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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 — 52,024 ratings — published 2024
Alas, Babylon (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.09 — 49,041 ratings — published 1959
On the Beach (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.98 — 50,729 ratings — published 1957
The Compound (The Compound, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.87 — 24,713 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 — 14,833 ratings — published 2013
Z for Zachariah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.68 — 18,084 ratings — published 1974
Hiroshima (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.06 — 91,504 ratings — published 1946
Swan Song (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.30 — 77,460 ratings — published 1987
When the Wind Blows (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,273 ratings — published 1982
A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.99 — 121,792 ratings — published 1959
Red Alert (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,286 ratings — published 1958
Warday (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.82 — 3,099 ratings — published 1984
Fail-Safe (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.17 — 6,075 ratings — published 1962
Level 7 (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,976 ratings — published 1959
The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,309 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 — 3,274 ratings — published 2018
Resurrection Day (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,371 ratings — published 1999
Down to a Sunless Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.89 — 990 ratings — published 1979
Children of the Dust (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,273 ratings — published 1985
The Last Ship (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.56 — 4,406 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 — 60,920 ratings — published 2005
The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.40 — 24,882 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 — 298 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 — 3,094 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 — 67,964 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 — 2,876 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 — 2,916,208 ratings — published 1953
The Martian Chronicles (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.16 — 289,946 ratings — published 1950
Brother in the Land (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,570 ratings — published 1984
Trinity's Child: A Novel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.00 — 169 ratings — published 1983
This Is The Way The World Ends (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,927 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 — 8,822 ratings — published 1980
One Second After (After, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.98 — 77,626 ratings — published 2009
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,063,659 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 — 1,211 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 — 1,023 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 — 14,684 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 — 4,563 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 — 4,731 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 — 10,725 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 — 11,630 ratings — published 1964
The Wild Shore (Three Californias Triptych, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.74 — 4,295 ratings — published 1984
The Postman (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-war)
avg rating 3.89 — 37,842 ratings — published 1985
“Total annihilation has a way of sharpening people's minds.”
― 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
― 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
“And when the U.S. wants regime change, history shows the U.S. will lie.”
― Nuclear War: A Scenario
― Nuclear War: A Scenario












