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The Deplorable Word, as used in The Magician's Nephew, by author C. S. Lewis, is a magical curse which ends all life in the fictional world of Charn except that of the one who speaks it.
Lewis does not explicitly link the Deplorable Word to nuclear weapons, but he certainly makes allusions to the power of humanity to destroy itself.
Writing in 1955 in the midst of the Cold War, Lewis has the lion Aslan say to the central characters, who are children:
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