On the Beach | Literary Precedents
The theme of the end of the world was explored in Whitley Streiber and James W. Kunetka's Warday (1984). In Warday, however, the human race does not come to an end; the Soviet Union and the United States have pulverized each other, and both countries are at the point of disintegration (we see mostly the U.S. perspective).
Similar, though, is the matter-of-fact reportage of occurrences too enormous to easily contemplate. Fail-Safe, by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler (1962), also recounts in a calm, yet chilling, tone the effects of a nuclear confrontation...
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