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1) On the beach
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (134 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Radioactive fallout from a nuclear war has wiped out the entire northern hemisphere, with the exception of Australia. With fallout expected momentarily, the Australians review their lives, establish new relationships and prepare for their tragic demise.
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Series
Camel Club novels volume 1
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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.
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Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 24 cm
Description
This breathtaking dystopian psychological thriller follows an American academic stranded at a Swiss hotel as the world descends into nuclear war--along with twenty other survivors--who becomes obsessed with identifying a murderer in their midst after 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 about how we...
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"With America brought to the brink of destruction, one woman becomes the last hope of a nation and its people... Victoria Emerson is a congressional member of the U. S. House of Representatives for the state of West Virginia. Her aspirations have always been to help her community and to avoid the ambitious power plays of her peers in Washington D. C. Then Major Joseph McCrea appears on her doorstep and uses the code phrase Crimson Phoenix, meaning...
7) The wall
Author
Publisher
[New Directions Publishing]
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
239 pages ; 21 cm
Description
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 yet deeply personal and absorbing, The Wall is at once a critique of modern civilization, a nuanced and loving portrait of a relationship between a woman...
Publisher
Phase 4 Films
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After being faced with an impending nuclear apocalypse, a group of college students at an international school in Jakarta must determine which ten of them will take shelter underground and reboot the human race.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 95 min.) : sd., b&w with col. sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Description
In this dark comedy, chaos erupts when a general orders an attack on the Russians, which subsequently will trigger the Russian "Doomsday Device." The President and his aides struggle to find a way to stop the impending doom.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
372 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Description
Fred Kaplan takes us into the White House Situation Room, the Joint Chiefs of Staffs “Tank” in the Pentagon, and the vast chambers of Strategic Command to bring us the untold storiesbased on exclusive interviews and previously classified documentsof how Americas presidents and generals have thought about, threatened, broached, and just barely avoided nuclear war from the dawn of the atomic age until today. Kaplans historical research and deep...
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Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (179 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Panic in year zero!: Details what might happen to the survivors of a nuclear attack. The last man on Earth: One man survives a lethal virus that transforms all other humans into vampire-like zombies.
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Description
While a nuclear strike would require action, environmental catastrophe is partially defined by willful inaction in response to human-induced climate change. Denial of the facts is only half the equation. Other contributing factors include extreme techniques for the extraction of remaining carbon deposits, the elimination of agricultural land for bio-fuel, the construction of dams, and the destruction of forests that are crucial for carbon sequestration.
On...
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This book explores the history of the Atomic Bomb in World War II and uncovers Robert Oppenheimer's mysterious role as its visionary leader. As the world plunged into war, Oppenheimer found himself at the centre of a moral and scientific dilemma. Could science save humanity, or would it be its downfall? With gripping narratives and meticulous research, this book takes you on a riveting journey from the Manhattan Project to the Atomic Bombings at Hiroshima...
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A satire in which the U.S. president and his military advisors struggle ineptly to avert a holocaust after a psychotic Air Force general launches a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union because he fears that the Russians are poisoning the water supply in the United States.
16) Fail safe
Series
Criterion collection volume 1011
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
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Description
The unnerving procedural thriller painstakingly details an all-too-plausible nightmare scenario in which a mechanical failure jams the United States military's chain of command and sends the country hurtling toward nuclear war with the Soviet Union.
17) One year after
Author
Series
One second after volume 2
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Description
"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...
18) The atomic cafe
Publisher
Docurama
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 88 min.) : sound, color with black & white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"A compilation of archival film clips beginning with the first atomic bomb detonation in the New Mexico desert. The footage, much of it produced as government propaganda, follows the story of the bomb through the two atomic attacks on Japan that ended World War II to the bomb's central role in the cold war. Shown along with the famous 'duck and cover' Civil Defense films are lesser-known clips, many of which possess a bizarre black humor when seen...
19) Miracle mile
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 DVD (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On the day Harry falls in love with a young woman named Julie, he also discovers that there are only seventy minutes until a nuclear attack.
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