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21) Trust no one
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Pub. Date
[2009]
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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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"... about a terrorist's nuclear threat to blow up the White House. Alexandra James, devoted reporter for the New England Examiner, is attractive, exceptionally smart, an experienced high-end shoe shopper, and used to getting what she wants. When she is assigned to cover the death of a Harvard student doing his year abroad, the whirlwind investigation takes her to Cambridge, London, and then to Washington. The globe-trotting adventures suit her well,...
23) Capitol betrayal
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When a malevolent foreign dictator hacks into the U.S. nuclear defense system, the president comes under fire. With the clock winding down, lawyer Ben Kincaid has precious little time to defend the president. While Kincaid faces the trial of his life, legendary CIA agent Seamus McKay races through the clogged streets of Washington, searching for a hidden command center--guarded by murderous fanatics--that now controls U.S. ballistic missiles.
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Pub. Date
[2010]
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"Against the exotic background of the Straights of Malacca, a daring plot is hatched to finance a nuclear attack against American cities, and Zack and Diane are thrust into the midst of a sizzling race against the clock to foil the conspiracy before disaster strikes"--From publisher description.
25) Next
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Las Vegas showroom magician Cris Johnson has a secret which torments him. He can see a few minutes into the future. Sick of the examinations he underwent as a child and the interest of the government and medical establishment in his power, he lies low in Vegas under an assumed name. There, he performs cheap tricks and lives off small-time gambling "winnings." But when a terrorist group threatens to detonate a nuclear device in Los Angeles, government...
26) Unthinkable
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
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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Deep black volume 4
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Word is out to ex-Marine sniper Charlie Dean and his NSA team: infiltrate the highest stratum of Peruvian political power and derail a renegade general from acing an election. All Dean has to do is find a way inside an impenetrable bank vault protected by armed guards round the clock--it's all in a day's work for the men and women of Deep Black. But things get complicated when Dean and company discover the general's second plot. The military madman's...
29) Unthinkable
Pub. Date
2010
Description
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.
32) Broken Arrow
Pub. Date
1998
Description
Two military pilots engage in a no-holds-barred battle against time and each other in a race to recover two stolen nuclear warheads. When a B-2 Stealth Bomber crashes in the Utah desert during a top-secret test run, the military quickly moves in to retrieve its two "broken arrows." But the situation spins out of control after one of the pilots reveals the crash to part of an incredible nuclear extortion plot.
33) Dirty war
Pub. Date
2005
Description
Feature film about fanatical terrorists who are planning to launch a nuclear attack with a "dirty bomb', a homemade radioactive device, in the heart of London. Every minute counts as authorities search for them in this action-suspense thriller that addresses the question: how prepared are we for the unthinkable?
34) Broken arrow
Description
A bitter Air Force major steals two nuclear warheads to hold for ransom while his former partner and a national park ranger try to stop him.
35) Next
Pub. Date
c2007
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A mediocre Las Vegas magician named Chris Johnson (Cage) can see into the future--but only about two minutes at the most. Just enough to pull off his act and to make some money at the gambling tables, so long as he's discreet. Unfortunately, he hasn't been discreet enough; a government agent (Julianne Moore) has sussed out his precognitive talent and wants to use him to track down terrorists. But all Johnson cares about is a beautiful young woman...
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p2005
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NSA operative Charlie Dean must infiltrate the highest stratum of Peruvian political power and derail a renegade general from acing an election. But things get complicated when Dean and company discover the renegade general's second plot: a nuclear weapon he claims is in the hands of Marxist guerillas.
38) The genius club
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[2008]
Description
Seven geniuses, with IQs over 200 are brought together by a terrorist on Christmas Eve to try and solve the world's problems in one night. It's a cat and mouse battle of intellectual superiority with a mad genius who wants to detonate a nuclear bomb in Washingon D.C.A 3-word password has to be uncovered.
39) Next
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
Las Vegas showroom magician Cris Johnson has a secret which torments him. He can see a few minutes into the future. Sick of the examinations he underwent as a child and the interest of the government and medical establishment in his power, he lies low in Vegas under an assumed name. There, he performs cheap tricks and lives off small-time gambling "winnings." But when a terrorist group threatens to detonate a nuclear device in Los Angeles, government...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Doomsday 2012: Explores the prophecy that the world will end on December 21, 2012, as foretold by many oracles throughout history including the Mayan calendar, the Chinese oracle of the I Ching, and even an Internet-based software program.
Mayan doomsday prophecy: Examines the 2012 doomsday prophecy contained in the calendar created by the legendary astronomers and timekeepers of the Mayan civilization.
Doomsday tech: Looks at threats, both natural...