Belated reply to
alchemi's prompt: revisiting my Nuclear War Reading List.
Really, 'Nuclear War Reading List' is the wrong name. Especially as I expand it out to not-books.
Anyway, the list, expanded:
Books
Songs
I'm obviously missing tons of these - any opinions?
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Really, 'Nuclear War Reading List' is the wrong name. Especially as I expand it out to not-books.
Anyway, the list, expanded:
Books
- Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank (Harry Hart) - a remarkably clever story of events in a small Florida town after a nuclear war.
- Failsafe by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler - a good story, exploring the possibility of an accidental nuclear attack.
- Warday by James Kunetka and Whitley Strieber - another story about the aftermath of a nuclear war. Not so realistic as "Alas, Babylon", as it suffers from an excess of sci-fi zeal, but a worthy book on its own merits.
- The Curve of Binding Energy by John McPhee – a good nonfiction book about nuclear issues, including judgments of how difficult it would be to build weapons.
kirabug: A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr. - a classic postapocalyptic science fiction story.
Not included: Farnham's Freehold - these are stories about, not stories including, nuclear weapons; Earthwreck! by Thomas N. Scortia - I haven't read it yet.
Movies
(Excluding adaptations of the above books.)- The Sum of All Fears - modern, but still dealing with the same stuff.
- Dr. Strangelove - duh.
- The Sum of All Fears - modern, but still dealing with the same stuff.
From the comments:
Songs
- "99 Luftballoons", Nena - in the lyrics, a nuclear war is launched when the 99 red balloons are released and mistaken for an attack.
baldanders: "8 1/2 Minutes", The Dismemberment Plan - 8 1/2 minutes is implied as being the length of the 'war'.
From the comments:
I'm obviously missing tons of these - any opinions?
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