James William Kunetka (born September 29, 1944) is an American writer best known for his

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Warday ''Warday'' is a novel by Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka, first published in 1984. It is a fictional account of the authors travelling across the U.S. five years after a limited nuclear attack in order to assess how the nation has changed ...

'' and '' Nature's End''. He has also written non-fiction on the topic of the

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Early life and education

Kunetka was born and grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He received a BA in Political Science from the University of Texas at Austin.

Career

Kunetka's first book, ''City of Fire'', was published in 1978. He co-wrote two novels with his long time friend

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, including his best known book, ''Warday''. A film about this book was planned, but never filmed. In 2000, Kunetka was the director of communications and constituent relations at the

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. He also served as an associate vice president of the university before retirement.

Bibliography

*''City of fire: Los Alamos and the birth of the Atomic Age, 1943-1945'' (1978) () *''Oppenheimer: The Years of Risk'' (1982) () *''Warday'' (1984), with

() *''Nature's End'' (1986), with

() *''Shadow Man'' (1988) () *''Parting Shot'' (1991) () *''The General and the Genius: Groves and Oppenheimer'' (2015) (

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, )

References

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