Searching for SF set on earth during the cold war

[Jim]

On the Beach & Alas, Babylon are both post apocalyptic Cold War turns hot novels. Classics, actually.

[Susan]

Andre Norton's time series. They were great. Crossroads of Time, Time Traders, can't remember the others. But the cold war went into the past. Check them out.

[Jim]

Robert A. Heinlein's Sixth Column is an Asian invasion of the US. Farnham's Freehold epitomizes the thinking of the time which makes it fairly rough reading now.

Lucifer's Hammer by Niven & Pournelle is about a comet hitting the Earth, but there is some Cold War action & plenty of attitude.

Dr. Strangelove, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is another Cold War classic. Great movie, too.

[Tony]

James Philip has written a whole series of books developing an alternate history based on the Cuban Missile Crisis starting WWIII. The first is Operation Anadyr. There are over twenty of them so far.

John Birmingham is writing a sequel to his World War 2 trilogy - in which a international naval task force (slightly advanced from our time) is jumped back into WWII. In the sequel, the timeline is moved forward about a decade from the end of the Second World War and the Soviets start World War III. There are also a few short stories set during the early 1950s in that timeline.

[Roger]

Anybody ever read "Trinity's Child"? by Prochnau.

I wouldn't call it sci-fi, but it was a wonderful novel about nuclear war.