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The Hunt for Red October
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We will proceed all the way to our socialist brothers in Cuba, and we will be the first ship to make use of a new and supersecret nuclear submarine base that we have been building for two years right under their imperialist noses on the south coast of Cuba.†
Chpt 2.

nuclear = relating to the central or most important part of something
It was not often that a Soviet sailor was allowed to visit another country, and a visit by a nuclear submarine to a foreign country, even an ally, was nearly unprecedented.†
Chpt 2.
When construction began on the first class of Soviet nuclear-powered submarines, Marko found himself in the yards learning how the steel sharks were designed and built.†
Chpt 3.
He became an expert in nuclear engineering, spent two years as a starpom, and then received his first nuclear command.†
Chpt 3.
He became an expert in nuclear engineering, spent two years as a starpom, and then received his first nuclear command.†
Chpt 3.
To the unschooled observer, the photographs showed the standard nuclear missile submarine.†
Chpt 4.
This was one of the nastier nuclear war scenarios in which a sea-based missile was fired within a few hundred miles of its target.†
Chpt 4.
The first Defense Department use of the program was in the Air Force Technical Applications Command (AFTAC), which found it entirely satisfactory for its mission of monitoring nuclear events throughout the world in accordance with arms control treaties.†
Chpt 5.
Jones was struck by the informality of the discussion with his commanding officer, even after three years on nuclear subs.†
Chpt 5.
Since becoming an officer on nuclear submarines he had learned a much more diverting game.†
Chpt 5.
Like all nuclear submarines, the Dallas was trailing a lengthy wire antenna attuned to the extremely low-frequency transmitter in the central United States.†
Chpt 5.
A book, published every six months and distributed to every nuclear submarine, was filled with randomly generated transpositions for each letter of the signal.†
Chpt 5.
Even more disquieting is the fact that nearly every nuclear submarine assigned to the Northern Fleet—their largest—appears to be heading into the North Atlantic.†
Chpt 6.
Fifty-eight nuclear-powered submarines and twenty-eight major surface combatants all headed our way.†
Chpt 6. *
After all, if our surveillance systems detect the launch of nuclear-armed missiles in any direction, things could get very tense, very quickly.†
Chpt 6.
For political reasons their nuclear warhead security procedures are even more elaborate than ours.†
Chpt 6.
It's too soon after their autumn naval exercise, CRIMSON STORM, and they are only using nuclear submarines; no diesel-powered boats seem to be involved.†
Chpt 6.
On a nuclear submarine you are absolutely cut off from the outside world.†
Chpt 6.
We've recalled our carriers from the South Atlantic, and we are redeploying our nuclear submarines to deal with this threat.†
Chpt 6.
A nuclear-powered submarine with twenty-six rockets and a crew of over a hundred is something else.†
Chpt 6.
Anyway, I hardly think we need to attach legal folderol to a situation involving nuclear weapons.†
Chpt 6.
Not even the secrets of nuclear weapons performance were as closely guarded as day-to-day tactical communications.†
Chpt 7.
Though principally designed as antiship weapons, the third of them believed to carry nuclear warheads were sufficient to devastate the cities of the East Coast.†
Chpt 7.
He referred to the nuclear-powered icebreaker that had spent two years tied to the dock, unusable because of a reactor mishap.†
Chpt 7.
One of our nuclear submarines is missing and presumed lost.†
Chpt 8.
You see, in our navy as in yours, duty on a nuclear submarine is a posting of the greatest importance, and consequently those selected for it are among our best educated and trusted men.†
Chpt 8.
We've lost a pair of nuclear boats, I believe.†
Chpt 8.
His marriage up to that point had been a troubled one, not an uncommon problem for nuclear submarine officers.†
Chpt 8.
Coleman, a weapons expert, had commanded a pair of nuclear subs.†
Chpt 8.
Fifty-eight nuclear subs, and thirty or so surface ships.†
Chpt 8.
He'd never understood that prejudice in the nuclear navy.†
Chpt 8.
Fifty-eight attack boats—every nuclear boat in the Northern Fleet—heading this way with a big surface group, and most of their service forces tagging along.†
Chpt 8.
What had not been fully considered was that the metal was also exposed to intense nuclear radiation, and this particular titanium alloy was not completely stable under extended neutron bombardment.†
Chpt 8.
With no reactor coolant to absorb the heat of the uranium rods, the nuclear reaction actually stopped—there was no water to attenuate the neutron flux.†
Chpt 8.
He had been on nuclear submarines for ten years.†
Chpt 9.
Unless the Russians were carrying nuclear warheads, their antiship missiles would not be able to damage his ship gravely—the New Jersey had upwards of a foot of class B armor plate.†
Chpt 9.
He had a degree in oceanography and had commanded or served in all of the navy's deep-submergence vehicles except the nuclear-powered NR-1.†
Chpt 9.
Additionally, each P-3C carried FLIRs, forward-looking infrared scanners, to identify the heat signature of a nuclear sub, and MADs, magnetic anomaly detectors that located the disturbance in the earth's magnetic field caused by a large chunk of ferrous metal like a submarine.†
Chpt 10.
Gentlemen, we have to know this, was he on a nuclear sub?†
Chpt 10.
Smirnov answered, "he was on a nuclear-powered submarine."†
Chpt 10.
The guy had to come off a nuclear submarine, didn't he?†
Chpt 10.
Didn't they know he had come off a nuclear-powered sub?†
Chpt 10.
Nuclear radiation had bombarded the metal vessel and its internal fittings with many billions of neutrons.†
Chpt 10.
While Soviet eyes were locked on the alpha strike hovering at the edge of their SAM range, his flight of four would dash in under radar cover to the fleet flagship, the nuclear-powered battle cruiser Kirov.†
Chpt 11.
The Americans would gladly trade a pair of fighters for a nuclear powered cruiser.†
Chpt 11.
But sailors on a nuclear sub costing the best part of a billion...Jones leaned forward, pressing the headphones tight against his head.†
Chpt 11.
Too bad it was all classified right alongside nuclear stuff..."Mr. Thompson," Jones said quietly, not looking around, "can you ask the skipper if maybe we can swing more easterly and drop down a knot or two?"†
Chpt 11.
The Nimitz was now within air range after a five-thousand-mile dash from the South Atlantic; the carrier and her nuclear-powered escorts, the California, Bainbridge, and Truxton, were now only four hundred miles to the south, with the America battle group half a day behind them.†
Chpt 13.
Forward, some crewmen muttered among themselves that minor was a word suffering from overuse, that nuclear submarines did not run on diesel and ventilate with surface air for the hell of it.†
Chpt 13.
The Pigeon The Pigeon was one of the navy's two modern submarine rescue ships designed to locate and reach a sunken nuclear sub quickly enough to save her crew.†
Chpt 14.

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(1) (nucleus)
the center (or most important part) of something
such 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)

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