As a result of the extensive nuclear fallout of the 1954 Castle Bravo nuclear detonation , author Nevil Shute wrote the popular novel '' On the Beach '' which was released in 1957 , in this novel so much fallout is generated in a nuclear war that all human life is extinguished . However the premise that all of humanity would die following a nuclear war and only the " cockroaches would survive " is critically dealt with in the 1988 book '' Would the Insects Inherit the Earth and Other Subjects of Concern to Those Who Worry About Nuclear War '' by nuclear weapons expert Philip J. Dolan
Castle Bravo
Castle Bravo
Nuclear holocaust