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Nuclear War: A Scenario (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.35 — 56,475 ratings — published 2024
Alas, Babylon (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.09 — 49,478 ratings — published 1959
On the Beach (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.99 — 51,615 ratings — published 1957
The Compound (The Compound, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.87 — 24,834 ratings — published 2008
Swan Song (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.30 — 78,852 ratings — published 1987
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 — 15,025 ratings — published 2013
Z for Zachariah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.68 — 18,305 ratings — published 1974
Hiroshima (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.06 — 93,071 ratings — published 1946
When the Wind Blows (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,351 ratings — published 1982
A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.99 — 123,857 ratings — published 1959
Red Alert (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,299 ratings — published 1958
Warday (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.82 — 3,127 ratings — published 1984
Fail-Safe (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.17 — 6,114 ratings — published 1962
Level 7 (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,995 ratings — published 1959
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.30 — 62,667 ratings — published 2005
The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,345 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 — 3,339 ratings — published 2018
Resurrection Day (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,382 ratings — published 1999
Down to a Sunless Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.89 — 998 ratings — published 1979
Children of the Dust (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,294 ratings — published 1985
The Last Ship (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.56 — 4,475 ratings — published 1988
The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.41 — 25,201 ratings — published 1986
The 40-Minute War (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.88 — 205 ratings — published 1980
The Wizards of Armageddon (Stanford Nuclear Age Series)
by (shelved 5 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.13 — 308 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 — 3,156 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 — 71,033 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 3.91 — 2,949 ratings — published 2017
The Fate of the Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.94 — 306 ratings — published 1982
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,986,336 ratings — published 1963
The Martian Chronicles (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.16 — 293,610 ratings — published 1950
Brother in the Land (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,584 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 — 1,941 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 — 8,954 ratings — published 1980
One Second After (After, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.98 — 78,971 ratings — published 2009
Yol (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,086,596 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 3.98 — 1,289 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 — 1,041 ratings — published 2020
Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,209 ratings — published 2015
The Butter Battle Book (Library Binding)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.15 — 14,724 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 — 4,617 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 — 4,825 ratings — published 2012
The Long Loud Silence (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.49 — 282 ratings — published 1952
Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse (Wastelands #1)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.76 — 10,775 ratings — published 2008
The Last Israelis (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.67 — 481 ratings — published 2012
The Penultimate Truth (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.78 — 11,805 ratings — published 1964
The Wild Shore (Three Californias Triptych, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.74 — 4,356 ratings — published 1984
The Postman (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.89 — 38,080 ratings — published 1985
“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
“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
