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Nuclear warfare Nuclear warfare Drama Nuclear warfare Fiction Nuclear warfare Government policy United States History 20th century Nuclear warfare Social aspects Nuclear weapons Nuclear weapons Government policy United States History 20th century Political fiction Survival United StatesSummary: Presents a documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long range affects of nuclear war on civilization.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Severin Films 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA THRReedy, Trent
Summary: Danny Wright is considered to be a hero by many in the rebel held area of Idaho and the Northwest, but he has little faith in what passes for a government there, or in the secretive and repressive Brotherhood--and when nuclear weapons are detonated in Washington, D.C. and New York, the Civil War suddenly turns into World War III.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC REETyler, Madeline
Summary: "Few apocalypses are as scary as nuclear war. What could be more horrifying than doom humans bring upon themselves? Readers of this ultimate survival guide will go on a spine-chilling adventure through a nuclear war. They'll learn tips to survive the extreme destruction. Readers will also learn about cause and effect, and problems and solutions, which are standards of the English Language Arts...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 355.02 TYLSummary: "This 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. Working from a contemporary best seller, screenwriter Walter Bernstein and director Sidney Lumet wrench harrowing suspense from the doomsday...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA FAISummary: "The gripping true story of Stanislav Petrov, a man who single-handedly averted a fullscale nuclear world war, but now struggles to get his life back on track ... before it is too late. An epic and grand Cold War thriller that sends shivers down your spine and shows us just how close we came to apocalypse ... and it's not over yet! With a new Cold War rising and thousands of nuclear weapons on...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MANSummary: Five (1951) Black and White 93 minutes Not Rated Starring: William Phipps, Susan Douglas, James Anderson, Charles Lampkin, Earl Lee When a nuclear bomb destroys the world, only five survivors remain. A pregnant woman, a philosopher, a black man, a banker and an explorer seek shelter in an abandoned house. As the last living human beings, they must work together. However, their clashing visions...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR CLASummary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE XCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE XMECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD XMEForstchen, William R.
Summary: Two years since the detonation of nuclear weapons above the United States brought America to its knees, and after suffering starvation, war, and countless deaths, the survivors of Black Mountain, North Carolina, are beginning to piece back together the technologies they had once taken for granted: electricity, radio communications, and medications. They cling to the hope that a new national...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio 2015
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Summary: An American academic is stranded at a Swiss hotel as the world descends into nuclear war, along with twenty other survivors, who become obsessed with identifying a murderer in their midst after the body of a young girl is discovered in one of the hotel's water tanks.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JAMSummary: Mad Max: In the ravaged near future, a savage motorcycle gang rules the road. Terrorizing innocent civilians while tearing up the streets, the ruthless gang laughs in the face of a police force bent on stopping them. But they underestimate one officer: Max Rockatansky. And when the bikers brutalized Max's best friend and family, they send him into a mad frenzy that leaves him with only one...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: The Camel Club is a four-man group of Washington, D.C. misfits, that meet weekly to discuss political conspiracies they believe exist and what actions they might take. One night club members witness the murder of Secret Service employee Patrick Johnson, thus thrusting the wacky crew into the middle of a bigger conspiracy than they could ever have imagined.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Time Warner AudioBooks 2005
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BALSummary: Austin Powers, international man of mystery: Secret agent Austin Powers is thawed back into action after being frozen for thirty years. The time-warped swinger has to battle again with his archenemy Dr. Evil and stop his plot to control the world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY AUSSummary: Miracle mile: A young man named Harry hears a chance phone call telling him that a nuclear war has started and missiles will hit Los Angeles in less than two hours. Not sure if the whole thing is a dire warning or a harmless prank, Harry races through the city, fighting mobs of terrified people in a desperate search for Julie, a young woman he only met yesterday and the one person with whom he...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MIRSummary: "A couple face a nuclear holocaust with only the instruction from the government's infamous 'Protect and survive' leaflet to help them."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Film Four Ltd. 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WHEEllsberg, Daniel
Summary: The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation Senior Fellow and iconic whistleblower who revealed the Pentagon Papers presents an eyewitness expos©♭ of the dangers of America's secret, long-standing nuclear policy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 355 ELLCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 355 ELLSherwin, Martin J.
Summary: Sherwin sets the Cuban Missile Crisis, with its potential for nuclear holocaust, in a wider historical narrative of the Cold War: how such a crisis arose, and why at the very last possible moment it didn't happen. He gives us a riveting explanation of the crisis itself, while also exploring the origins, scope, and consequences of the evolving place of nuclear weapons in the post WWII world....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 972.9106 SHESummary: "Fallout 76 is the online prequel where every surviving human is a real person. Work together -- or not -- to survive. Under the threat of nuclear annihilation, you'll experience the largest, most dynamic world ever created in the legendary Fallout universe. Reclamation Day, 2102. 25 years after the bombs fall, you and your fellow Vault Dwellers -- chosen from the nation's best and brightest --...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Video Games, Call number: GAME PS4 FALSummary: War game: A dramatization of the possible effects of nuclear warfare on Great Britain. Explores the physical damage effects, the psychological effects on the survivors, the societal logic for the existence of nuclear arms, and the attempts to understand how the balance of power keeps atomic weapons in check.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2006
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV WARSummary: Featured are a series of comic sketches about a post-nuclear London: a girl is seventeen months pregnant, a father turns into a parrot, a man becomes a chest of drawers, and another man becomes a bed sitting room.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BEDGraff, Garrett M.
Summary: "The eye-opening truth about the government's secret plans to survive a catastrophic attack on US soil--even if the rest of us die--a roadmap that spans from the dawn of the nuclear age to today"--Provided by publisher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363 GRAFormat: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1983
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Summary: When Japan invades Russia for its oil, the American government sends a squadron of aircraft to help defend Russia, leading to high-tech dog fights between American F-22s and Japanese Zero fighters.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COOThomas, Evan
Summary: Examines the White House years of Dwight Eisenhower and reveals the former president, often viewed as a doddering lightweight, as a brilliant, intellectual tactician who could be patient and ruthless, and generous and self-serving.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2012