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These books are ranked using the premise labels extracted for Fail-Safe.
Premise labels used: nuclear accident, accidental war, misdirected strike, command failure, computer malfunction, fail-safe failure, nuclear brinkmanship, atomic holocaust
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A faux commission report traces how a chain of misread signals could trigger a devastating nuclear war.
Why this is here
Premise labels: nuclear war · nuclear attack · commission report · government inquiry · alternate future · accidental escalation · miscommunication · miscalculation · nuclear deterrence · international crisis
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.1577
A Cold War bomber crisis spirals toward nuclear war as commanders race to stop a rogue strike on Russia.
Why this is here
Premise labels: nuclear war · mutually assured destruction · rogue general · first strike · accidental war · doomsday scenario · chain of command failure · bomber mission · retaliatory strike · world-ending stakes
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Distance: 0.1685
A Navy destroyer’s captain leads the last survivors of nuclear war through a ruined world toward uncertain refuge.
Why this is here
Premise labels: nuclear war aftermath · last survivors · survival at sea · post-apocalyptic survival · world-ending catastrophe · repopulation dilemma · radiation contamination · search for safe harbor · command crisis
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Distance: 0.1998
A small American town is hurled into the far future by a nuclear blast and must survive on a dying Earth.
Why this is here
Premise labels: nuclear war · city displaced in time · far future survival · dying Earth · first contact · evacuation refusal · post-disaster survival · future shock
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Distance: 0.2035
A future-history of atomic war and the uneasy utopia that rises after civilization is shattered.
Why this is here
Premise labels: atomic energy · nuclear warfare · world war · world government · post-apocalyptic reconstruction · technological disruption · arms race · civilizational collapse · scientific progress · global governance
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Distance: 0.2216
In post-nuclear Australia, survivors face a radioactive countdown while trying to live normally with no escape.
Why this is here
Premise labels: nuclear war aftermath · last survivors · radiation fallout · inevitable death · end-times waiting · search for survivors · civic collapse · doomsday scenario
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.2221
An alternate Korean War spirals into global nuclear escalation as leaders and civilians face World War III.
Why this is here
Premise labels: nuclear escalation · cold war goes hot · alternate Korean War · atomic retaliation · world war · what if · global catastrophe
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Distance: 0.2284
A stranded space voyage turns into a poetic meditation on survival, memory, and humanity after Earth’s ruin.
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Premise labels: lost in space · doomed voyage · post-apocalyptic survivors · Earth evacuation · drifting spacecraft · nuclear aftermath
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Distance: 0.2311
A 14-year-old girl fights to survive after a nuclear reactor disaster turns her country into a panic-stricken ruin.
Why this is here
Premise labels: nuclear disaster · radiation exposure · survival · family loss · escape · post-disaster aftermath
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Distance: 0.2332
A fractured family retreats to a remote Canadian cabin, only to face a sudden nuclear-collapse survival ordeal.
Why this is here
Premise labels: family survival · nuclear disaster · isolated cabin · home loss · second chance · civilizational collapse · family reset
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.2343
In near-future London, a mother and son flee as a tech-dependent society suddenly shuts down.
Why this is here
Premise labels: tech collapse · system failure · family survival · mother and child · escape city · apocalypse survival · protect child · societal breakdown · near-future crisis · technology dependence · environmental collapse · survival journey
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Distance: 0.2344
An American family on vacation in rural Ireland must survive after an EMP-like disaster wipes out modern life.
Why this is here
Premise labels: EMP disaster · nuclear attack · survival · family stranded abroad · off-grid survival · civilizational collapse · resource scarcity
Semantic match: ranked by premise
Distance: 0.2352
