This Nevil Shute novel depicts the coming annihilation of the human race after a nuclear war
The novel 
tells how in 1962 a nuclear war begins with the bombing of Tel Aviv and ends .... 
total annihilation of the human species that could very easily come with it, have 
cast... [DOC] [TLE] Chapter One: The History of Nuclear War in Fiction [PAR] Although some of our fiction depicts lengthy atomic warfare, most of it ...