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Gideon Crew volume 2
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A top nuclear scientist turns homicidal, taking an innocent family hostage at gunpoint. Gideon Crew, a colleague of the scientist at Los Alamos, is called in to talk the man down. But the standoff ends, in an explosion of violence. When the authorities discover the scientist's body is intensely radioactive, and that he had recently embraced Islamic extremism, all hell breaks loose.
2) Nimitz class
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It's as big as the Empire State Building, a massive floating fortress at the throbbing heart of a U.S. Navy Carrier Battle Group. Its supersonic aircraft can level entire cities at a stroke. Its surveillance gear can track every target within thousands of square miles—in the air, on the surface, and under the sea. Its crew of six thousand works night and day to keep this awesome military machine at peak performance. It's a Nimitz-Class nuclear
...3) Trust no one
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
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Over the past two decades, Nick Horrigan has built a quiet, safe life for himself, living as much under the radar as possible. But all of that shatters when, in the middle of the night, a SWAT team bursts into his apartment, grabs him and drags him to a waiting helicopter. A terrorist--someone Nick has never heard of--has seized control of a nuclear reactor, threatening to blow it up. And the only person he'll talk to is Nick, promising to tell Nick...
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America has been brought to its knees by nuclear apocalypse. Gangs, looters and vandals have seized the streets, while decent citizens have united and are praying for a leader who can protect them. Luckily, one of the survivors is mercenary and tireless patriot, Ben Raines, a man sworn to survive.
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Welder Jack Hummel is abducted from his home by paramilitary terrorists who want to break into a nuclear missile site through a titanium block. But even as he burns closer to the launch key, a Delta Force veteran and a think-tank defense wizard are trying to defeat their own super-security systems to stop Armageddon.
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Brooke Chandler, a CIA operative, begins a race against time to find a nuclear weapon that AL Qaeda operative Amer Al Zaroor is moving toward Israel; he must overcome the skepticism of the CIA and the White House, find the bomb, and disable it before it causes the Middle East to go up in flames.
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It is America's worst nightmare: A nuclear bomb destroys a major city, killing thousands. Many more will die. Threats of more attacks spread panic. National security advisor Sean Falcone is tasked with identifying and tracking down the attackers. Powerful forces in the Capitol point the finger at Iran, but Falcone discovers an astonishing secret hidden among the upper echelons of Washington's elite. Will the President - or the American people - believe...
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"The latest in the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Dewey Andreas series. North Korea, increasingly isolated from most of the rest of the world, is led by an absolute dictator and a madman with a major goal--he's determined to launch a nuclear attack on the United States. While they have built, and continue to successfully test nuclear bombs, North Korea has yet to develop a ballistic missile with the range necessary to attack America. But...
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Joe Ledger novel volume 04
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2012.
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When Joe Ledger and Echo Team rescue a group of American college kids held hostage in Iran,the Iranian government then asks them to help find six nuclear bombs planted in the Mideast oil fields. These stolen WMD will lead Joe and Echo Team into hidden vaults of forbidden knowledge, mass-murder, betrayal, and a brotherhood of genetically-engineered killers with a thirst for blood. Accompanied by the beautiful assassin called Violin, Joe follows a series...
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John Corey novels volume 4
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Ex-NYPD detective John Corey, working with the Federal Anti-Terrorist Task Force in 2002, teams up with his wife, FBI agent Kate Mayfield, in an attempt to stop a madman who hopes to provoke an all-out nuclear war by detonating bombs in two U.S. cities.
12) The peacemaker
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1998.
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When a nuclear bomb goes missing in the former Soviet Union, a diplomat and a Special Forces Colonel join forces to avert disaster.
13) Shattered bone
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Shattered Bone: The theft, hijacking, or unauthorized flight of a B-1B bomber loaded with nuclear weapons. Such activity is to be considered a class "A" security violation. The incident aircraft will be destroyed using any and all means available. Its destruction is the highest priority.
–Air Force code manual 13-12
A nightmare scenario becomes terrifying reality when the Ukraine calls in an undercover agent from the old Russian regime who...
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There is a high risk that someone will use, by accident or design, one or more of the 17, 000 nuclear weapons in the world today. Many thought such threats ended with the Cold War or that current policies can prevent or contain nuclear disaster. They are dead wrong -- these weapons, possessed by states large and small, stable and unstable, remain an ongoing nightmare. Joseph Cirincione surveys the best thinking and worst fears of experts specializing...
15) Capitol betrayal
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Kincaid is in a meeting with the president in the Oval Office when Washington suddenly explodes into chaos. Facing an imminent threat to the White House, Kincaid is whisked, along with the president and his advisors, to the underground PEOC—Presidential Emergency Operations Center—built to withstand a nuclear blast, but vulnerable to another kind of attack. Inside the bunker, defense specialists realize that a malevolent foreign dictator has...
16) Unthinkable
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[2010]
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An FBI agent and a Special Operations interrogator must force a terrorist suspect to divulge the locations of three nuclear weapons that are set to detonate somewhere in the United States.
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John Puller novels volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 17
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John Puller is a combat veteran and the best military investigator in the U.S. Army's Criminal Investigation Division. His father was an Army fighting legend, and his brother is serving a life sentence for treason in a federal military prison. Puller has an indomitable spirit and an unstoppable drive to find the truth. Now, Puller is called out on a case in a remote, rural area in West Virginia coal country far from any military outpost. Someone has...
18) Critical mass
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Lawyer Joselyn Cole, having moved to the San Juan Islands of Washington State in search of a quieter life, helps businessman Dean Belden set up a business in the islands only to discover that her client is involved in a very dangerous enterprise.
19) Broken arrow
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[1998, 1996]
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Two military pilots engage in a no-holds-barred battle against time and each other in a race to recover two stolen nuclear warheads.
20) The third magic
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When he was ten years old, Arthur Blessing discovered that he was King Arthur, brought to life in modern times by Merlin's ancient Druid magic. Almost immediately, people started trying to kill him. For eight years Arthur has been on the run, protected by the crusading motorcycle gang of the resurrected Knights of the Round Table. Now eighteen, Arthur has mysterious and wonderful abilities, and Merlin says it is time to claim his destiny. There's...
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