Books
Listed below are fiction and non fiction books based on nuclear events.
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CND - Now More than Ever by Kate Hudson – Non-Fiction
Special CND price of £10. Order your copy now
and read about the history of CND from the beginning, starting with
Hiroshima, to the present day. |
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Nuclear Paranoia by Chas Newkey-Burden– Non-Fiction
This book is a history of the nuclear bomb and how it's scared us to
death. It includes analysis of the effects of significant moments in
nuclear history including Hiroshima & Nagasaki, the Cuban missile
crisis, Chernobyl and Star Wars. It also includes reviews and analysis
of nuclear war films and other instances of nuke paranoia in pop music,
television, literature and fashion. |
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Hiroshima  by John Hersey
(YOUNG ADULT/ADULT) – Non-Fiction
Account of the bombing of Hiroshima built around the experience of six survivors.
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki by RG Grant
(CHILDREN) – Non-Fiction
Tells
the story of the dropping of the first atomic bomb from the perspective
of the scientists, the politicians, the military and the victims.
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Red Alert by Peter Bryant - Fiction
The inspiration for Dr. Strangelove! In the late-'50s post-nuclear war tradition, Peter George's (Peter
Bryant's) tale of a rogue US general launching a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union took quite a turn
before reaching the screen. Still, it's the author's best-known work,
and at one George was hired by Kubrick to transfer his work to
celluloid. First published 1958.
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The Gadget by Paul Zindel (TEENAGE/YOUNG ADULT) – Fiction
A suspense novel based on historical facts, it tells the story of a boy
investigating the truth about Los Alamos – the scientific laboratory
where the atomic bomb was developed – in the months before the first
bomb was dropped. |
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Peace: 50 years of protest 1958-2008 – Non-Fiction
The Story of the Nuclear Disarmament symbol, its origins and how it became a global symbol for peace. |
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Four Minute Warning: Britain's Cold War Legacy by Bob Clarke- Non-Fiction
Four Minute Warning is the story of Britain's Cold War, and it deals
with all aspects of this chilling time when Britain could have been
obliterated so easily by the unleashing of Russian nuclear weapons. The period was punctuated by
an arms race which pushed the world to the edge of destruction, as both
East and West amassed arsenals of nuclear weapons far beyond what would
be needed to destroy the world. So what part did
Britain play in all this? Read on and find out! |
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Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr
(CHILDREN) – Non-Fiction
The
real story of Sadako, a Hiroshima child who died from leukaemia, and
raced against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the
legend that by doing so a sick person can be healed. |
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When the Wind Blows by Raymond Briggs (CHILDREN/TEENAGE/ADULT) – Fiction
This
graphic novel in cartoon form is set in England during the
Reagan-Thatcher years of the early eighties. It covers the final days
of an ordinary English couple, Jim and Hilda Bloggs, as they struggle
against the effects of a nuclear strike.
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The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
(TEENAGE/YOUNG ADULT) – Fiction
Science
fiction classic set in a post-nuclear war world where long-term
radioactive fallout resulted in human genetic mutations. This novel
won’t teach you much about nuclear issues, as it deals more with social
exclusion and religious fanaticism, but, written in 1955, it is
representative of a certain post-World War II literature with its fears
about the effects of nuclear technology and nuclear catastrophe. |
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Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture by Douglas Coupland
(YOUNG ADULT/ADULT) – Fiction
A
tribute to the quiet post-baby boom generation, born in the late 1950s
and 1960s, which distanced itself from middle-class corporate America.
Over-educated and under-employed, haunted by the nuclear threat and
unable to plan their future, they reflect on contemporary culture and
try to find a meaning to life. |
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Films
Films about nuclear apocalypse and the effects of nuclear war.
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Doctor Strangelove Stanley Kubrick, 1963
Crazy
American General, Jack D. Ripper, unleashes a nuclear strike force
against Russia because he is convinced that they are tampering with his
nation's water supplies. Even the sinister Dr. Strangelove is powerless
to stop the eventual holocaust |
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Threads Mick Jackson, 1984,
Showing the after-effects of World War III on the United Kingdom by
concentrating on two Sheffield families linked by an unplanned
pregnancy, it illustrates the scientific, political, medical and social
consequences of the severing of the many vital connective "threads"
that support a Western society.
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The Day After Nicholas Meyer, 1983
Dramatic portrayal of the horrors of a nuclear holocaust. |
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The War Game Peter Watkins, 1965,
Commissioned by the BBC to dramatize the effects of a nuclear attack on
Great Britain, this film of monumental devastation so shocked and
stunned the heads of the agency that it was never shown in television.
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Black Rain (aka Kuroi Ame) (REGION 1) (NTSC) Shohei Imamura, 1989
The story of the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing, based on Masuji Ibuse's novel.
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Fail-Safe Sidney Lumet, 1964
American
planes are sent to deliver a nuclear attack on Moscow, but it's a
mistake due to an electrical malfunction. Can all-out war be averted
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On The Beach Stanley Kramer, 1959,
An American submarine sets out to investigate after atomic waste has destroyed most of the world. |
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When The Wind Blows Jimmy Murakami, 1986,
When The Wind Blows is an animation based on Raymond Briggs's
comic cartoon book of the same name. It follows Jim and Hilda, a
typical retired couple, as they deal with the effects of a nuclear
attack ('The Bomb') during the Third World War between the U.S.A and
The Soviets. Music in the film is by Roger Waters but the title song
comes from David Bowie. |
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Free Cinema
Collection of short films from the Free Cinema movement. Includes footage of the 1958 march to Aldermaston. |
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Testament (REGION 1) (NTSC) Jane Alexander, 1984
Nuclear
war in the United States is portrayed in a realistic and believable
manner. The story is told through the eyes of a woman who is struggling
to take care of her family. The entire movie takes place in a small
suburban town outside San Francisco. After the nuclear attack, contact
with the outside world is pretty much cut off. |
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