All 11 Uses
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Black: The Birth of Evil
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- It was an old doctrine: What did it matter if the United States had two hundred thousand nuclear weapons trained on the rest of the world if their enemies had the right biological weapons?†
Chpt Prol.nuclear = relating to the central or most important part of something
- The threat of biological weapons could easily equal the threat of nuclear weapons.†
Chpt Prol.
- The primary nuclear powers were the greatest prize-each had been softened and judged in ways they could not begin to imagine.†
Chpt 13 *
- It hit him in the face, no more than a faint sprinkling of moisture, but it could have been the shock wave of a small nuclear weapon.†
Chpt 20
- Like having the only nuclear arsenal in the world.†
Chpt 23
- A nuclear bomb.†
Chpt 25
- Of course, any use of a nuclear weapon would be a landmark recorded in the histories.†
Chpt 25
- It was called a nuclear bomb.†
Chpt 25
- I'm not suggesting this nuclear bomb," Tanis said.†
Chpt 25
- In reality, biological weapons were still in their infancy, unlike nuclear weapons.†
Chpt 31
- We will learn of its release within seven days, when the community of nations, perhaps through the United Nations, receives notice to hand over sovereignty and all nuclear weapons in exchange for an antivirus.†
Chpt 35
Definitions:
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(1)
(nucleus) the center (or most important part) of somethingsuch as:
- in physics: the center of an atom where protons & neutrons are found
- in biology: the center of a cell where DNA is found
- in sociology: the closest family (mother/father/children in contrast to the extended family)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)