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Violence
A lot
A nuclear detonation and its immediate aftermath; military violence and action sequences; significant casualties depicted
Language
Some
Moderate adult language; military and political dialogue throughout
Sexual Content
Some
Brief adult sexual content in character relationships; restrained
Substance Use
Some
Moderate drinking across intelligence and military characters
Emotional Intensity
Some
The rational logic of nuclear brinkmanship and how close civilization comes to accidental destruction
What this book is about
Palestinian terrorists and neo-Nazi collaborators construct a nuclear device from a lost Israeli warhead and detonate it at the Super Bowl, triggering a US-Soviet near-nuclear exchange. Tom Clancy's political thriller is among his longest and most complex—a procedural about nuclear terrorism, intelligence failure, and the mechanics of preventing Armageddon.
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Nuclear terrorism and detonation depicted in detail
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