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21) The Atomic Cafe
Publisher
Docurama
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
A documentary exploration of the United States government's propaganda promoting the atomic bomb. Relies on film clips of the 1940's and 1950's, including bits and pieces of propoganda films, newsreels, popular songs, and defense training films
22) Plan of attack
Author
Series
Patrick McLanahan novels volume 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
The destruction of a Russian air base by robotic U.S. warplanes has reawakenedthe bear -- and America must pay a terrible price. In retaliation, Russia's leader launches the most devastating military sneak attack since Pearl Harbor, decimating America's strategic air forces. Now an embattled U.S. president must choose between two horrific scenarios: a cease-fire on the enemy's terms ... or respond with every weapon in the nation's arsenal, possibly...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Nuclear war would be an apocalypse. Nuclear deterrence is effective in a crisis. Nuclear weapons shock and awe opponents. Killing civilians causes leaders to back down. The bomb has kept the peace for sixty-five years. These are the things we think we know about nuclear weapons, but it turns out they are myths, myths that nonetheless still shape our nuclear policy. In Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons, Ward Wilson blows the lid off the stale debate...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
For fans of high-concept thrillers such as Annihilation and The Girl with All the Gifts , this breathtaking dystopian psychological thriller follows an American academic stranded at a Swiss hotel as the world descends into nuclear war--along with twenty other survivors--who becomes obsessed with identifying a murderer in their midst after the body of a young girl is discovered in one of the hotel's water tanks. Jon thought he had all the time in the...
25) White smoke
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Natural born leader Victoria Emerson, at the request of the deposed president of the U.S., arrives at the Hilltop Manor bunker where the remnants of the U.S. government have been imprisoned, and must call on her deepest personal resources and her unwavering convictions to restore justice to this broken world.
Author
Series
Strategic Solutions, Inc. thrillers volume 3
Strategic Solutions Inc. thrillers volume 3
Harold Coyle's Strategic Solutions Inc volume 3
Strategic Solutions Inc. thrillers volume 3
Harold Coyle's Strategic Solutions Inc volume 3
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
In this explosive series from New York Times bestseller Harold Coyle and noted military author Barrett Tillman, a new type of war is being fought by private paramilitary companies at the beck and call of the highest bidder. With its military and intelligence agencies spread thin, the United States constantly calls upon the services of these organizations-and Strategic Solutions, Inc. is among the best.
After a few bloody and unprofitable contracts,...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
In the future, most of humanity lives in massive underground bunkers, producing weapons for the nuclear war they've fled. Constantly bombarded by patriotic propaganda, the citizens of these industrial anthills believe they are waiting for the day when the war will be over and they can return aboveground. But when Nick St. James, president of one anthill, makes an unauthorized trip to the surface, what he finds is more shocking than anything he could...
28) Z for Zachariah
Publisher
Grindstone
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Three young people find themselves caught up in a love triangle after a disaster has wiped out most of civilization.
29) The shell game
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Cedar Fort
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
September Eleventh . . . war in Iraq . . . turmoil in the Middle East . . . an impending war with Iran. They have one thing in common: oil. And the world is running out.
The Shell Game is a thrilling novel that faces the end of oil and the next big attack on American soil. This fictional tale resonates with chilling facts from real-life informants in the oil industry and the U.S. government, piecing together the terrifying truth about a nation...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
January 17, 1961: President Eisenhower delivered a speech three days before President-elect Kennedy's inauguration: three days that were the culmination of a lifetime of service that took Eisenhower from rural Kansas to West Point, to the battlefields of World War II, and finally to the Oval Office. As president, Eisenhower--former Supreme Commander of Allied Forces during World War II--guided the U.S. out of war in Korea, through the threat of nuclear...
31) The wall
Author
Series
Publisher
New Directions Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"While vacationing in a hunting lodge in the Austrian mountains, a middle-aged woman awakens one morning to find herself separated from the rest of the world by an invisible wall. With a cat, a dog, and a cow as her sole companions, she learns how to survive and cope with her loneliness. Allegorical yet deeply personal and absorbing, The Wall is at once a critique of modern civilization, a nuanced and loving portrait of a relationship between a woman...
32) On the beach
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Radioactive fallout from a nuclear war has wiped out the entire northern hemisphere, with the exception of Australia. With fallout expected momentarily, the Australians review their lives, establish new relationships and prepare for their tragic demise
Author
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
NO NIGHT LASTS FOREVER...
Centuries after the civilized world destroyed itself in a dimly remembered final war, a few rebels courageously searched through the shattered cities - trying to regain old knowledge.
One was Fors - driven from his clan for the crime of being a mutant. Though his people had long searched the remnants of the old world to regain the knowledge and skills of their ancestors, the land to the north was forbidden. Having nothing...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Packed with startling revelations, this inside look at the secret side of the Cold War exposes just how close America came to total annihilation
During the Cold War, a flight crew had 15 minutes to get their nuke-laden plane in the air from the moment Soviet bombers were detected-15 minutes between the earliest warning of an incoming nuclear strike and the first flash of an enemy warhead. This is the chilling true story of the incredibly risky...
36) Dead hand
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
When an unforeseen asteroid strikes Siberia with the force of a thousand Hiroshimas, it triggers Dead Hand, the ultimate defense mechanism developed by the Soviets at the height of the Cold War.
The missiles are pointing at the United States and its European allies, and ultra-nationalist General Likatchev is willing to use them as blackmail to topple the government in Moscow and return Russia to her status as world power.
When Russia responds to...
37) Burning the sky: Operation Argus and the untold story of the Cold War nuclear tests in outer space
Author
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The summer of 1958 was a nerve-racking time. Ever since the Soviet Union proved that it possessed an operational intercontinental ballistic missile with the launch of Sputnik, the world watched anxiously as the two superpowers engaged in a game of nuclear one-upmanship. Tensions escalated between the United States and the Soviet Union over their respective nuclear weapons reserves, both sides desperate for a solution to the threat of the massive,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
On May 31, 1988, Reagan addressed a packed audience at Moscow State University, with a remarkable -- yet now largely forgotten -- speech that capped his first visit to the Soviet capital. This fourth in a series of summits between Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev was a dramatic coda to their tireless efforts to reduce the nuclear threat. More than that, Reagan viewed it as 'a grand historical moment': an opportunity to light a...
40) The road warrior
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The road warrior: In the post-nuclear outback of Australia, a battle is raged by a tiny band of civilized survivors and a group of barbarians over a precious cache of gasoline
Mad Max beyond Thunderdome: Once again, Mad Max stands alone against the barbarians of a post-nuclear age. This time, Max defends the future--a group of abandoned children--and enters the gladiatorial maces-and-chainsaws combat inside Thunderdome arena
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