In chapter 30, Noah is said to have been kept unconscious
for an entire weekend with a “fentanyl patch”.
But
fentanyl
patches are used as an analgesic, not an anæsthetic.
Although the drug was once used as a general anæsthetic,
it was administered intravenously in this application, not via
a transdermal patch.
The nuclear bomb “model” (which turns out to be the
real thing) is supposed to have been purloined from a cruise
missile which went missing during transport, and is said to
weigh “eighty or one hundred pounds”. But the
W-80
and
W-84
cruise missile warheads weighed 290 and 388
pounds respectively. There is no way the weight of the physics package
of these weapons could be reduced to such an extent while
remaining functional.
The
Mark 8
atomic bomb which comes on the scene in chapter
43 makes no sense at all. Where did it come from? Why was a
bomb, of which only 40 were ever produced and removed from
service in 1957, carefully maintained in secret and off the
books for more than fifty years? Any why would the terrorists
want
two bombs, when the second would simply be
vaporised when they set off the first? Perhaps I've missed
something, but it's kind of like you're reading a spy thriller
and in the middle of a gunfight a unicorn wanders through the
middle and everybody stops shooting until it passes, whereupon
they continue the battle as if nothing happened.