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Articles which originally appeared, in slightly different form, in the "New Yorker", about individuals whose lives have been dramatically affected by the atomic age.

A nuclear blast sends Hugh Farnham and his family flying two thousand years into the future where humans are forced into slavery as punishment for having nearly destroyed the world.

"Wherever Hel looks, New York City is both reassuringly familiar and terribly wrong. As one of the thousands who fled the outbreak of nuclear war in an alternate United States--and alternate timeline, somewhere across the multiverse--she finds herself living as a refugee in our own not-so-parallel New York. The slang and technology are foreign to her, the politics and art unrecognizable. While others, like her partner Vikram, attempt to assimilate,...

Traces the development of nuclear weapons from 1945 to the present and examines the arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union, the likely results of nuclear warfare, and the progress of arms control and disarmament.

In a post-nuclear civilization chaos reigns, with only pockets of order. One such place is Deseret, formed from the vestiges of Utah, Colorado, and Idaho, where hardworking pioneers are making the desert bloom again.

A dazzling, multilayered novel that not only encompasses a searing love story but, with its epic reach from quarks to mythology to geopolitics, also encapsulates the fate of the entire world. As Mumbai empties under the threat of imminent nuclear annihilation, Sarita, a thirty-three-year-old statistician, can only think of one thing: being reunited with Karun, her physicist husband. Why has he vanished? Who is he running from? How will they form the...

After an accidental nuclear explosion off the coast of California, Philip searches for his family through a heavily militarized and devastated Los Angeles.

Following a nuclear strike against the United States, families in small-town Kansas try to survive as radiation slowly kills everything around them.

A young CIA analyst uncovers a plot by terrorists to cause the US and Russia to fight a world war.