nuclear warfare

Combines newsreel footage, educational films and government training films to portray the Cold War paranoia of the nineteen-fifties.

After reading a book describing the aftermath of a nuclear war, fourteen-year-old Whitney becomes obsessed with the inevitability of the earth's destruction and finds herself more and more paralyzed by fear and depression.

Danny Wright is considered to be a hero by many in the rebel held area of Idaho and the Northwest, but he has little faith in what passes for a government there, or in the secretive and repressive Brotherhood--and when nuclear weapons are detonated in Washington, D.C. and New York, the Civil War suddenly turns into World War III.

"(It is) two years since the detonation of nuclear weapons above the United States brought America to its knees. After suffering starvation, war, and countless deaths, the survivors of Black Mountain, North Carolina, are beginning to piece back together the technologies they had once taken for granted: electricity, radio communications, and medications. They cling to the hope that a new national government is finally emerging. Then comes word that most of the young men and women of the community are to be drafted into an "Army of National Recovery" and sent to trouble spots hundreds of miles away. When town administrator John Matherson protests the draft, he's offered a deal: leave Black Mountain and enter national service, and the draft will be reduced. But the brutal suppression of a neighboring community under its new federal administrator and the troops accompanying him suggests that all is not as it should be with this burgeoning government"--Provided by publisher.

"In the years following World War II, a new kind of war gripped the world. This was not a war fought on a battlefield but a war fought in the mind and through willpower and demonstrations of strength. The Cold War, as this conflict became known, lasted from the 1950s to the 1980s. It was a time that saw many new technologies emerge. Among them were ballistic missiles, the M1 Abrams tank, and the television. This book details the events of the Cold War, the need for these technologies, and the impact these advancements had on societies of the past as well as today."--Provided by publisher.

In 1962, people around the world, but especially in the United States, Cuba, and the Soviet Union, seemed to be holding their breath as they wondered if a nuclear war was about to erupt. US Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara later recalled that he thought October 27, 1962, "was the last Saturday I would ever see.".

"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.

One day, Fin has a school day just like any other, filled with bluffing through class and trying to impress a beautiful and sophisticated girl; the next day, Fin wakes up to find his parents absent and nothing electronic working. Nuclear winter sets in as nations detonate bombs across the world, and Fin and his brother Max, along with their friends, are forced to survive in a new cruel world.

A disparate cast of charatcers--Hoppy Harrington, a deformed mutant with telekinetic powers, Walt Dangerfield, a selfless disc jockey, and Dr. Bluthgeld, a megalomaniac physicist--attempt to survive a post-nuclear holocaust after an attack from China.

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.