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This classic episode of the U.S. Army's The Big Picture television series explores the ways the Army prepares for a situation when ground troops are in the presence of a nuclear explosion. This video from the National Archives and Records Administration shows the tests conducted at Frenchman's Flat, Nevada, in January of 1955, as the Army at Camp Desert Rock, utilized thousands of ground troops in an effort to establish the proper coordination between...
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"Months before publication, William R. Forstchen's One Second After was cited on the floor of Congress as a book all Americans should read. Hundreds of thousands of people have read the tale. One Year After is the thrilling follow-up to that smash hit. The story picks up a year after One Second After ends, two years since the detonation of nuclear weapons above the United States brought America to its knees. After suffering starvation, war, and countless...
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This propulsive post-apocalyptic thriller "in which Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None collides with Stephen King's The Shining" (NPR) follows a group of survivors stranded at a hotel as the world descends into nuclear war and 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 world to respond to his wife's text message: I miss you so much. I feel bad...
Jon thought he had all the time in the world to respond to his wife's text message: I miss you so much. I feel bad...
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This classic episode of the U.S. Army's The Big Picture television series shows viewers how the army is training solders to protect themselves during possible nuclear warfare. Part of this training is to familiarize soldiers with actual atomic detonations, showing them the damage such weapons can inflict, and teaching them the most effective methods of defense against atomic attack. This video from the National Archives and Records Administration,...
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150 years after a nuclear attack destroyed much of the United States, Selah, just turned eighteen, learns that she is a hybrid of two surviving factions and sets out from what was Norfolk, Virginia, to seek the father she never knew, aided by her stepbrother Cleon and Bodhi, a Lander like her father.
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"Wherever Hel looks, New York City is both reassuringly familiar and terribly wrong. As one of the thousands who fled the outbreak of nuclear war in an alternate United States--and alternate timeline, somewhere across the multiverse--she finds herself living as a refugee in our own not-so-parallel New York. The slang and technology are foreign to her, the politics and art unrecognizable. While others, like her partner Vikram, attempt to assimilate,...
11) Surfacing
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"After a nuclear war has ravaged the planet, children of the few survivors are sent to renowned scientist Dr. Parkmanand his underground facility...to learn, create, and test the latest technologies until they turn eighten and are sent back to the surface to help rebuild society...the old lab is full of secrets, and some answers are perhaps better left buried"--Back cover.
12) The wall
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A haunting feminist sci-fi masterpiece and international bestseller that is "as absorbing as Robinson Crusoe" (Doris Lessing)
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...
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"A South Carolina family endures one life-shattering day in 1961 in a town that lies in the shadow of a nuclear bomb plant. It's November 1, 1961, in a small town in South Carolina, and nuclear war is coming. Nine-year-old Wilson Porter believes this with every fiber of his being. He prowls his neighborhood for Communists and studies fallout pamphlets and the habits of his father, a scientist at the nuclear plant in town. Meanwhile, his mother Nellie...
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"New York Times bestselling author Joel C. Rosenberg returns with a high-stakes political thriller set in Russia. Everything he learned to protect the president, he must use to take out theirs. With an American president distracted by growing tensions in North Korea and Iran, an ominous new threat is emerging in Moscow. A czar is rising in the Kremlin, a Russian president feverishly consolidating power, silencing his opposition, and plotting a brazen...
17) Z for Zachariah
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Seemingly the only person left alive after a nuclear war, a sixteen-year-old girl is relieved to see a man arrive into her valley until she realizes that he is a tyrant and she must somehow escape.
18) The camel club
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The Camel Club is a four-man group of Washington, D.C. misfits, that meet weekly to discuss political conspiracies they believe exist and what actions they might take. One night club members witness the murder of Secret Service employee Patrick Johnson, thus thrusting the wacky crew into the middle of a bigger conspiracy than they could ever have imagined.
19) The twelfth Imam
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Book 1 in the best-selling 3-book espionage and spy thriller series that has sold 700,000 copies!
"Rosenberg is the go-to novelist for Christian political fiction."
—Publisher's Weekly
The Twelfth Imam is the first novel of a new political thriller series by Joel C. Rosenberg, the New York Times bestselling author of the award-winning Last Jihad series. Rosenberg takes you inside a world few will ever enter....
"Rosenberg is the go-to novelist for Christian political fiction."
—Publisher's Weekly
The Twelfth Imam is the first novel of a new political thriller series by Joel C. Rosenberg, the New York Times bestselling author of the award-winning Last Jihad series. Rosenberg takes you inside a world few will ever enter....