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- Somewhere nuclear warheads were flying through the air.†
Chpt Prol.nuclear = relating to the central or most important part of something
- We've just had a nuclear exchange," Gains said.†
Chpt 1
- Nuclear?†
Chpt 1
- She couldn't imagine how a nuclear detonation in the Middle East would affect the current scenario.†
Chpt 1
- The nuclear crisis!†
Chpt 6
- They were talking about nuclear detonations?†
Chpt 7
- Someone had launched nuclear weapons!†
Chpt 7
- Detonating nuclear weapons over densely populated targets is another.†
Chpt 7
- Two-thirds of the world's combined nuclear arsenal is presently loaded on ships, steaming to our shores.†
Chpt 7 *
- Secretary of Defense Grant Myers was still bleary-eyed over the nuclear exchange between Israel and France.†
Chpt 14
- Our ships are scheduled to hand over most of our nuclear arsenal in three days' time.†
Chpt 14
- Our only hope of getting the antivirus from the New Allegiance to disarm ourselves and open ourselves to nuclear holocaust.†
Chpt 14
- In three days we lose our nuclear arsenal.†
Chpt 19
- The president is planning to start a nuclear war.†
Chpt 20
- Leak the word that a nuclear war might be imminent.†
Chpt 20
- Fortier turned from a wall of maps that showed the exact location of each nuclear power's arsenal, inbound to France.†
Chpt 24
- Killing him now, before they had control of the nuclear arsenals, was too risky.†
Chpt 24
- It's not going to happen because Robert Blair has refused a deal that would exchange our nuclear arsenal for the antivirus.†
Chpt 29
- Full-scale riots were raging throughout the city, the first signs of the Raison virus had visited them early with this rash, the bulk of the world's nuclear arsenal was about to land in the hands of a man likely to use it, and the brave Robert Blair, president of the most powerful country on earth, was huddled in his closet, punching in a number by the green translucent glow of a secure satellite phone.†
Chpt 29
- I'm assuming you won't give them the nuclear weapons.†
Chpt 33
- There was enough nuclear firepower in a five-mile radius of this aircraft carrier to blow up the world fifty times over.†
Chpt 36
- Among those blips floated the sharpest edge of America's military sword-six full carrier groups, hundreds of ships carrying everything from their most sophisticated attack aircraft to nuclear weapons.†
Chpt 36
- Tomorrow the world's eyes will be on the mounting dead, not a few missing nuclear weapons.†
Chpt 36
- THE EXCHANGE took an hour longer than anticipated, but by 1600 hours the nuclear arsenals of the United States, Britain, and Israel were in the hands of the French aboard more than three hundred ships that steamed steadily toward their coast.†
Chpt 36
- The targeting was straight-forward and unmistakable: every major command and control facility in and around the deposits of the Russian, Chinese, Pakistani, and Indian nuclear stores in northern France.†
Chpt 36
- A billion dollars of nuclear weapons was on its way to the bottom.†
Chpt 36
- Here in the silence of the aircraft carrier's observation deck, the destruction of the world's nuclear arsenal looked like something on a video game, but a hundred miles away, the ocean was burning with three hundred slowly sinking blazes.†
Chpt 36
- The word that the United States had traded its nuclear arsenal for the antivirus and then summarily sent that arsenal to the bottom of the ocean had sent a shock wave across the nation.†
Chpt 41
- At this very moment there exists at least one Book, last seen in France, which has more power than any of the nuclear weapons Thomas sank.†
Chpt 44
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)