"When I was twelve, I helped my Daddy build a bomb shelter in our basement, because some damn fool parked a dozen warheads ninety miles off the coast of Florida. This thing could park a coupla' hundred warheads off Washington or New York and no-one would know anything about it until it was all over."
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Larry Ferguson, in The Hunt for Red October (1990), based on the novel by Tom Clancy.
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