I can remember a scene from an *early* (late 40’s, early 50’s) novel about nuclear war that has a nuclear bomb going off in or just above an American city. The scene in question goes into some detail about the effects of the blast; I recall being impressed with not just the detail, but the grimness of the description. But for the live of me I can’t recall what the book was. I *thought* it was “Alas, Babylon,” but I’ve gone back and forth through the book, and it doesn’t seem to be there.
I know that’s vague, but does this sound at all familiar to anyone? Sadly my collection of fiction books got thinned out after Utah (and will thin out some more shortly). I used to have a great big dedicated “apocalypse” section, but it’s scattered and tattered now.