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Author
Series
Marcus Ryker novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Joel C. Rosenberg returns with a high-stakes political thriller set in Russia. Everything he learned to protect the president, he must use to take out theirs. With an American president distracted by growing tensions in North Korea and Iran, an ominous new threat is emerging in Moscow. A czar is rising in the Kremlin, a Russian president feverishly consolidating power, silencing his opposition, and plotting a brazen...
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
The thrilling, eye-opening chapter you've been waiting for...witness the beginning of the X-Men universe. Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their superhuman powers for the first time, working together in a desperate attempt to stop the Hellfire Club and a global nuclear war.
Pub. Date
c2017
Description
The fight to survive has torn them apart, turned them against each other, and taken the lives of their closest friends. Last season, a new, even more dangerous threat arose: the A.I. that ended the world was building an army dedicated to controlling all sentient life on Earth. No longer a battle between warring factions; it was a fight for humanity itself. The 100 face their darkest chapter yet.
Description
A group of paranoia-inspired, war-happy generals manage to initiate an "accidential" nuclear apocalypse. Joint Chief of Staff "Buck" Turgidson and Air Force Strategic Commander Jack Ripper, order a bomber squadron to attack the USSR. This triggers a Soviet secret weapon called the 'Doomsday Machine.' The weapon is a diabolical retaliatory missile system. In an attempt to advert this catastrophe, British Captain Lionel Mandrake becomes the only person...
9) Fail safe
Series
Criterion collection volume 1011
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
The unnerving procedural thriller painstakingly details an all-too-plausible nightmare scenario in which a mechanical failure jams the United States military's chain of command and sends the country hurtling toward nuclear war with the Soviet Union.
10) Future justice
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
When a nuclear war reduces the world's population, some of the only survivors are scientists housed in warehouse bunkers.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Reunited with the survivors of the space-station Ark that fell to Earth, Clarke Griffin and her band of juvenile delinquents have faced death at every turn: from a world transformed by radiation to the fierce Grounders who somehow managed to survive it, and the double-dealing Mountain Men from the fortified Mount Weather, whose civilized environment masked a horrible secret.
Series
Pub. Date
2007, c1962
Description
This is not a test : A police officer stops travelers at a road block and informs them that the country is under a missile attack.
Killers from space : Aliens need a new habitat and after having chosen Earth they unleash giant bugs, gila monsters and roaches.
Wasp woman : A business woman in search of a new cosmetic product turns to a scientist studying wasps. After an injection of anti-aging wasp serum the woman turns into a hideous half wasp-half...
13) Rocketship X-M
Series
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
Four men and one woman take off to the Moon but are knocked off course by a meteor shower. They are forced to land on Mars, a planet devastated by atomic warfare and populated by deadly radiation-scarred mutants.
Pub. Date
2007
Description
The Road Warrior: In a world destroyed by the ravages of nuclear war, gasoline is the currency of the realm. Enter Max, champion of underdog survivors living a fuel camp.
Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome: This time, Max defends the future- a group of abandoned children- and enters the gladiatorial maces-and-chainsaws combat inside Thunderdome arena.
15) Threads
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
A dramatization of the possible environmental, physical, and psychological consequences of a nuclear attack on England. The story centers on the lives of two young people and their families in Sheffield, England during the events leading up to the attack and for thirteen years afterwards.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Tells the story of the origins of the X-Men as Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr discover their powers, join forces to work for Division X, and seek out other mutants to prevent a global nuclear war; Wolverine is sent into the past to try to prevent an event which will result in doom for both humans and mutants.
Series
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
'Millions Flee from Cities! End of the World!' From a Manhattan skyscraper, Ralph Burton surveys the emptiness announced by that chilling newspaper headline. Nuclear doomsday has come. Ralph is sure he is the last person alive. Then a woman appears and the two form a cautious friendship that's threatened when a third survivor arrives.