All 15 Uses
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- The British have lived under the shadow of nuclear-armed rockets longer than we.†
Chpt Pref.nuclear = relating to the central or most important part of something
- They know that the only way they can do it is knock off our nuclear capability with one blow—or at least cripple us so badly that they can accept what retaliatory power we have left.†
Chpt 2
- The center of Task Group 6.7, and the reason for its existence, was the U.S.S. Saratoga, a mobile nuclear striking base.†
Chpt 3
- The fire and blast could have cooked off nuclear weapons, if they were in combat configuration.†
Chpt 4
- The third, received by the State Department from London in the highest secret classification, said Downing Street had authorized the RAF to arm intermediate range missiles, including the Thor, with nuclear warheads.†
Chpt 4
- Under the law, the President of the United States "owned" the nuclear bombs and missile warheads.†
Chpt 4
- What had jolted Randy from sleep—he would not learn all the facts for a long, a very long time after—were two nuclear explosions, both in the megaton range, the warheads of missiles lobbed in by submarines.†
Chpt 5
- Randy guessed that these prisoners were being transported, by truck, to their work area, when the nuclear attack came.†
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- Long before this day scientists had been worried about tests of nuclear weapons, even when conducted in uninhabited areas under rigid controls.†
Chpt 6
- Worse, for years he had claimed that Russia's most dangerous threat was the terrible combination of submarines equipped with missiles armed with nuclear warheads.†
Chpt 6
- When nuclear fireballs crisped Orlando and the power plants serving Timucuan County, refrigeration stopped, along with electric cooking.†
Chpt 7
- If they didn't have nuclear capability we wouldn't bother hitting them on The Day, and without nuclear weapons they wouldn't dare stick their noses into a real war.†
Chpt 9
- If they didn't have nuclear capability we wouldn't bother hitting them on The Day, and without nuclear weapons they wouldn't dare stick their noses into a real war.†
Chpt 9
- Thank goodness we still have a big stockpile of nuclear fuel.†
Chpt 13
- All we've got left, really, are nuclear submarines.†
Chpt 13
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)