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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 — 45,994 ratings — published 2024
On the Beach (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.98 — 49,578 ratings — published 1957
Alas, Babylon (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.09 — 48,539 ratings — published 1959
The Compound (The Compound, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.87 — 24,536 ratings — published 2008
Hiroshima (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.05 — 89,413 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 — 14,523 ratings — published 2013
Z for Zachariah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.68 — 17,837 ratings — published 1974
Swan Song (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.30 — 75,956 ratings — published 1987
A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.99 — 119,368 ratings — published 1959
When the Wind Blows (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,134 ratings — published 1982
Red Alert (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,252 ratings — published 1958
Warday (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.82 — 3,081 ratings — published 1984
Fail-Safe (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.17 — 6,018 ratings — published 1962
Level 7 (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,957 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 — 58,897 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 — 3,214 ratings — published 2018
Resurrection Day (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,350 ratings — published 1999
Down to a Sunless Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.89 — 980 ratings — published 1979
Children of the Dust (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,233 ratings — published 1985
The Last Ship (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.56 — 4,357 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 — 64,811 ratings — published 2019
The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,221 ratings — published 2017
The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.40 — 24,434 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 — 2,763 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 — 199 ratings — published 2010
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,035,909 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 — 2,834,886 ratings — published 1953
The Martian Chronicles (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.16 — 285,714 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 — 1,532 ratings — published 1984
Trinity's Child: A Novel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.00 — 165 ratings — published 1983
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,029 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 — 8,691 ratings — published 1980
One Second After (After, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.98 — 75,745 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 4.58 — 1,183 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 — 1,014 ratings — published 2020
Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,142 ratings — published 2015
The Butter Battle Book (Library Binding)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.15 — 14,556 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 — 4,493 ratings — published 2008
The Sum of All Fears (Jack Ryan, #6)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.08 — 66,668 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 — 4,624 ratings — published 2012
The Long Loud Silence (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.49 — 272 ratings — published 1952
Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse (Wastelands #1)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.76 — 10,659 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 — 11,339 ratings — published 1964
The Wild Shore (Three Californias Triptych, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.74 — 4,218 ratings — published 1984
“Raindrops make rivers and ocean - our deep intention and positive actions will make the world free from nuclear weapons and wars.”
― Nuclear Weapons Free World - Peace on the Earth
― Nuclear Weapons Free World - Peace on the Earth
“In nuclear war, except for the evil forces, no one is a winner. Science and humanity become the villains. Everyone knows that, but the gamblers want to play their cards. Beware of the nuclear gamblers.”
― Nuclear Weapons Free World - Peace on the Earth
― Nuclear Weapons Free World - Peace on the Earth












