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A Path Where No Man Thought: Nuclear Winter and the End of the Arms Race: A book authored by Richard P. Turco and Carl Sagan, published in 1990; it explains the nuclear winter hypothesis and, with that, advocates nuclear disarmament. [239] Nuclear Winter is a mini documentary by Retro Report that looks at nuclear winter fears in today's world.
It makes dramatic long-lasting climate predictions of the effect a nuclear winter would have on the Earth, an event that is suggested by the authors to follow both a city countervalue strike during a nuclear war, and especially following strikes on oil refineries and fuel depots.
Apocalyptic fiction is a subgenre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of civilization due to a potentially existential catastrophe such as nuclear warfare, pandemic, extraterrestrial attack, impact event, cybernetic revolt, technological singularity, dysgenics, supernatural phenomena, divine judgment, climate change, resource depletion or some other general disaster.
Originally released September 1979, it was updated and published in May 1987 with a significant addition on nuclear winter, consisting largely of detailing the shaky assumptions used by nuclear winter models. [2] In 1999 a one-page addendum on radiation hormesis was added. In 2022 the book was updated by Steven Harris, who was mentored by ...
Prime Directive, by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens; a Star Trek novel where an alien civilization is apparently destroyed by a sudden, unexpected nuclear war among its own people; Pulling Through, by Dean Ing; first half of the book is a novel on a family surviving a nuclear blast, the second half is a non-fiction survival guide
The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler’s Atomic Bomb is a 2016 military history book by Neal Bascomb. It tells the story of the Norwegian operation to sabotage the Vemork heavy water plant during World War II. [1] [2] [3]
American writer Annie Jacobsen’s “Nuclear War: A Scenario” is one of six books shortlisted for the 50,000 pound ($66,000) Baillie Gifford Prize. The book, which the judging panel called “deeply researched and terrifying,” offers a minute-by-minute account of what might happen if a rogue state launched nuclear missiles at the Pentagon.
[1] [2] [3] Whisenant believed the description of the sun being blocked out in Revelation chapter 11 was a prediction of nuclear winter. [4] He initially published two books, 88 Reasons Why the Rapture Will Be in 1988 and On Borrowed Time. Both were published by World Bible Society with financial backing from Norvell Olive, a Christian radio ...