Catalog Search Results
2) On the beach
Author
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
1957
Physical Desc
320 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
A novel about the survivors of an atomic war, who face an inevitable end as radiation poisoning moves toward Australia from the North.
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 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.
7) 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.
8) Dead hand
Author
Formats
Description
When an unforeseen asteroid strikes Siberia with the force of a thousand Hiroshimas, it triggers Dead Hand, the ultimate defense mechanism developed by the Soviets at the height of the Cold War.
The missiles are pointing at the United States and its European allies, and ultra-nationalist General Likatchev is willing to use them as blackmail to topple the government in Moscow and return Russia to her status as world power.
When Russia responds to...
Author
Series
Twelfth Imam novels volume 1
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
viii, 490 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
As the apocalyptic leaders of Iran call for the annihilation of Israel and the U.S., CIA operative David Shirazi is sent into Tehran with one objective: use all means necessary to disrupt Iran's nuclear weapons program, without leaving American fingerprints and without triggering a regional war. A native Farsi speaker whose family escaped from Iran in 1979, he couldn't be better prepared for the mission. But none of his training has prepared Shirazi...
Author
Publisher
Eos
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
xiii, 334 pages ; 21 cm
Description
In the Utah desert, Brother Francis of the Albertian Order of Leibowitz has made a miraculous discovery: the relics of the martyr Isaac Leibowitz himself, including the blessed blueprint and the sacred shopping list. They may provide a bright ray of hope in a terrifying age of darkness, a time of ignorance and genetic monsters that are the unholy aftermath of the Flame Deluge. But as the spellbinding mystery at the core of this extraordinary novel...
Series
Criterion collection volume 821
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Eager for war, a general plans a nuclear apocalypse.
12) On the beach
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (134 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When the entire Northern hemisphere is destroyed in an atomic war, the residents of Melbourne, Australia, realize that it is only time keeping them safe before a cloud of radioactive materials reaches their part of the world.
Publisher
ABC News
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 85 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Go beyond science fiction to science fact, as it takes viewers on a roller-coaster ride through black holes, intelligent robots, asteroid strikes and deadly plagues. Take a journey through the universe to the inner world of DNA.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
420 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
The former defense analyst who revealed the Pentagon Papers offers an eyewitness account of America's nuclear program in the 1960s and reveals the dangers in the country's seventy-year-long nuclear policy.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Description
Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their superhuman powers for the first time, working together in a desperate attempt to stop the Hellfire Club and a global nuclear war.
16) Raven Rock: the story of the U.S. Government's secret plan to save itself-while the rest of us die
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xxv, 529 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 25 cm
Description
"The eye-opening truth about the government's secret plans to survive a catastrophic attack on US soil--even if the rest of us die--a roadmap that spans from the dawn of the nuclear age to today"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Formats
Description
"On May 31, 1988, Reagan stood on Russian soil and addressed a packed audience at Moscow State University, delivering a remarkableyet now largely forgottenspeech that capped his first visit to the Soviet capital. This fourth in a series of summits between Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, was a dramatic coda to their tireless efforts to reduce the nuclear threat. More than that, Reagan viewed it as "a grand historical moment":...
Author
Series
Time quintet volume 3
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Charles Wallace Murry and the unicorn Gaudior must travel through time and space in a battle against an evil dictator who would destroy the entire universe. Includes an interview with the author.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
x, 484 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
"Upon assuming the presidency in 1953, Dwight Eisenhower came to be seen by many as a doddering lightweight. Yet behind the bland smile and apparent simplemindedness was a brilliant, intellectual tactician. As Evan Thomas reveals in his provocative examination of Ike's White House years, Eisenhower was a master of calculated duplicity. As with his bridge and poker games he was eventually forced to stop playing after leaving too many fellow army officers...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A scientist and his colleagues hire an ex-Naval officer to lead an expedition in an Alaskan submarine to stop a Red Chinese anti-American conspiracy that could lead to WW III.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Let us know! Suggest a Title