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Nuclear Warfare Books

Books selected for readers looking for nuclear warfare books.

37 booksApril 2, 2026

Part of 500+ tracked lists·52% reader overlap with Cold War Books

1. Nuclear War
Annie Jacobsen, Penguin Audio
Fits this list for its focus on nuclear.
Shelf signal: Nuclear Warfare
2. The Devil Reached Toward the Sky
Garrett M. Graff
Fits this list for its focus on nuclear.
Shelf signal: Nuclear Warfare
3. Command and Control
Eric Schlosser, Scott Brick
Fits this list for its focus on nuclear.
Shelf signal: Nuclear Warfare
4. Atoms and Ashes
Serhii Plokhy, Leighton Pugh
Fits this list for its focus on nuclear.
Shelf signal: Nuclear Warfare
5. Nuclear Folly
Serhii Plokhy, Keith Sellon-Wright
Fits this list for its focus on nuclear.
Shelf signal: Nuclear Warfare
6. The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Holter Graham, Richard Rhodes
Fits this list for its focus on nuclear.
Shelf signal: Nuclear Warfare
7. Destroyer of Worlds
Frank Close
Fits this list for its focus on nuclear.
Shelf signal: Nuclear Warfare
8. The Doomsday Machine
Daniel Ellsberg
Fits this list for its focus on nuclear.
Shelf signal: Nuclear Warfare
9. The Warhead
Jeffrey E. Stern
Fits this list for its focus on warfare.
Shelf signal: Weapons Through History
10. Almighty
Dan Zak
Fits this list for its focus on nuclear.
Shelf signal: Nuclear Warfare
11. Nagasaki
Susan Southard, Traci Kato-Kiriyama
Fits this list for its focus on nuclear.
Shelf signal: Nuclear Warfare
12. New Cold Wars
David E. Sanger, Mary K. Brooks
Fits this list for its focus on nuclear.
Shelf signal: Cold War History
13. Fallout
Steve Sheinkin
Included for strong history alignment with this nuclear warfare list.
Shelf signal: Nuclear Warfare
14. The Dead Hand
David Hoffman, David E. Hoffman
Fits this list for its focus on nuclear.
Shelf signal: Nuclear Warfare
15. Hiroshima
John Hersey
Fits this list for its focus on nuclear and warfare.
Shelf signal: Nuclear Warfare
16. Nuclear Choices for the Twenty-first Century
Richard Wolfson, Ferenc Dalnoki-Veress
Fits this list for its focus on nuclear.
Shelf signal: Nuclear Warfare
17. The Manhattan Project
Cynthia C. Kelly
Included for strong history alignment with this nuclear warfare list.
Shelf signal: Nuclear Warfare
18. Black Snow
James M. Scott
Included for strong japanese alignment with this nuclear warfare list.
Shelf signal: WWII Pacific Theater
19. The Myth of the Nuclear Revolution
Keir A. Lieber, Daryl G. Press
Fits this list for its focus on nuclear.
Shelf signal: Nuclear Warfare
20. Midnight in Chernobyl
Adam Higginbotham
Fits this list for its focus on nuclear.
Shelf signal: Nuclear Warfare
21. Hiroshima
M. G. Sheftall
Included for strong history alignment with this nuclear warfare list.
Shelf signal: Nuclear Warfare
22. The Most Awful Responsibility
Alex Wellerstein
Strong fit for this nuclear warfare list in the nuclear warfare lane.
Shelf signal: Nuclear Warfare
23. Chernobyl
Serhii Plokhy
Fits this list for its focus on nuclear.
Shelf signal: Eastern European History
24. The General Vs. the President
Scott Brick, H. W. Brands
Fits this list for its focus on nuclear.
Shelf signal: Korean War History