When the World Dies What if, when leaving the bunker after living through a nuclear attack, we discover ourselves to be the last persons on Earth? Annie Jacobsen’s Nuclear War </em>tells of an obliterating 1-megaton thermonuclear scenario: “Ground zero is zeroed. Traveling at the speed of light, the radiating heat from the fireball ignites everything flammable within its sight several miles out…”  I tell of how we got to ground zero, a story contrasted with the current “Age of Barbie.