Nuclear War Fiction

Alien duals, possessing the power to terraform a planet into a wasteland through their dreams, are sent to Earth to accomplish that unthinkable outcome.

Nate Wilder suffers from panic attacks triggered by news reports of world catastrophes even when, rationally, the events should not affect him. Nate becomes a prepper to help him cope with the anxiety, stocking a makeshift shelter. So when nuclear disaster actually strikes home, Nate must employ truly heroic courage or fold to his fears. But in the aftermath of the bombs, it quickly becomes apparent that surviving the attack is just the beginning - there is far worse yet to come.

A science fiction/fantasy story of a most curious planet far, far away ... with a quite sinister twist.

Acclaimed author Anthony Renfro has a problem. As his fans wait anxiously for his next release, a character he has created tumbles out of the pages of his book and comes to life. With no clear story or plot in Anthony’s head, he must work together with this character in order to find out what story he belongs in before the critics and fans come pounding on Anthony’s door.

People resist change. Normal is comfortable. With Labour winning the general election, a new Prime Minister takes centre stage, a man with very different values to the outgoing leader. For him, the military and everything close to them are just his new toys, to be used as and when he wishes. In Whitehall, the new Director of Special Forces is a man who likes his sherbets, who has no personal experience of elite soldiering. For him it’s all about who you know, not what you know. Anything for an easy life. For Alex Green and his young family this all becomes too much, and he resigns his ...

Book 6 of the Survival Apocalypse series “Sword Over Cuba” brings new challenges to ardent fans as it revisits two characters introduced at the very beginning of the beloved and complex epic. The landscape expands as Dommy Roosevelt of Philadelphia and Nelson Martin of Cuba begin their journeys which will eventually culminate in the Choccolocco Valley. How we get there is the magic ahead. In “Sword Over Cuba” young Nelson Martin, son of a plantation owner, goes to war in the post apocalyptic Cuban landscape. Elsewhere Dommy Roosevelt begins a bloody march south to a fabled place ...

In Book 5 of the Survival Apocalypse series set in the Choccolocco Valley called "The Pig Men" we wrap up the Georgia War most pleasingly and introduce new and important hints as to the future of Jed. Later in Book 5, The Pig Men, Jed sets about to solve the long time mystery of dead babies found floating down the Choccolocco Creek. Beloved character, Ranger Reuben Sizemore accompanies Jed in his quest but he may wish he stayed home. He finds love, but at a steep price. Complicating matters Jed and his mentor Billy Rayburn have a "falling out". Jed suffers from growing pains. War chief of ...

For Agent Curie, the battlefield has become his laboratory. While other scientists tinker away at Los Alamos, he hunts down the masterminds behind the Nazi nuclear program. But after the first nuke drops on Japan, military intelligence assigns him to a new secret mission. A top German scientist has disappeared. A devastating firefight in Berlin is the only lead. The clues? Radiation spikes. Tanks with holes melted right through their armor. What does it all mean? There's a new weapon in the field. One with more devastating potential than anyone can imagine. A nuclear gun that fits in the ...

What would be the opposite of a Black Hole, a gravity source so powerful that not even light can escape it? The opposite would be a negative gravity source so powerful that nothing can even touch it! Dr. Applebreath has been developing energy weapons and defenses for decades built on this concept. JJ’s President’s Suit is a lightweight business suit that employs this principle to render the wearer invulnerable to small arms fire by absorbing the incoming energy of approaching projectiles and reflecting them back with equal momentum. Farley’s Anti-Gravity Ballroom enabling dancers to ...

From Neil Sheehan, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic A Bright Shining Lie, comes this long-awaited, magnificent epic. Here is the never-before-told story of the nuclear arms race that changed history - and of the visionary American Air Force officer Bernard Schriever, who led the high-stakes effort. A Fiery Peace in a Cold War is a masterly work about Schriever’s quests to prevent the Soviet Union from acquiring nuclear superiority, to penetrate and exploit space for America, and to build the first weapons meant to deter an atomic holocaust.

In the heart of America, nestled in the serene town of Oakridge, Mark Henderson, a visionary inventor and loving father, discovers more than just a revolutionary material: he uncovers the key to survival. When global tensions spiral towards the unthinkable, Mark's breakthrough, a formidable alloy that is impervious to nuclear devastation, becomes Oakridge's beacon of hope. "The Silver Fortress" is a gripping tale of courage, family, and the human spirit's unyielding will to protect what is most precious. As an inventor's ultimate test unfolds beneath the shadow of apocalyptic dread, his ...

The late Dr. Michihiko Hachiya was director of the Hiroshima Communications Hospital when the world's first atomic bomb was dropped on the city. Though his responsibilities in the appalling chaos of a devastated city were awesome, he found time to record the story daily, with compassion and tenderness. Dr. Hachiya's compelling diary was originally published by the UNC Press in 1955, with the help of Dr. Warner Wells of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Redeye Fulda Cold by Bill Fortin is a first in series of a "MASH-like" war stories. Set in 1969 West Germany; the deployment of the newly developed Redeye ground to air missile system is brought to bear inside the 3rd Armored Division’s 1st/48th Infantry Battalion. This very inspiring tale inside a very Cold War takes the men of the 3rd Armored Division though a series of history making operations. Carefully crafted CIA planning provides the pause necessary and ultimately prevents a nuclear showdown with Russia. The infamous Fulda Gap becomes the center stage of the action.

What draws our species to war? What makes us see violence as a kind of sacred duty, or a ritual that boys must undergo to "become" men? Newly reissued, Blood Rites takes listeners on an original journey from the elaborate human sacrifices of the ancient world to the carnage and holocaust of 20th-century "total war." Ehrenreich sifts deftly through the fragile records of prehistory and discovers the wellspring of war in an unexpected place - not in a "killer instinct" unique to the males of our species, but in the blood rites early humans performed.

The saga of the alien hybrid, James Ripley, continues in volume 2 of the series. The hybrid alien is Earth's last hope to stop a 93-mile-wide comet on a collision course with Earth. The aliens sent James to Earth as an infant to grow, witness, and record Earth's final chapter, not to save the Earth. But James rebels and decides to fight for Earth despite all its faults. In this hard SciFi, James, a computer programmer, struggles with AI and quantum mechanics to devise a plan using Quantum Tunneling. The ending is a high-tech mind-bender that expands far beyond the dangerous Comet.

The lunar colonies have no lifeline. They must find a way to survive… for the sake of humanity. All Logan wants is to continue his engineering responsibilities and compete in the upcoming moon buggy race. But when disaster strikes, he must step up and negotiate politics, diplomacy and the perils lurking in the solar system to lead the human remnant into the future. A responsibility he doesn't want, but knows he must accept. No one else he trusts wants the job. He pleaded for volunteers! And he knows the alternative is too frightening to even contemplate. But when everything seems headed ...

Seattle, 2040. The Space Needle lies crumpled. Veiled women hurry through the busy streets. Alcohol is outlawed, replaced by Jihad Cola, and mosques dot the skyline. New York and Washington, D.C., are nuclear wastelands. Phoenix is abandoned, Chicago the site of a civil war battle. At the edges of the empire, Islamic and Christian forces fight for control of a very different United States.

Take Me to Your President is another brilliant political satire by the author of The Mouse That Roared. After chasing his dog (who was chasing a rabbit), a simple farmer from a small village in England finds himself inexplicably on board a top-secret intergalactic missile. Before he can sort it out, the farmer finds himself touching down in the United States of America where he is mistaken for a Martian. And now it’s up to him to bring world peace. “Once again Leonard Wibberley—author of The Mouse That Roared—has conjured a unique sort of comedy from a blend of fantasy, blandly ...

Mildred Groves, an unusual young woman gifted and cursed with the ability to see the future, goes to work in a top-secret research facility during WWII, only to be tormented by visions of what the mission will mean for humankind.

Nuclear terrorism is such a disturbing prospect that we shy away from its details. Yet, as a consequence, we fail to understand how best to defeat it. Michael Levi takes us inside nuclear terrorism and behind the decisions a terrorist leader would be faced with in pursuing a nuclear plot. Along the way, Levi identifies the many obstacles, large and small, that such a terrorist scheme might encounter, allowing him to discover a host of ways that any plan might be foiled.