Talk:List of nuclear holocaust fiction/Original lists

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Strangely forgotten

 * Canticle for Leibowitz

Books

 * The Chrysalids by John Wyndham, set in a post-Nuclear Holocaust World.
 * On the Beach by Nevil Shute, set in a post-Nuclear Holocaust World.
 * Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O'Brien, set in a post-Nuclear Holocaust World.

Music

 * Fight Fire With Fire by Metallica, The first song off their second album, Ride the Lightning
 * 2 Minutes To Midnight by Iron Maiden, on the subject of the Cold War.
 * Nuclear Holocaust by Holocaust 427

Films

 * Crimson Tide
 * The Day After, about the effects of World War III on the Kansas City, Missouri area of the United States.
 * Damnation Alley, a science fiction tale about the start and aftermath of World War III, and its effects on a group of survivors in an environmentally damaged world.
 * Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
 * On the Beach, based on the novel
 * Threads
 * WarGames, directed by John Badham, about a teen who plays with a NORAD computer and almost starts World War III.
 * Mad Max, an Australian apocalyptic science fiction film starring Mel Gibson which was first released in Australia in 1979, and internationally in 1980.

Games

 * Blast Corps, about a destruction crew that must clear the way for a nuclear payload or the result would be nuclear winter.
 * Fallout, a classic groundbreaking RPG set in a post-nuclear Earth.
 * DEFCON, loosely based on WarGames movie.
 * CIVILIZATION SERIES, the game is about researching many types of warfare, and towards end of game Nuclear WMD are often deployed to large parts of the world — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.33.32.96 (talk) 13:42, 22 March 2017 (UTC)

From Jericho (TV series)]

 * Alas, Babylon, a 1959 novel about a small Florida town dealing with the aftermath of a nuclear attack.
 * Arc Light, a 1994 novel by Eric L. Harry about the involvement of the United States in a limited nuclear war between the Soviet Union and China, and the subsequent invasion of the USSR.
 * ''Lights Out a novel about the effects of an EMP burst, set in a isolated Texas town. Written by David Crawford (Halffast).
 * The Day After, a 1983 television movie set in Kansas following a nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union.
 * Jericho, premiering in 2006, a television series set in rural Kansas depicting the struggles of an isolated farming community.
 * Panic in Year Zero!, a 1962 movie about a family that escapes Los Angeles that was devastated by a nuclear attack.
 * The Postman, a 1985 post-apocalyptic novel by David Brin.
 * Red Dawn, a 1984 film about freedom fighters in a small town in Colorado after an invasion of the United States by Soviet and Cuban forces who used nuclear weapons as a targeted first strike.
 * Testament, a 1983 movie about a small California town dealing with the aftermath of a nuclear attack.
 * Threads, a 1984 BBC television movie depicting life in a small town from 6 months before to 17 years after nuclear war.
 * Warday, a 1984 novel about the circa 1993 state of the US and the world following a limited exchange between the US and the Soviet Union in 1988.

From Threads

 * The Day After, an American made-for-television film. The film critic Steve Rose has said that "Threads was to The Day After what Coronation Street was to Dynasty".
 * The War Game, another nuclear war film the BBC made in 1965, banned from television until the 1980s.
 * Dead Man's Letters, a Soviet film on the aftermath of nuclear war

From The Day After

 * Films and television productions:
 * Amerika (American Broadcasting Company, 1987), a peaceful takeover of United States by the Soviet Union.
 * Barefoot Gen (1983), based on the actual atomic bombing of Hiroshima
 * Black Rain, (1989)
 * Broken Arrow, (1996)
 * By Dawn's Early Light (HBO, 1990)
 * Countdown to Looking Glass (HBO, 1984)
 * Dead Man's Letters, (1986)
 * Dr. Strangelove, (1964)
 * Fail-Safe, (1964)
 * Jericho (CBS, 2006)
 * Miracle Mile, (1988)
 * On the Beach (1958; Showcase, 2000)
 * Red Dawn, (1984)
 * The Sacrifice (Sweden, 1986)
 * The Sum Of All Fears, (2002)
 * Testament (PBS, 1983)
 * Thirteen Days, (2000)
 * True Lies, (1994)
 * The War Game (BBC, 1965)
 * Threads, (BBC, 1984)
 * WarGames, (1983)
 * When the Wind Blows, (1986)


 * Books:
 * Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
 * Arc Light by Eric Harry
 * Down to a Sunless Sea by David Graham
 * Resurrection Day by Brendan DuBois
 * Swan Song by Robert McCammon
 * Twilight: 2000, role playing game
 * Warday by Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka