So most of the time when you hear about a nuclear bomb plot it’s either about preventing it altogether or it’s about the post apocalyptic world caused by the attack.
Are there any books that focus mainly on the aftermath of an attack? Especially on how it affects first responders.
by javerthugo
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Hiroshima by John Hersey
Alas, Babylon
So I guess you mean the immediate aftermath? Like months or a few years? Here are some classics
*ON THE BEACH*–Neville Shute (1957) Australians await the inevitable spread of radioactive fallout. Made twice into movies that I don’t think completely captured the pathos of “waiting for the end.”
*ALAS, BABYLON*–Pat Frank (1959) A Florida town tries to survive after nuclear war cuts it off from the world. Really like this one because it has that feel of ordinary people just trying to figure out how to make it in the world where everything seems to be falling apart more and more.
*SWAN SONG*–Robert McCammon (1987). Survivors of nuclear war fight both devastation and a rising evil. This is my least enthusiastic recommendation. I just felt it went on too much, but many people like it.
*THE LAST SHIP*–William Brinkley (1988) A U.S. Navy destroyer roams a dead world after global nuclear exchange. I honestly didn’t like the novel as much. I think it was trying too hard to be literary. The television adaptation had almost nothing to do with it plot-wise but was outstanding.
“Hiroshima: The Last Witnesses”, by M. G. Sheftall
“Nagasaki: The Last Witnesses”, by M.G. Sheftall
“Ghosts of Hiroshima”, by Charles Pellegrino
“Nuclear War: A Scenario”, by Annie Jacobsen
Nuclear War by Annie Jacobsen. It’s nonfiction and truly scary.
I loved on the Beach.
Nuclear War by Annie Jacobsen is eye opening but nonfiction. If I think about it, we already live in that post nuclear world.
I liked the Commission report on the North Korean nuclear attacks