Worldwar series by Harry Turtledove – alternate history: World War II turns nuclear in 1943; another nuclear war in the 1960s Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O'Brien Short stories "The Blast" by Stuart Cloete (1947), published in 6 Great Short Novels of Science Fiction, ed. Groff Conklin, 1954 "Thunder and Roses" (1947) by Theodore Sturgeon "Not with a Bang" (1949) by Damon Knight "The Last Word" (1956) by Damon Knight "A Clean Escape" (1985) by John Kessel "The 16th October 1985" (2009) by James Plumridge "The Edge of the Knife" (1957) by H. Beam Piper "Lot" (1953) and "Lot's Daughter" (1954) by Ward Moore (inspiration for the film Panic in Year Zero!) "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Ray Bradbury (1950) "Preview of the War We Do Not Want", published in Collier's Magazine (1951) "If I Forget Thee, Oh Earth" by Arthur C. Clarke – featuring a boy living in a colony on the moon, left isolated by the destruction of the Earth "A Boy and His Dog" by Harlan Ellison (1969) "Fermi and Frost" by Frederik Pohl (1985) "Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man's Back" by Joe R. Lansdale (1986) "The Custodians" by Richard Cowper "Summer Thunder" by Stephen King "By the Waters of Babylon" by Stephen Vincent Benet (1937) Short story collections Countdown To Midnight, 1984, edited by H. Bruce Franklin Beyond Armageddon, 1985, edited by Walter M. Miller, Jr. and Martin Harry Greenberg Nuclear War, 1988, edited by Gregory Benford and Martin Harry Greenberg The Folk of the Fringe, 1989, Orson Scott Card Comics 2000AD/Judge Dredd, set in a post-war Earth where the majority of the United States is called the "Cursed Earth" Akira features Tokyo after a nuclear conflict. AXA, set in the aftermath of a nuclear- and biological war with heroine AXA fighting against evil Barefoot Gen, Japanese manga about life after the Hiroshima bombing Cobalt 60 by Vaughn Bodē, Mark Bodē and Larry Todd, set in a post-apocalyptic world Fist of the North Star, a Japanese comic franchise set in a post-nuclear Earth Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, a Japanese graphic novel, later partly adapted in film, set in a far, post-apocalyptic future, rife with themes of bioethics, environmentalism, genetics and psionics The Punisher: The End, a one-shot issue of Marvel Comic's Punisher by Garth Ennis and Richard Corben Strontium Dog, set in a post-nuclear war earth where many humans