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A Canticle for Leibowitz
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A Canticle for Leibowitz

By Walter M. Miller, Jr. ,

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Nuclear War: A Scenario
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Nuclear War

By Annie Jacobsen ,

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On the Beach
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On the Beach

By Nevil Shute ,

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Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
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Command and Control

By Eric Schlosser ,

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The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner
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The Doomsday Machine

By Daniel Ellsberg ,

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Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis
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Gambling with Armageddon

By Martin J. Sherwin ,

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Riddley Walker
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Riddley Walker

By Russell Hoban ,

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The 100
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The 100

By Kass Morgan ,

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The Camel Club
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The Camel Club

By David Baldacci ,

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Alas, Babylon
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Alas, Babylon

By Pat Frank ,

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Never
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Never

By Ken Follett ,

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The Button: The New Nuclear Arms Race and Presidential Power from Truman to Trump
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The Button

By William J. Perry , Tom Z. Collina ,

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Swan Song
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Swan Song

By Robert McCammon ,

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Fail-Safe
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Fail-Safe

By Eugene Burdick , Harvey Wheeler ,

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Pure
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Pure

By Julianna Baggott ,

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End Zone
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End Zone

By Don DeLillo ,

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The Last
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The Last

By Hanna Jameson ,

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The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War
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The Bomb

By Fred Kaplan ,

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With Enough Shovels: Reagan, Bush, and Nuclear War
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With Enough Shovels

By Robert Scheer ,

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Red Alert: The Novel that Inspired Dr. Strangelove, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
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Red Alert

By Peter Bryant ,

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The Explorers
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The Explorers

By C.M. Kornbluth ,

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The Book of Ivy
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The Book of Ivy

By Amy Engel ,

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A Gift Upon the Shore
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A Gift Upon the Shore

By M.K. Wren ,

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The Place of Artists' Cinema: Space, Site and Screen
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The Place of Artists' Cinema

By Maeve Connolly ,

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Them or Us
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Them or Us

By David Moody ,

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Protect and Defend
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Protect and Defend

By Vince Flynn ,

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The Silverplate Bombers: A History and Registry of the Enola Gay and Other B-29s Configured to Carry Atomic Bombs
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The Silverplate Bombers

By Richard H. Campbell ,

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The 509th Remembered
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The 509th Remembered

By Robert Krauss ,

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DEFCON-2: Standing on the Brink of Nuclear War During the Cuban Missile Crisis
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DEFCON-2

By Norman Polmar , John D. Gresham ,

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Down to a Sunless Sea
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Down to a Sunless Sea

By David Graham ,

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Warday
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Warday

By Whitley Strieber , James Kunetka ,

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The Revolution that Failed: Nuclear Competition, Arms Control, and the Cold War
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The Revolution that Failed

By Brendan Rittenhouse Green ,

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The Absolute Weapon: Atomic Power And World Order
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The Absolute Weapon

By Bernard Brodie ,

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Nuclear Strategy in the Modern Era: Regional Powers and International Conflict
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Nuclear Strategy in the Modern Era

By Vipin Narang ,

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Total War
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Total War

By Jerry Ahern ,

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Doomsday Warrior
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Doomsday Warrior

By Ryder Stacy ,

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Trump Sky Alpha
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Trump Sky Alpha

By Mark Doten ,

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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century

By Yuval Noah Harari ,

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The Twelfth Imam
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The Twelfth Imam

By Joel C. Rosenberg ,

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The Wild Shore
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The Wild Shore

By Kim Stanley Robinson ,

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Banning the Bomb, Smashing the Patriarchy
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Banning the Bomb, Smashing the Patriarchy

By Ray Acheson ,

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Disarming Doomsday: The Human Impact of Nuclear Weapons since Hiroshima
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Disarming Doomsday

By Becky Alexis-Martin ,

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Cornerstones of Security: Arms Control Treaties in the Nuclear Era
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Cornerstones of Security

By Thomas Graham, Jr. , Damien J. LaVera ,

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Anomaly
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Anomaly

By Krista McGee ,

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Common Women, Uncommon Practices
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Common Women, Uncommon Practices

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Peace in the Post-Christian Era
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Peace in the Post-Christian Era

By Thomas Merton ,

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America's Geisha Ally
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America's Geisha Ally

By Naoko Shibusawa ,

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