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  • We'll be able to create living creatures with chemicals and electricity and nuclear power.   (source)
    nuclear = coming from the center of an atom where protons & neutrons reside
  • The most gifted among them, who might possibly become nuclei of discontent, are simply marked down by the Thought Police and eliminated.   (source)
    nuclei = centers
  • The rays simply destroyed body cells — caused their nuclei to degenerate and broke their walls.   (source)
  • He tried to poke it out with his fingers, but his shivering frame made him poke too far, and he disrupted the nucleus of the little fire, the burning grasses and tiny twigs separating and scattering.   (source)
    nucleus = the center (or most important part) of something
  • Might it not, in the tedious lapse of official life that lay before me, finally be with me as it was with this venerable friend—to make the dinner-hour the nucleus of the day, and to spend the rest of it, as an old dog spends it, asleep in the sunshine or in the shade?   (source)
    nucleus = the most important part
  • It was what I'd always pictured being fried in a nuclear blast would be like.†   (source)
  • There are desks set up for each delegate, and onstage there is a podium where a girl in a black suit is making a speech about nuclear nonproliferation.†   (source)
  • —the Yom Kippur War of '73 when Syria and Egypt launched a surprise attack on Israel, nearly triggering another nuclear war—†   (source)
  • In recent months, Malenkov had made no secret of his disagreement with Khrushchev regarding nuclear armament.†   (source)
  • She was an academic star in high school and later earned a college degree, the first in her nuclear family to do so.†   (source)
  • The protest against continued nuclear weapons testing was a huge success, with seventy thousand people marching through the streets of London.†   (source)
  • Where his eyes should've been, there was only fire, empty sockets glowing with miniature nuclear explosions.†   (source)
  • It's like a strange, nuclear landscape.†   (source)
  • And let me tell you, that old, old, old, decrepit geometry book hit my heart with the force of a nuclear bomb.†   (source)
  • But not the kind used in nuclear bombs.†   (source)
  • Looks like a nuclear holocaust out here.†   (source)
  • And they are nuclear explosions billions of miles away.†   (source)
  • Then Michael started saying all this totally unfair stuff about Josh Richter, like how in the face of nuclear armageddon he'd probably show cowardice, but Lilly said fear of new things is not an accurate measure of one's potential for growth, with which I agreed.†   (source)
  • She passed wells and thought about drinking-water contamination; she wondered how far away the closest nuclear power plant was.†   (source)
  • Here I am, talking about nuclear war and the usual, self-righteous, American arrogance, and Canon Mackie wants to talk about me.†   (source)
  • The first thing I saw were the two cones of a nuclear plant, and smoke spreading from them in complicated but seemingly purposeful patterns, edges lit by the rising sun, like a gray, intricate map of an unexplored island continent, against the pale unscratched blue of the sky.†   (source)
  • Our interests lie with an atom's nucleus-a mere ten-thousandth the size of the whole.†   (source)
  • But we're small, we're weak, and we don't develop nuclear weapons," says Haymitch with a touch of sarcasm.†   (source)
  • Stillbirths, miscarriages, and genetic deformities were widespread and on the increase, and this trend has been linked to the various nuclear-plant accidents, shutdowns, and incidents of sabotage that characterized the period, as well as to leakages from chemical —and biological-warfare stockpiles and toxic-waste disposal sites, of which there were many thousands, both legal and illegal — in some instances these materials were simply dumped into the sewage system — and to the uncontrolled use of chemical insecticides, herbicides, and other sprays.†   (source)
  • MASTER NUCLEAR WEAPONS, SCARE THE AMERICAN BARBARIANS, the slogan said.†   (source)
  • Not to mention the countless natural resources that had been destroyed through nuclear and chemical warfare.†   (source)
  • Then he added casually, like he was talking about how to fix a toaster, "Besides, a nuclear device can't do much damage in the vacuum of space.†   (source)
  • This should be emphasized because, as has already been revealed, they escape otherwise completely unharmed and the deadly nuclear missiles do not eventually hit the ship.†   (source)
  • Maisie would go nuclear.†   (source)
  • Even Holly's beacon was a few shades below par, and that had a micro nuclear battery sending out the pulses.†   (source)
  • One of the most famous accidents in history, for example, was the near meltdown at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island nuclear station in 1979.†   (source)
  • It was like having a pet nuclear device.†   (source)
  • He was turning pink, flushed, a nuclear sunburn.†   (source)
  • To provide a dramatic frame, I collapsed events into a single time and place, a car circling a lake on a quiet afternoon in midsummer, using the lake as a nucleus around which the story would orbit.†   (source)
  • Excess ganglia radiate from a thick nucleus above my sternum to filaments everywhere-a nightmare of nematodes.†   (source)
  • Collette was always in the streets, shouting, denouncing cruelty to animals, racism, slavery, French nuclear testing in the Pacific.†   (source)
  • Others stayed with us a day or a week, but these seven remained, the nucleus of our happy household.†   (source)
  • On October 6, 1986, a Russian Yankee-class nuclear submarine (K-219) sailing off the coast of Bermuda experienced a failed seal on the missile hatch.†   (source)
  • Everyone talks about there being no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, but they seem to be referring to completed nuclear bombs, not the many deadly chemical weapons or precursors that Saddam had stockpiled.†   (source)
  • If I loosen a skin cell from my finger, the nucleus will contain not only the characteristics of my skin: the same cell will also reveal what kind of eyes I have, the color of my hair, the number and type of my fingers, and so on.†   (source)
  • The nucleus is the brains of the operation; inside every nucleus within each cell in your body, there's an identical copy of your entire genome.†   (source)
  • What do you want, a nuclear—" She broke off with a scream as Lily, braving the light, launched herself at Jace, her teeth bared in a searing snarl.†   (source)
  • The Briarcrest Christian School was about to go nuclear.†   (source)
  • Fifty-eight nuclear-powered submarines and twenty-eight major surface combatants all headed our way.†   (source)
  • The Asherah virus, which may be related to herpes, or they may be one and the same, passes through the cell walls and goes to the nucleus and messes with the cell's DNA in the same way that steroids do.†   (source)
  • Barbecues, shopping carts; maybe tomorrow a parking meter or a nuclear warhead.†   (source)
  • I guess by now the issue in the minds of the American public was, Did he have a nuclear weapon, an atom bomb?†   (source)
  • When he investigated, he found that the singles and nuclear families that had inhabited the town's apartment complexes were being displaced by families of refugees living eight or ten to an apartment—and producing a proportionate amount of garbage, which the town had to haul away.†   (source)
  • He got into a special program, and the Navy trained him to be a nuclear submarine operator.†   (source)
  • The group had an atomic structure: a nucleus of nuts surrounded by darting, nervous nurse-electrons charged with our protection.†   (source)
  • Democracy was going to be introduced, the threat of nuclear war was over, and the Bolsheviks would turn into regular little capitalists overnight.†   (source)
  • Q: How is it possible that humans invented something as amazing as an airplane and something as awful as a nuclear bomb?†   (source)
  • If you were honest and your heart was pure, then this blessing may cause less evil than I fear, though it will still be the nucleus of more pain than either of us could wish.†   (source)
  • There were a lot of ornery vatos around, but they just hung around and smoked and ditched class and acted like the school was some kind of contaminated nuclear zone.†   (source)
  • Woodall had recruited three of South Africa's strongest climbers Andy de Klerk, Andy Hackland, and to form the nucleus of his team: Although Neby's expedition was bi Bedasa's olo" endeavor he had employed eighteen Sherpas to carry his loads, fix ropes for him, establish his camps, and guide him up the mountain.†   (source)
  • —though confirmation has been slow to come out of the city, we believe these explosions were not nuclear or biological in nature, and were concentrated around midtown, where President Gray was rumored to be in hiding after the most recent attempt on his life.†   (source)
  • And for sure if Bryn caught me with an article about Mia there'd be explosions of the nuclear variety.†   (source)
  • There's a little thing you might have had occasion to hear of, called the Nuclear Accident Readiness Foundation.†   (source)
  • Otherwise they'll overrun the universe like cockroaches, protected from nuclear attack by an armor of Tiffany jewelry and shiny lip-gloss shells.†   (source)
  • You wouldn't dream there's enough nuclear weapons buried out there to blow up the entire planet would you?†   (source)
  • Red and raw like my brain, unable to shut down, thoughts crashing like electrons orbiting a nucleus of dueling emotions.†   (source)
  • The loosely organized group was formed in 1971 to oppose French nuclear weapon tests in the South Seas.†   (source)
  • In the close quarters of an American nuclear family, their mother's prodigious energy was becoming a real drain on their self-determination.†   (source)
  • The egg yolk would be the cell's nucleus.†   (source)
  • We assumed that the foreign policy issues that properly furrowed the brow were lofty and complex, like nuclear nonproliferation.†   (source)
  • I fidgeted while we watched the shots of downtown and the expressways, eerily empty and looking post-meteor-hit-or-nuclear-war-like.†   (source)
  • Not like plastic picnic ware, which would probably be around to greet the roaches after the final nuclear holocaust.†   (source)
  • For one thing, they have their own dorm, Harambee House, which offers a nucleus for activities.†   (source)
  • The advocates of nuclear disarmament seem to believe that, if they could achieve their aim.†   (source)
  • With effervescent agility the chaplain ran through the whole gamut of orthodox immoralities, while Nately sat up in bed with flushed elation, astounded by the mad gang of companions of which he found himself the nucleus.†   (source)
  • Even though I don't think there is going to be a nuclear bomb just in case I read it very carefully.†   (source)
  • I was blind, nuclear mad.†   (source)
  • The Russian dictator sees that the American president is willing to conduct a nuclear war if pushed to the limit.†   (source)
  • This was a knee-melting, gut-twisting, vein-tingling, nuclear meltdown compared to other kisses I'd had.†   (source)
  • And if I came back as a roach in the next life, well, at least I'd survive the nuclear holocaust.†   (source)
  • The primary nuclear powers were the greatest prize-each had been softened and judged in ways they could not begin to imagine.†   (source)
  • The casualty figures from this and other firebombing raids would be higher than those caused by the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki five months later.†   (source)
  • A year earlier, Pakistan had stunned the world by conducting five successful tests of nuclear weapons.†   (source)
  • Would you prefer a nuclear holocaust, laboratory plague, or technological singularity to my ascendancy?†   (source)
  • As nuclear and biological war threatened to destroy Earth, space had been the only option for those lucky enough to survive the first stages of the Cataclysm.†   (source)
  • "Nuclear bomb, nice thought," you said.†   (source)
  • It is the nucleus of it all.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, the chance to observe a nucleus belonging to Carlos-or Carlos himself-was an opportunity that might never come again.†   (source)
  • But the plot, he thought, wasn't quite exciting enough, so he'd tried to jazz it up using every idea he'd ever had, including a nuclear warhead hidden in San Francisco, a crooked cop who was witness to the JFK assassination, an Irish terrorist, the Mafia, a boy and his dog, an evil venture capitalist, and a time-traveling scientist who'd escaped the persecution of the Holy Roman Empire.†   (source)
  • It was in our view essential to build up a nucleus of trained men who would be able to provide the leadership which would be required if guerrilla warfare started.†   (source)
  • It was like the Milago skipped over gunpowder and jumped right into the nuclear age...and Armageddon.†   (source)
  • The Cold War was on and today's edition of TASS, the Soviet Union's sanctioned newspaper, announced, "Successful tests of an intercontinental ballistic rocket and explosions of nuclear and thermonuclear weapons have been carried out in conformity with the plan of scientific research work in the USSR."†   (source)
  • And is it true as charged that our missiles were of the nuclear sort outlawed by all civilized nations?†   (source)
  • The yanquis, rumors go, have ringed the island with nuclear poison, hoping to starve the people and incite a counterrevolution.†   (source)
  • I was now part of the EC-135 Looking Glass, whose mission had been to serve as an alternative airborne communication command post in the event of a nuclear war.†   (source)
  • Helen Caldicott naming the consequences of an escalating nuclear arms race gave rise to an antinuclear movement.†   (source)
  • I don't care if you're doing nuclear physics, you're not doing it in my yard.†   (source)
  • What could he accomplish if provided with photographs and the geographical coordinates of not merely a missile-tracking facility but a complex of nuclear-missile launch silos?†   (source)
  • I have a feeling a nuclear bomb couldn't kill his reputation at this point, much less a week without my attention, but I appreciate him giving me the credit.†   (source)
  • And if it went nuclear, in about fifty-five seconds there would be nothing left of them except vapor.†   (source)
  • He is a physicist down at the nuclear plant.†   (source)
  • Or simply consider this story: locked inside the nucleus of each little invisible atom is a force so vast it can destroy an entire city!†   (source)
  • It turns into a fireball that is only different from a nuclear weapon in that it doesn't release radiation.†   (source)
  • A nuclear explosion?†   (source)
  • France armed Israel in its infancy, and without French help Israel would have never developed the nuclear deterrent that allowed it to survive in the hostile Middle East.†   (source)
  • It was not that I lacked the desire, the necessary heat: There was something almost nuclear about the lust.†   (source)
  • After all, if he commands a nuclear-powered submarine he ought to be able to learn to shovel silage.†   (source)
  • San Narciso lay further south, near L. A. Like many named places in California it was less an identifiable city than a grouping of concepts—census tracts, special purpose bond-issue districts, shopping nuclei, all overlaid with access roads to its own freeway.†   (source)
  • Every ten miles along the traveled routes a general store and blacksmith shop happened, and these became the nuclei of little towns, Bradley, King City, Greenfield.†   (source)
  • Beginning 10 years ago, the Soviets challenged the Western alliance with a grave new threat, hundreds of new and more deadly SS-20 nuclear missiles, capable of striking every capital in Europe.†   (source)
  • The new agenda, that which is developed by you and by us, must place a high priority on the need to stop the spread of nuclear weapons and to work for the mutual reduction in strategic arms and control of other weapons.†   (source)
  • They want to know what might influence its thinking, how it might be likely to behave, if it has indeed come back ...I've been doing a lot of homework, and I gathered there is a likelihood that its nuclear personality was a composite of the minds of its four operators.†   (source)
  • It was a Polish structure: the barracks and buildings of Auschwitz made up the homely nucleus of a former cavalry installation when it was appropriated by the Germans.†   (source)
  • He left suddenly by the steamer one day; and it was discovered afterwards that the bulk of the collection in the gun room had been crated and shipped back with his belongings to the United States, no doubt to be the nucleus of the gallery of primitive art he often spoke of starting.†   (source)
  • All we have discovered is that it starts with a single individual— always a child-and then spreads explosively, like the formation of crystals round the first nucleus in a saturated solution.†   (source)
  • Randy guessed that these prisoners were being transported, by truck, to their work area, when the nuclear attack came.†   (source)
  • At the time of the Cuban missile crisis last year, we discussed the possibility of war, a nuclear exchange, and talked about being killed—the latter at that time seemed so unimportant, almost frivolous.†   (source)
  • Packed in the changing interstices were broken images, half-symbols, partial references...The ionized nuclei of thought.†   (source)
  • There it sat, perfect as a fresh-laid egg on the dead sea bottom, the only nucleus of light and warmth in hundreds of miles of lonely wasteland.†   (source)
  • In accordance with this rule it may safely be assumed that the forefathers of Boston had built the first prison-house somewhere in the Vicinity of Cornhill, almost as seasonably as they marked out the first burial-ground, on Isaac Johnson's lot, and round about his grave, which subsequently became the nucleus of all the congregated sepulchres in the old churchyard of King's Chapel.   (source)
    nucleus = the center (or most important part)
  • See how it has a big nucleus that looks like it's almost pinched in half in the middle?†   (source)
  • And then it does something to the nucleus of the cell.†   (source)
  • Will all the galaxies be drawn together in a tight nucleus again?†   (source)
  • For example, suppose a nucleus has two protons.†   (source)
  • There's forty-six of those pieces of DNA in every human nucleus.†   (source)
  • Snow Crash penetrates the walls of brain cells and goes to the nucleus where the DNA is stored.†   (source)
  • Inside each nucleus, if we could zoom in closer, you'd see a piece of DNA that looked like this.†   (source)
  • They can go deep inside the cell, into the nucleus, and actually change the way the cell functions.†   (source)
  • The diagram of the atom has a nucleus, with electrons circling it.†   (source)
  • They were tiny bags, each containing a nucleus, which was a darker blob near the center.†   (source)
  • Cordelia sticks her tongue in the side of her mouth and frowns at the nucleus.†   (source)
  • The nucleus looks like a raspberry, the electrons and their rings look like the planet Saturn.†   (source)
  • Suppose an atom is the size of a theater; the nucleus is like a walnut hovering in the center of the theater.†   (source)
  • When these two protons are taken out of the nucleus, no matter how far apart they are, this pattern will remain in effect.†   (source)
  • The nucleus around which it formed.†   (source)
  • All the while, little cytoplasmic factories work 24/7, cranking out sugars, fats, proteins, and energy to keep the whole thing running and feed the nucleus.†   (source)
  • Under the microscope, a cell looks a lot like a fried egg: It has a white (the cytoplasm) that's full of water and proteins to keep it fed, and a yolk (the nucleus) that holds all the genetic information that makes you you.†   (source)
  • They walked along the moonlit beach, alternately touching and not touching, the embarrassment of intimacy intermittently intruding as if a world that had separated them had not let them escape its terrible orbit, constantly pulling them into its fiery nucleus.†   (source)
  • Willis X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY ANALYSIS SHOWED that the Andromeda organism was not composed of component parts, as a normal cell was composed of nucleus, mitochondria, and ribosomes.†   (source)
  • Using microsurgical techniques, it was possible to remove the nucleus from a cell, or part of the cytoplasm, as neatly and cleanly as a surgeon performed an amputation.†   (source)
  • He claimed that, while they were essentially similar to earthly bacteria in structure, being based upon proteins, carbohydrates, and lipids, they had no cell nucleus and therefore their manner of propagation was a mystery.†   (source)
  • It was in our view essential to build up a nucleus of trained men who would be able to provide the leadership which would be required if guerrilla warfare started.†   (source)
  • After a full discussion, however, it was decided to go ahead with the plans for military training because of the fact that it would take many years to build up a sufficient nucleus of trained soldiers to start a guerrilla campaign, and whatever happened, the training would be of value.†   (source)
  • It was also necessary to build up a nucleus of men trained in civil administration and other professions, so that Africans would be equipped to participate in the government of this country as soon as they were allowed to do so.†   (source)
  • The atoms themselves are composed of nuclei and revolving protons and electrons.†   (source)
  • Six years ago, in the distant Trisolaran stellar system, Trisolaris accelerated two hydrogen nuclei to near the speed of light and shot them toward the solar system.†   (source)
  • Scientists cut HeLa cells in half to show that cells could live on after their nuclei had been removed, and used them to develop methods for injecting substances into cells without destroying them.†   (source)
  • Our red blood cells have nuclei.†   (source)
  • In microscopic terms this means only a large object, with large edges and gentle curves: cells, and nuclei.†   (source)
  • Smirnov answered, "he was on a nuclear-powered submarine."†   (source)
  • It was the nuclear-powered ion engine that took me to Mars †   (source)
  • Fifty-eight nuclear subs, and thirty or so surface ships.†   (source)
  • Butler and his four most senior petty officers were already tending to the nuclear tea kettle aft.†   (source)
  • Gentlemen, we have to know this, was he on a nuclear sub?†   (source)
  • Since becoming an officer on nuclear submarines he had learned a much more diverting game.†   (source)
  • Didn't they know he had come off a nuclear-powered sub?†   (source)
  • Anyway, I hardly think we need to attach legal folderol to a situation involving nuclear weapons.†   (source)
  • It can only be nuclear submarines, probably two, perhaps three.†   (source)
  • The guy had to come off a nuclear submarine, didn't he?†   (source)
  • To the unschooled observer, the photographs showed the standard nuclear missile submarine.†   (source)
  • The Americans would gladly trade a pair of fighters for a nuclear powered cruiser.†   (source)
  • For political reasons their nuclear warhead security procedures are even more elaborate than ours.†   (source)
  • Coleman, a weapons expert, had commanded a pair of nuclear subs.†   (source)
  • He had been on nuclear submarines for ten years.†   (source)
  • A nuclear-powered submarine with twenty-six rockets and a crew of over a hundred is something else.†   (source)
  • We've lost a pair of nuclear boats, I believe.†   (source)
  • They will say we were rehearsing a surprise nuclear attack—perhaps even executing one!†   (source)
  • He'd never understood that prejudice in the nuclear navy.†   (source)
  • On a nuclear submarine you are absolutely cut off from the outside world.†   (source)
  • One of our nuclear submarines is missing and presumed lost.†   (source)
  • You get plutonium-239 mostly from radiating uranium in a nuclear breeder reactor.†   (source)
  • It protested against nuclear power and the Falklands War.†   (source)
  • But if they closed the plant surely they would have taken the nuclear material with them?†   (source)
  • You could no more imagine a season of Ebola flu than you could imagine a nuclear war.†   (source)
  • Puller said, "So you were building nuclear fuel for warheads.†   (source)
  • Since when have you seen a nuclear bomb up close and personal?†   (source)
  • What's hard to get is the nuclear fuel for the process.†   (source)
  • People who had helped avoid nuclear holocaust on home soil could pretty much do what they wanted.†   (source)
  • You can triple your explosive yield without a gram more of nuclear fuel if your design is good.†   (source)
  • I've never been around a nuclear weapon before.†   (source)
  • With a nuclear weapon even a millisecond difference in the timing of the explosions is sufficient.†   (source)
  • Who has a nuclear breeder reactor in their backyard?†   (source)
  • Like I said, to try and build a super nuclear fuel for weapons.†   (source)
  • His brother was sitting next to a nuclear bomb, after all.†   (source)
  • Basically trying to make a super nuclear fuel that we could spike our warheads with.†   (source)
  • That means you just have a dirty bomb with nothing nuclear in the detonation.†   (source)
  • My plan works, but it doesn't work that well, and we still go nuclear.†   (source)
  • To get it to be the fuel for a nuclear weapon?†   (source)
  • And you need highly enriched uranium, U-235 or HEU, to make a nuclear bomb.†   (source)
  • The man had been innocent of any complicity in attempting to create a nuclear holocaust.†   (source)
  • The problem is that we're trying to use the same technology—the internet—for social networking and to run nuclear power plants.†   (source)
  • "It's a classic case," said Suren Ratwatte, a veteran pilot who has been involved for years in "human factors" research, which is the analysis of how human beings interact with complex systems like nuclear power plants and airplanes.†   (source)
  • The real problem was that, to contain the terrifying danger of nuclear weapons, the politicians and military had built statecraft, and rules of engagement, based on deterrence against known adversaries.†   (source)
  • After all, if our surveillance systems detect the launch of nuclear-armed missiles in any direction, things could get very tense, very quickly.†   (source)
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