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• 1 • Introduction (Nuclear War) • essay by Gregory Benford
• 5 • The Nightmare • (1946) • novelette by Chan Davis [as by Chandler Davis]
• 25 • Thunder and Roses • (1947) • novelette by Theodore Sturgeon
• 49 • The Weapon • (1951) • short story by Fredric Brown
• 53 • Triggerman • (1958) • short story by J. F. Bone
• 64 • The Day They Got Boston • (1961) • short story by Herbert Gold
• 73 • The Big Flash • (1969) • novelette by Norman Spinrad
• 95 • To Howard Hughes: A Modest Proposal • (1974) • short story by Joe Haldeman [as by Joe W. Haldeman]
• 114 • Men Like Us • (1980) • novelette by David Drake
• 133 • Executive Clemency • (1981) • short story by Gardner Dozois and Jack C. Haldeman, II
• 149 • The Last Child into the Mountain • (1983) • short story by Michael Bishop and Lee Ellis
• 165 • Heavenly Flowers • (1983) • short story by Pamela Sargent
• 177 • Nuclear Autumn • (1985) • short story by Ben Bova
• 181 • To the Storming Gulf • (1985) • novella by Gregory Benford