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This reminds me of a short story about Earth being flung from the solar system by a rogue star. People survive, and one family in particular survives by boiling frozen oxygen 'snow' over a fire.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pail_of_Air

http://www.baenebooks.com/chapters/0743498747/0743498747___6...

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Los Alamos, Argonne, and Tana Tuva.

Was Tana Tuva a topic of discussion during this time period? I remember Richard Feynman wrote quite a bit about it, too.

Feynman's friend Ralph Leighton wrote about Felnman's long-standing desire to go there [1]. The BBC Horizon programme had an episode called "The Quest for Tannu Tuva" [2] which might be on youtube.

[1] http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tuva-Bust-Richard-Feynmans-Journey/d...

[2] http://sciencek.com/video/1151/horizon-1988x25-the-quest-for...

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