68 — 18,128 ratings — published 1974
Hiroshima (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.06 — 91,823 ratings — published 1946
Swan Song (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.30 — 77,673 ratings — published 1987
When the Wind Blows (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,286 ratings — published 1982
A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.99 — 122,150 ratings — published 1959
Red Alert (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,287 ratings — published 1958
Warday (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.82 — 3,103 ratings — published 1984
Fail-Safe (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.17 — 6,082 ratings — published 1962
Level 7 (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,980 ratings — published 1959
The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,314 ratings — published 2017
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 4.15 — 3,287 ratings — published 2018
Resurrection Day (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,375 ratings — published 1999
Down to a Sunless Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.89 — 993 ratings — published 1979
Children of the Dust (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,275 ratings — published 1985
The Last Ship (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.56 — 4,411 ratings — published 1988
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.30 — 61,235 ratings — published 2005
The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.40 — 24,937 ratings — published 1986
The 40-Minute War (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.88 — 204 ratings — published 1980
The Wizards of Armageddon (Stanford Nuclear Age Series)
by (shelved 5 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.12 — 301 ratings — published 1983
How the End Begins: The Road to a Nuclear World War III (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.53 — 202 ratings — published 2010
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,104 ratings — published 1995
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.36 — 68,458 ratings — published 2019
Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government’s Secret Plan to Save Itself — While the Rest of Us Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,889 ratings — published 2017
The Fate of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.94 — 308 ratings — published 1982
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,927,981 ratings — published 1963
The Martian Chronicles (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.16 — 290,563 ratings — published 1950
Brother in the Land (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,572 ratings — published 1984
Trinity's Child: A Novel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.99 — 170 ratings — published 1983
This Is The Way The World Ends (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,929 ratings — published 1986
Long Voyage Back (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.72 — 459 ratings — published 1983
Riddley Walker (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,836 ratings — published 1980
One Second After (After, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.98 — 77,843 ratings — published 2009
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,067,619 ratings — published 2006
Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell About the End of the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,228 ratings — published 2024
The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,026 ratings — published 2020
Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,190 ratings — published 2015
The Butter Battle Book (Library Binding)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.15 — 14,692 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 4.25 — 4,575 ratings — published 2008
Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,748 ratings — published 2012
The Long Loud Silence (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.49 — 280 ratings — published 1952
Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse (Wastelands #1)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.76 — 10,731 ratings — published 2008
The Last Israelis (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.67 — 479 ratings — published 2012
The Penultimate Truth (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.78 — 11,655 ratings — published 1964
The Wild Shore (Three Californias Triptych, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.74 — 4,307 ratings — published 1984
The Postman (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.89 — 37,891 ratings — published 1985
“We may see a nuclear war before we die. It is only a matter of time before a nuclear bomb is detonated in war. Wiping a warring city off the map with one bomb would be a clear statement to the world, as it was in 1945.”
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“The white flashed back into a red ball in the southeast. They all knew what it was. It was Orlando, or McCoy Base, or both. It was the power supply for Timucuan County.
Thus the lights went out, and in that moment civilization in Fort Repose retreated a hundred years.
So ended The Day.”
― Alas, Babylon
Thus the lights went out, and in that moment civilization in Fort Repose retreated a hundred years.
So ended The Day.”
― Alas, Babylon
