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The Effects of Nuclear War (1979), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
Controlling Threats to Nuclear Security: A Holistic Model (1997), by James L. Ford and C. R. Schuller (page images at Google)
Post-Cold War Conflict Deterrence (1997), by National Research Council Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications (page images with commentary at NAP)
Lives in the Balance: The Cold War and American Politics, 1945-1991 (c1992), by Moti Nissani (HTML at Wayback Machine)
Dynamic Stability: A New Concept for Deterrence (Maxwell Air Force Base, AL: Air University Press, 1987), by Fred J. Reule, Harvey J. Crawford, Daniel S. Papp, and Grover E. Myers (page images at HathiTrust)
The Nuclear Seduction: Why the Arms Race Doesn't Matter--And What Does (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by William A. Schwartz and Charles Derber (HTML at UC Press)
Disarmament: Atoms Into Plowshares? (Headline Series #113; New York: Foreign Policy Association, 1955), by William R. Frye (multiple formats at archive.org)
Strategy in the Missile Age (1959), by Bernard Brodie (PDF files with commentary at rand.org)

Filed under: Nuclear warfare -- Comic books, strips, etc.

Atomic War! (4 issues; Canton, OH: Junior Books, 1952-1953)
World War III: The War That Will Never Happen if America Remains Strong and Alert (2 issues, published by Ace Comics, 1952 or 1953)
- Issue 1 (March): multiple formats at archive.org
- Issue 2 (May): multiple formats at archive.org

Filed under: Nuclear warfare -- Environmental aspects -- Congresses

The Medical Implications of Nuclear War, by Institute of Medicine (U.S.), ed. by Fredric Solomon and Robert Marston (page images with commentary at NAP)

Filed under: Nuclear warfare -- Health aspects -- Congresses

The Medical Implications of Nuclear War, by Institute of Medicine (U.S.), ed. by Fredric Solomon and Robert Marston (page images with commentary at NAP)

Filed under: Nuclear warfare -- Psychological aspects -- Congresses

The Medical Implications of Nuclear War, by Institute of Medicine (U.S.), ed. by Fredric Solomon and Robert Marston (page images with commentary at NAP)

Filed under: Nuclear warfare -- Social aspects -- Congresses

The Medical Implications of Nuclear War, by Institute of Medicine (U.S.), ed. by Fredric Solomon and Robert Marston (page images with commentary at NAP)

Filed under: Nuclear warfare -- Environmental aspects

Worldwide Effects of Nuclear War: Some Perspectives, by United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (Gutenberg text)

Filed under: Nuclear warfare -- Fiction

Project Cyclops (c1992), by Thomas Hoover (Gutenberg multiple formats)
The Creature from Cleveland Depths (as published in Galaxy magazine, 1962), by Fritz Leiber, illust. by Wallace Wood (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
Alas, Babylon (c1959), by Pat Frank (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
Forbidden Area (c1956), by Pat Frank (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
Nuclear Holocaust: Never Again, by R. J. Rummel (PDF at Hawaii)
The World Set Free, by H. G. Wells (Gutenberg text)

Filed under: Nuclear warfare -- Fiction -- Bibliography

Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction (online edition, last revised 2015), by Paul Brians (HTML at wsu.edu)

Filed under: Nuclear warfare -- Moral and ethical aspects

No More Nagasakis: Interfaith Action Toward a World Without Nuclear Weapons (in English and Japanese; Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, c2018), by Toyokazu Ihara, trans. by Hirokazu Miyazaki and Xavier Riles Miyazaki (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)
The Hundredth Monkey, by Ken Keyes (HTML with commentary at wowzone.com)

Filed under: Nuclear warfare -- Periodicals

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (partial serial archives)

Filed under: Nuclear warfare -- Psychological aspects

Air War and Emotional Stress: Psychological Studies of Bombing and Civilian Defense (first edition; New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1951), by Irving L. Janis (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Nuclear warfare -- Safety measures

Ten for Survival: Survive Nuclear Attack (May 1959, reprinted January 1961), by United States Office of Civil Defense (multiple formats at archive.org)
Nuclear War Survival Skills (1987 edition), by Cresson H. Kearny, contrib. by Edward Teller (illustrated HTML at oism.org)

Filed under: Nuclear warfare in art

Nuclear Texts and Contexts (partial serial archives)

Filed under: First strike (Nuclear strategy)

Footnotes to History: Selected Speeches And Writings Of Edmund A. Walsh, S.J., Founder of The School of Foreign Service (Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1990), by Edmund A. Walsh, ed. by Anna Watkins (PDF at Georgetown)

Filed under: Literature

Literature Matters (London: Open Humanities Press, 2016), by J. Hillis Miller, ed. by Monika Reif-Hülser (PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)
Literature, the Humanities, and Humanity (Geneseo, NY: Open SUNY Textbooks, 2013), by Theodore L. Steinberg (multiple formats with commentary at milneopentextbooks.org)
Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres de l'Université de Liège (in French) (partial serial archives)
Essays in the History of Ideas (originally published 1948; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Arthur O. Lovejoy (illustrated HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
Humanistic Studies (partial serial archives)
Lectures and Addresses on Literary and Social Topics (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1859), by Frederick William Robertson
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
The Relation of Literature to Life, by Charles Dudley Warner (Gutenberg text)
Saturday Papers: Essays on Literature From the Literary Review (first (and only known) volume of selections from The Literary Review of the New York Post; New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Henry Seidel Canby, William Rose Benét, and Amy Loveman (page images at HathiTrust)
Opinions, Literary and Otherwise (New York: Macmillan, 1934), by Henry W. Taft (page images at HathiTrust)
Sketches of Art, Literature, and Character (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1885), by Mrs. Jameson (multiple formats at archive.org)

Filed under: Literature -- Aesthetics

Towards the Ethics of Form in Fiction: Narratives of Cultural Remission (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Leona Toker (PDF at Ohio State)

Filed under: Literature -- Anecdotes

Curiosities of Literature (3 volumes; London: G. Routledge and Co., 1858), by Isaac Disraeli, ed. by Benjamin Disraeli
Curiosities of Literature (compilation of articles originally published in editions from 1798-1823), by Isaac Disraeli, ed. by Stuart Heath (HTML at spamula.net)

Filed under: Literature -- Bibliography

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern (special edition, 31 volumes; New York: The International Society, c1896-1899), ed. by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Gilbert Runkle, and George H. Warner (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Literature -- Collections

Authors Digest: The World's Great Stories in Brief, Prepared by a Staff of Literary Experts, With the Assistance of Many Living Novelists (20 volumes; New York: Issued under the auspices of the Authors Press, c1908), ed. by Rossiter Johnson
The Bed-Book of Happiness (London et al.: Hodder and Stoughton, 1914), ed. by Harold Begbie (Gutenberg text)
Half-Hours With the Best Authors, Including Biographical and Critical Notices (revised edition, 4 volumes; London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1866), ed. by Charles Knight, illust. by William Harvey
The Harvard Classics (50 volumes; New York: P.F. Collier and Son, 1909-1917), ed. by Charles William Eliot and William Allan Neilson
- page images at HathiTrust
- without volume 50 ("Editor's Introduction..."): HTML at Bartleby
The Library of Romance: A Collection of Traditions, Poetical Legends, and Short Standard Tales and Romances, of All Nations (London: O. Hodgson, 1837) (page images at HathiTrust)
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern (special edition, 31 volumes; New York: The International Society, c1896-1899), ed. by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Gilbert Runkle, and George H. Warner (page images at HathiTrust)
Little Classics (18 volumes), ed. by Rossiter Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
The Pocket University (23 volumes; Garden City, NY: Pub. for N. Doubleday, Inc. by Doubleday, Page and Co., 1924), ed. by Bliss Perry, Thomas L. Masson, Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson, George Iles, Hamilton Wright Mabie, and Lyman Abbott (page images at HathiTrust)
A Book for a Corner: or, Selections in Prose and Verse From Authors the Best Suited to That Mode of Enjoyment; With Comments on Each, and a General Introduction (New York: Derby and Jackson, 1857), ed. by Leigh Hunt (multiple formats at archive.org)
Oriental Literature (4 volumes in The Worlds Great Classics, revised editions; New York and London: Colonial Press, c1899-1900), ed. by Richard J. H. Gottheil and Epiphanius Wilson

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