The Sum of All Fears: Clancy, Tom: 9780425133545 - Amazon.com
: The nuclear detonation occurs at a football game in Baltimore, Maryland, rather than Denver.
Published just before the collapse of the Soviet Union, the novel explores the fragile peace of the post-Cold War era.
The title itself refers to the "summing" of various geopolitical and personal anxieties—chiefly the threat of mutually assured destruction —that could lead to global catastrophe.
: To avoid political controversy during pre-production, the terrorists were changed from Arab nationalists to a European neo-Nazi faction seeking to provoke a superpower conflict.
: The terrorists refurbish the weapon into a thermonuclear device and detonate it during the Super Bowl in Denver, Colorado.