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Shigeru Kayama, 香山滋

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Themes labels used: nuclear weapons, atomic fallout, hydrogen bomb, antiwar, environmental destruction, ethical science, war trauma, human hubris, nature retaliates, postwar recovery, scientific responsibility

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The X-Files: Ground Zero

Kevin J. Anderson · 1997 · The X-Files

Mulder and Scully investigate bizarre deaths tied to a secret nuclear project and a hidden danger that refuses to stay buried.

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Themes labels: nuclear weapons · government secrecy · conspiracy · science ethics · environmental damage · war and aftermath · public safety · cover-up · paranoia · truth seeking · morality of research · activism · sacrifice · moral responsibility · technology caution · human cost

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Cover of This Is The Way The World Ends by James K. Morrow

This Is The Way The World Ends

James K. Morrow · 1987

A tombstone carver becomes entangled in a nuclear apocalypse, then faces judgment from the unborn in Antarctica.

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Themes labels: nuclear war · war guilt · responsibility · justice · complicity · human extinction · future loss · past loss · deterrence · brinkmanship · moral accountability · free will · parenthood · human condition · civilization collapse · political critique · religion · belief · hope · absurdity of power

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Ape and Essence

Aldous Huxley · 1992

A screenwriter’s discarded script opens into a savage post-nuclear vision of a ruined America ruled by fear and cult belief.

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Themes labels: war · nuclear destruction · religion · nationalism · science and ethics · human nature · moral decay · sexual repression · social control · fear · progress · ecological destruction · democracy · complicity · guilt · love versus violence

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Cover of Godzilla: Awakening by Max Borenstein

Godzilla: Awakening

Max Borenstein, Greg Borenstein · 2014 · MonsterVerse

A postwar scientist’s search for giant monsters uncovers the origins of Godzilla and Monarch.

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Themes labels: atomic bomb · radiation · postwar trauma · military secrecy · government cover-up · nature vs humanity · monster mythology · origin of belief · scientific proof · coexistence · human responsibility · identity inheritance

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Red Alert

Peter Bryant, Peter George · 2008

A Cold War bomber crisis spirals toward nuclear war as commanders race to stop a rogue strike on Russia.

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Themes labels: nuclear deterrence · arms race · responsibility · human error · power abuse · military obedience · rationality under pressure · war ethics · civilization fragility · political warning · peace advocacy · mutually assured destruction

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Fail-Safe

Eugene Burdick, Harvey Wheeler · 1999

A Cold War command failure sends U.S. nuclear bombers toward Moscow, forcing leaders into a terrifying crisis.

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Themes labels: mutually assured destruction · nuclear deterrence · human fallibility · technological dependence · automation · accidental war · military responsibility · political responsibility · cold war paranoia · diplomacy under pressure · ethics of command · sacrifice · bureaucratic power · weaponized mistrust · anti-nuclear message

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Cover of The Oppenheimer Alternative by Robert J. Sawyer

The Oppenheimer Alternative

Robert J. Sawyer · 2020

A meticulously researched secret-history tale in which Oppenheimer and fellow scientists race to avert a hidden solar catastrophe.

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Themes labels: morality of science · ethics of nuclear weapons · science and politics · redemption · public secrecy · humanity vs destruction · responsibility · sacrifice · scientific collaboration · personal guilt

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Warday

Whitley Strieber · 1985

Two journalist-authors cross a post-nuclear America five years after a limited war to document what survived.

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Themes labels: nuclear war · survival · civilizational collapse · resource scarcity · triage · radiation sickness · government failure · infrastructure fragility · social breakdown · border control · nationalism · xenophobia · community resilience · moral responsibility · public health · economic collapse · technology dependence · aid politics · individual rights · state power · fear of war · human costs of war

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Cover of Bombs Away by Harry Turtledove

Bombs Away

Harry Turtledove · 2015 · The Hot War

An alternate Korean War spirals into global nuclear escalation as leaders and civilians face World War III.

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Themes labels: nuclear war · war suffering · survival · civilian cost · escalation · cold war anxiety · helplessness · historical contingency · geopolitics · dehumanization · state violence · moral catastrophe · ordinary lives under war · global consequences

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Eon

Greg Bear · 1985 · The Way

A mysterious hollow asteroid in Earth orbit becomes the battleground for science, geopolitics, and a warning from the future.

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Themes labels: cold war · nuclear war · human survival · technology and power · knowledge and secrecy · future consequences · alternate realities · human nature · political tension · civilization and collapse · scientific wonder · posthumanism

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Cover of The Mouse That Roared by Leonard Wibberley

The Mouse That Roared

Leonard Wibberley · 1984 · The Mouse That Roared

A tiny Alpine duchy tries to lose a war with the U.S. for money, but an absurd chain of events changes everything.

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Themes labels: nuclear disarmament · international relations · imperialism · war and peace · power and responsibility · national sovereignty · economic survival · foreign aid · arms race · mutually assured destruction · free trade · capitalism · propaganda · moral idealism · humanity

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Cover of There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury

There Will Come Soft Rains

Ray Bradbury · 1989

An automated house keeps performing its daily routines after a nuclear war has erased the family it was built for.

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Themes labels: nuclear war · technological dependence · dehumanization · mortality · nature endures · human folly · loss · entropy · isolation · routine and emptiness · war and annihilation · legacy and erasure · artifice vs life · domestic routine

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