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: The terrorists refurbish the weapon into a thermonuclear device and detonate it during the Super Bowl in Denver, Colorado.

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Published just before the collapse of the Soviet Union, the novel explores the fragile peace of the post-Cold War era. : The terrorists refurbish the weapon into a

: A lost Israeli nuclear weapon from the 1973 Yom Kippur War is recovered by a disparate group of terrorists (including Arab nationalists and East German Marxists). the dangers of political ineptitude

: It examines the limits of intelligence, the dangers of political ineptitude, and the technical verisimilitude of nuclear weaponry—including a famous, detailed description of a nuclear "fizzle". The Film Adaptation (2002)