nuclear warfare

Published on behalf of the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment. Discusses the climactic changes which could result in worldwide famine.

The common theme of nuclear disaster and human vulnerability interweaves the lives of four young people, an Ojibway Indian, an illegal Mexican migrant worker, a rock musician, and a sheep rancher's daughter, with the lives of three veterans of past wars.

Examines the issues and questions posed by civil defense in the nuclear age and the related controversy over the arms race and the nuclear freeze movement.

Discusses the history, weapons, and probable effects of nuclear warfare, as well as the dangers of global extinction and possible alternatives.

Many years after a nuclear war, scholars seeking the old learning come to a monastery where much knowledge has been preserved.

The common theme of nuclear disaster and human vulnerability interweaves the lives of four young people, an Ojibway Indian, an illegal Mexican migrant worker, a rock musician, and a sheep rancher's daughter with the lives of three veterans of past wars.

Discusses the origin, spread, and main types of nuclear weapons, humanity's attempts to control them, the possible developments and aftermath of nuclear warfare, and the nuclear disarmament movement.

After a plane crash strands them on a tropical island while the rest of the world is ravaged by war, a group of British schoolboys attempts to form a civilized society but descends into brutal anarchy.