In 1995, Coffee House Press released an anthology of poetry titled Atomic Ghost: Poets Respond to the Nuclear Age, addressing the possibility of nuclear apocalypse. The collection, edited by John Bradley, contains poems from more than one hundred poets, including Adrienne Rich and William Dickey.  

Paul Brian's Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction, 1895-1984 (1986) provides a highly readable and detailed annotated bibliography of fiction depicting nuclear war and its aftermath.  

Marguerite Duras's screenplay of Alain Resnais's 1959 film Hiroshima Mon Amour was reissued by Grove Press in 1987. The film tells the story of an unidentified French woman and a Japanese man, both married, who are having a brief love affair in Hiroshima many years after World War II. Both struggle to escape their past and live in the present.  

John Hersey's classic Hiroshima (1946) focuses on the lives of six...