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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a nuclear attack
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They would not risk a nuclear attack on the United States.
a nuclear disaster (= an accident involving nuclear power or weapons )
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A conflict could get out of hand and degenerate into nuclear disaster.
a nuclear establishment (= a place where electricity is produced from nuclear fuel )
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Local people are against having a nuclear establishment on their doorstep.
a nuclear war (= involving nuclear weapons )
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The possibility of nuclear war was much on people’s minds in the Fifties.
a nuclear/atomic explosion
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This is the site of the first ever nuclear explosion.
a nuclear/hydrogen bomb
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The North Koreans were developing a nuclear bomb.
bomb/shotgun/nuclear etc blast
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A bomb blast completely destroyed the building.
environmental/nuclear/economic etc catastrophe
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The Black Sea is facing ecological catastrophe as a result of pollution.
military/nuclear etc capability
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America’s nuclear capability
nuclear arms race
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the nuclear arms race
nuclear bomb
nuclear deterrence
nuclear disarmament (= reduction of nuclear weapons )
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Nuclear disarmament had begun to be a popular political issue.
nuclear disarmament
nuclear family
nuclear fission
nuclear fuel
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What do we do with the spent nuclear fuel?
nuclear fusion
nuclear missile
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a nuclear missile
nuclear physics
nuclear power
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The accident raised doubts about the safety of nuclear power.
nuclear radiation
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Nuclear radiation has a devastating effect on living cells.
nuclear reactor
nuclear warfare
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the appalling consequences of nuclear warfare.
nuclear waste
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the problems of nuclear waste disposal
nuclear/atomic energy
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a report on the cost of nuclear energy
nuclear/atomic weapons
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The country is thought to be developing nuclear weapons.
nuclear/chemical etc warhead
radioactive/nuclear waste
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plans for the safe transportation of radioactive waste
rocket/wind/nuclear/jet propulsion
the nuclear age (= since nuclear energy was used for weapons or energy )
the nuclear disarmament movement
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the growth of the nuclear disarmament movement in the 1950s
the nuclear family (= a family consisting of a mother, a father, and their children )
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Not everyone lives in a typical nuclear family.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
accident
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There's been a nuclear accident , savvy?
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On April 26, 1986, a nuclear accident occurred at Chernobyl in the Soviet Union.
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By contrast, the chances of a major nuclear accident resulting in 100 fatal cancers was set at one in a million.
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Likewise, the scare associated with the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island was blown out of proportion.
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As had happened in previous nuclear accidents , the operators misread the situation.
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Life goes on, despite nuclear accidents and the collapse of the Soviet empire.
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The nuclear accident at Chernobyl affected this country even though we are hundreds of miles from the reactor.
age
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Despite their weaknesses, are the laws of war still relevant in the nuclear age ? 5.
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Again, these words have a certain resonance for the nuclear age .
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In the nuclear age the maintenance of this threshold between conflict and war is a basic objective of Soviet policy.
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The Manhattan Project, which ushered in the nuclear age with all its benefits and horrors, obviously fits this criterion.
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Even in the nuclear age , war must be approached as a purposeful political act.
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In the nuclear age , peace-time alliances seem a permanent fact.
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Catherine was bounding pell-mell into the mistakes of the nuclear age .
arsenal
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We saw a case for considering what our nuclear arsenal would be and whether it was completely necessary.
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He was energetic, headstrong, and unorthodox-and he had compelling reasons for reducing the ruinously expensive Soviet nuclear arsenal .
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His firm unleashes its nuclear arsenal of threats and writs.
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That is particularly true on containing nuclear arsenals .
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They must show potential proliferators that they are prepared to secure further reductions in their nuclear arsenals .
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At the same time, its nuclear arsenal puts it in a qualitatively different league from its capitalist competitors.
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Next month the superpowers are expected to agree to cut their long-range nuclear arsenals by a third.
attack
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Consequently, they might remove the base, thereby removing the reason for a nuclear attack .
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The nation could ill afford a logy commander-in-chief in the event of nuclear attack .
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My relatives and friends lived in fear of nuclear attack or bombardment by chemical weapons.
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But like the old joke, they prepare for nuclear attack by gathering the wagons into a circle.
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In any case the vast base was vulnerable to nuclear attack .
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Nor will such a network of battle stations immediately end the threat of nuclear attack .
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He was executive officer aboard the Honolulu, a nuclear attack submarine.
bomb
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Physics may tell us how to build a nuclear bomb but not whether it should be built.
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The plants generated fissionable materials for nuclear bombs during the Cold War.
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Before we started, nuclear bombs were sacred objects.
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Mere nuclear bombs would do little to halt life in general, and might, in fact, increase the nonhuman versions.
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However, specialists have no doubt it was built to produce a nuclear bomb .
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Cunningham said that the United States has lost considerable bomb-making skills in the eight years since it stopped making nuclear bombs .
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It asked governments to abolish nuclear bombs , and wished for the strengthening of the United Nations.
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The first would use the same radar and missiles, but would replace the interceptor with a nuclear bomb .
capability
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With Bevin he also believed that Britain would have much less influence in Washington without some nuclear capability of her own.
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Control over these armed forces and the massive nuclear capability is uncertain.
deterrence
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How does that set an example to countries that he wishes to discourage from adopting nuclear deterrence ?
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But it also reserves the right to do so by insisting on full membership for them, which includes nuclear deterrence .
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There is no sign that nuclear deterrence can prevent all conflicts.
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And it would mean the failure of 37 years of nuclear deterrence .
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They are putting almost all their eggs in the basket of deterrence , particularly nuclear deterrence.
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Yet the theory of nuclear deterrence assumes the reverse.
deterrent
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The nuclear deterrent has been very effective in ensuring the security of the west over the past 40 years.
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Only when it comes to the nuclear deterrent or matters of top intelligence-gathering is the short-term commercial approach deliberately shelved.
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To that extent, the nuclear deterrent is very good value for money.
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Britain's credible and effective independent nuclear deterrent is the ultimate guarantee of our security.
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We are the only party unambiguously committed to the preservation and modernisation of our independent nuclear deterrent .
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Both super-powers shared the instinct for self-preservation and negotiated continuously in search of credible systems of nuclear deterrents .
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That applies even to the minority in the Labour party who believe in the nuclear deterrent .
device
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The dangers of creating a miniature nuclear device worried them and also increased their concerns for safety.
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There would have been small nuclear devices loosed upon the Metroplex if Dallas had lost.
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The section for training in portable nuclear devices had been in the deep cellars of the monastery.
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Thus the need for underground testing of nuclear devices , a practice now banned by the treaty.
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As little as 55 pounds of highly enriched uranium or 18 pounds of plutonium could be used to build a nuclear device .
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He weighed up what he needed to tell her about the shapechangers and theft of the nuclear device .
disarmament
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In a way, nuclear disarmament makes matters worse.
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He had seen total nuclear disarmament in the grasp of his President, then seen it slip away.
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Their new Social Democratic Party favoured multilateral disarmament as opposed to unilateral nuclear disarmament.
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Throughout the world they are the banner bearers of the struggles for unilateral nuclear disarmament .
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She spoke frequently in the Debating Society in favour of progressive causes such as abortion, animal rights, state education and nuclear disarmament .
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As late as last year a narrow conference majority wanted to hold the party to unilateral nuclear disarmament .
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In 1955, the year of the Geneva summit conference, there were conciliatory gestures towards nuclear disarmament on both sides.
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In the long term, however, assuring peace and true national security requires some type of mutual and verifiable nuclear disarmament .
disaster
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Two school authorities rejected the section on nuclear disasters .
energy
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Towards this end, agreements were signed on fishing, trade, environmental protection and the peaceful use of nuclear energy .
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Juries may not understand the niceties of nuclear energy , but they can distinguish right and wrong.
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They suggest instead, however, that preference should be given to the development of small nuclear energy complexes.
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S., restrict certain investments in, for example, nuclear energy .
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Worst of all are the perils of nuclear energy whether used for peace or war.
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Doesn't he care that nuclear energy has so far saved the world from burning five hundred million tons of coal?
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This is just the latest example of the threat to free information and even free speech presented by the nuclear energy lobby.
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We're not, he thought, talking about nuclear energy , we're talking about Passion.
explosion
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On Aug. 29 Nazarbayev closed the nuclear testing site at Semipalatinsk where over 500 nuclear explosions had been carried out since 1949.
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Setting off his first nuclear explosion was fun.
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The nearby Trinity Site is where the first nuclear explosion took place.
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Even modest-sized nuclear explosions can have effects detectable over intercontinental distances.
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Strangely, as they soar ever upwards, the balloons take on a mushroom-shape as if there's been a nuclear explosion beneath.
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You could have what they call a radiological weapon that would not have a nuclear explosion .
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Accidental nuclear explosions can not occur; the bombs are designed so they can not be exploded by any chance event.
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We would call this a one-kiloton nuclear explosion .
extract
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To further substantiate these results, we pre-incubated the nuclear extract with a 500 molar excess of wild type or mutated oligonucleotides.
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Jun-Core is phosphorylated by a DNA-dependent kinase in HeLa nuclear extracts .
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Treatment of nuclear extracts with phosphatase results in a comparable increase in the mobility of the 43 kDa polypeptide and ATF1.
facility
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The closure of some of Britain's nuclear facilities means the equipment isn't needed here any more.
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The only effective countermeasure to such activities is international inspection of all the nuclear facilities on Earth.
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It has reiterated demands for the closure of all ex-Soviet nuclear facilities .
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Despite that, the experts said security at nuclear facilities there is weak and there are few controls at national borders.
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The estimates do not include the cost of dismantling nuclear weapons and military nuclear facilities .
family
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The modern nuclear family is a vulnerable and fragile institution.
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They are an extension of his nuclear family but also a discrete entity.
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The individual with this ethic does not engage in any cooperative activity for goals beyond the immediate-interest of the nuclear family .
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Second, the extended family counts for relatively less and the immediate nuclear family for relatively more.
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Within this nuclear family , the hopes and affections of its members were concentrated and the emotional level could rise dangerously high.
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Religion and the nuclear family went hand in hand.
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Clearly, then, housing policy operates at present to reinforce the nuclear family .
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Individual nuclear family units not only provide the maximum number of outlets for commodity production, but also facilitate social control.
fission
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In the mid-1950's nuclear fission had still to be turned into a commercial power source.
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An obvious and technically achievable alternative to fossil fuel combustion is nuclear fission .
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The most important are nuclear fission , wind, wave and tidal energy sources and solar energy by direct conversion and biomass.
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Containing nuclear waste Anti-nuclear campaigners sometimes claim that nuclear fission and its dangerous products are a purely manmade phenomenon.
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Start to phase out nuclear fission power stations, which are prohibitively expensive and potentially hazardous.
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Perhaps this is a reflection of the problems that have plagued nuclear fission .
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Plutonium is a unique and inevitable by-product of nuclear fission .
force
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It committed the forthcoming summit to draw up a mandate for negotiations on short-range nuclear forces .
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The strong nuclear force has a curious property called confinement: it always binds particles together into combinations that have no color.
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In particular they made great progress in their attempts to put electromagnetism and the weak nuclear force together within the same theoretical framework.
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If we had nothing but nuclear forces , this would not be credible.
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It was also important to demonstrate the ability of nuclear forces to ride out a surprise attack.
forces
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It committed the forthcoming summit to draw up a mandate for negotiations on short-range nuclear forces .
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If we had nothing but nuclear forces , this would not be credible.
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The problem of Multilateral versus Multinational nuclear forces became another legacy bequeathed to the Wilson Government when it came to power.
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It was also important to demonstrate the ability of nuclear forces to ride out a surprise attack.
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The talks in Geneva about intermediate-range nuclear forces have recently resumed.
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The national security council heard calls for resources to be redirected from the elite nuclear forces to beef up conventional arms spending.
fuel
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At that stage the inspector did not mention spent nuclear fuel .
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Energy Department officials say nuclear fuel rods have been safely transported for decades.
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Events prove that, in the context of reprocessing spent nuclear fuel , his prediction is being realised.
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Thermal stations burning coal, oil or nuclear fuel work 24 hours a day and their output is less easy to adjust.
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Reprocessing is a necessary first step towards recycling nuclear fuel .
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Reprocessing spent nuclear fuel rods increases the volume of waste and should be undertaken only when necessary for safety reasons.
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Revenues, from reprocessing domestic and imported nuclear fuels , are not expected to exceed £5.2 billion.
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Officials have still to decide how the radioactive dust and nuclear fuel inside should be cleaned up.
fusion
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If the scientists succeed, they will have taken a small step toward improving the efficiency of nuclear fusion devices.
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To an unformed child, Edna Madalyn McGurk Ting was like nuclear fusion .
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But then, so would be nuclear fusion in the state I was in.
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The company blames cuts in Government funding for its work into nuclear fusion for the job losses.
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There could be a sudden breakthrough in nuclear fusion or the cost equation of photo-electric energy.
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The products of nuclear fusion involving deuterons with hydrogen isotopes.
holocaust
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He realized that the world had changed and that each side was capable of destroying the other in a nuclear holocaust .
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Dance music that might survive a nuclear holocaust .
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The novel's apocalyptic ending takes on a universal dimension by being implicitly compared to a nuclear holocaust .
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Nuclear deterrence becomes nuclear holocaust when local wars get out of hand.
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Ironically it looked more like a scene from after the nuclear holocaust instead of a plea to prevent one.
industry
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Adamov sees the importing of waste as a way of relaunching the country s nuclear industry .
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Reviving the moribund nuclear industry would be tough and unpopular, and could take many years to produce more power.
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In the year 1988/89, £256.8 million went to the nuclear industry , and only £16 million on renewables.
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Its nuclear industry is the fourth largest in the world by net capacity.
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This has been particularly useful in the nuclear industry where highly corrosive toxic and radioactive substances cause severe maintenance problems.
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And the nuclear industry couldn't always buy itself into the media.
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This is quite different from the lengthy exposure to much lower levels which people receive from the nuclear industry .
material
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But the authoritarian mechanisms that guarded Soviet nuclear material can no longer be guaranteed.
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Pentagon officials say they have already had some success reducing the risk that nuclear materials will fall into the wrong hands.
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It then swells-for the nuclear material is highly compacted within the sperm-and so becomes a pronucleus.
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Storage of nuclear materials is in jeopardy, a government official warned recently.
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Each of the two divisions of meiosis produces two daughter cells, each of which contains the same amount of nuclear material .
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There have been some real instances of just dumping nuclear material in the oceans.
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Since the amount of nuclear material increases as cells grow and divide, new pyrimidines and purines had to come from somewhere.
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Another worry is that nuclear material from defunct nuclear power plants and dismantled nuclear weapons might end up in the wrong hands.
missile
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In August the Soviet Union announced that it would cease producing rail-mounted strategic nuclear missiles from the beginning of 1991.
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What about all those other enemies about to target nuclear missiles at the United States?
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He kept Moscow happy by fulfilling the state quotas in steel, tanks and nuclear missiles .
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What more can you ask for from a thriller about renegades who steal nuclear missiles ?
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Even short-range nuclear missiles are tactical.
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If they accepted, nuclear missiles would vanish from the earth.
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As for Mrs Thatcher's loudly voiced determination to force through a replacement of the Lance nuclear missile , nobody is listening.
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A visitor to the control room of this nuclear missile submarine might pass it by without a second thought.
physics
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It's a subject whose passion for diagrams and abbreviations and formulae can give nuclear physics a run for its money.
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Tom, this ain't nuclear physics !
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Thermoluminescence dating and environmental radiation monitoring is also pursued within the nuclear physics group.
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Like Nicu she studied nuclear physics , but unlike Valentin, she was never considered suitable for study abroad.
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He says Harwell has now expanded from dealing solely with the field of nuclear physics .
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The other simple analogy is to the chain reaction of nuclear physics .
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Elena fostered Nicu's interest in nuclear physics .
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In 1992/93, after a review of nuclear physics has been completed, it will require £5 million, open or shut.
plant
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No, say conservative politicians and industrialists, who are campaigning to save the nuclear plants .
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And at the Oyster Creek nuclear plant in southern New Jersey, employees were evacuated by officials who feared an earthquake.
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But his environment colleague, Finnin Aerts, wants a moratorium on further nuclear plants .
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The first phase of the plan involves expanding its existing solar station beside the closed Rancho Seco nuclear plant this year.
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The nuclear plants will not be phased out until the alternative energy sources are ready to come on-stream, however.
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What chance did we have at a nuclear plant ?
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Even if they keep within budget, nuclear plants are at least twice as expensive to build as coal stations.
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Instead of energy conservation, they advocate building more dams and nuclear plants .
power
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They spun round undisturbed in front of the nuclear power stations for several hours.
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It could be heated by solar or nuclear power .
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An Atomic Energy Act brought nuclear power under Federal control.
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Mira still gets red-faced when he remembers speaking at a retirement home about nuclear power .
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Let me remember how unforgiving the nuclear power industry is.
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For the same reason an ambitious nuclear power programme has been considerably slowed.
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The arguments in support of cheap nuclear power have always derived from a deceptively simple premise.
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In return they got help with civilian nuclear power .
programme
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The nuclear programme were reducing but the non-nuclear activities were not yet sufficiently robust to replace them.
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It has spent scarce resources on its nuclear programme .
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The nuclear programme was embarked upon against a background of rising oil and energy prices.
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The nuclear programme , because of its sudden appearance and because of the passions it arouses, has encountered its greatest obstacle in people.
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The nuclear programme has also mobilised the technical, human, and industrial capacities of an important sector of the economy.
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We were committed to the continuance of Britain's nuclear programme .
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He called upon the North to close its nuclear reprocessing and enrichment facilities and to submit its nuclear programme to international inspection.
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National Power was allocated 70 percent of the power plant, but was given control of the nuclear programme .
proliferation
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It has to harry the government to take a less relaxed view on international nuclear proliferation .
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Suddenly nuclear proliferation became a high-priority concern in Washington.
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Under nuclear proliferation safeguards, plutonium shipments have to be accompanied by armed vessels.
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We have to face the fact that there is a bigger risk of nuclear proliferation at present than the world has ever known.
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Lugar has devoted most of his ad time and speeches to foreign policy, particularly the threat of nuclear proliferation .
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The legislation stated that the plant posed serious environmental hazards and increased the risk of nuclear proliferation .
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Britain has always been strongly opposed to nuclear proliferation .
reactor
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This was a crude nuclear reactor whose job was simply to produce plutonium for the manufacture of atomic bombs.
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The ship also has facilities to handle nuclear reactor testing and repairs.
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Of course, nuclear reactors have superbly efficient back-up systems for just such eventualities.
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Devices that are designed to produce stable chain reactions are called nuclear reactors .
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There's even a terrifying, bleakly humorous description of the state of Kinshasa's one nuclear reactor .
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S.-built nuclear reactor there, the Department of Energy disclosed Wednesday.
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Plutonium is not found naturally on earth, but it is produced whenever uranium is used in a nuclear reactor .
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The plutonium path Plutonium is a by-product of the controlled fission reaction in a nuclear reactor .
safety
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Talks have been going on for some time on a range of scientific matters including fusion, nuclear safety and the environment.
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The pursuit of a cease-fire dominated a summit of world leaders in Moscow, meeting to discuss nuclear safety and arms proliferation.
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The first formal meeting of top nuclear safety regulators is expected to take place in December.
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Last year, parliament voted to fund research into nuclear safety and waste disposal to the tune of £40 million.
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More than £20 million in research costs has been lost on an abandoned nuclear safety programme.
submarine
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Her earrings and he had to look twice to confirm this-were tiny nuclear submarines , dangling nose up.
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The current Polaris nuclear submarine fleet carries 192 nuclear missiles, aimed at the heart of the former Soviet Union.
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Several time zones away, a nuclear submarine conducted a surprise test-firing of two long-range ballistic missiles.
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An informal probe also showed less serious watch-standing problems on three other nuclear submarines based here.
test
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Think small One such should be to lower the limits on the size and frequency of nuclear tests .
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Pakistanconducted its first nuclear test days afterward.
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Grismore believes high-altitude nuclear tests are the most probable source of the radioactive specks.
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The stress echo and nuclear tests are both approximately 85 to 95 percent accurate.
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Greenpeace began with a protest voyage into a nuclear test zone.
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I hoped she knew to expect that her kitchen would look like a nuclear test site when she returned.
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The Partial Test Ban Treaty was signed a few weeks later, prohibiting nuclear tests in the atmosphere.
transfer
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We produced four live, cloned lambs by nuclear transfer .
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Instead, he had simply made new embryos by nuclear transfer .
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They announced the birth and subsequent good health of three cloned mice, created by nuclear transfer .
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The outcome of nuclear transfer can vary a great deal, depending on which of these courses is followed.
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There seems to be no a priori reason why nuclear transfer should work.
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Conceptually, of course, cloning by embryo splitting is much simpler than cloning by nuclear transfer .
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Others did take up Spemann's challenge, and truly began the age of nuclear transfer that he and Loeb had presaged.
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Thus they achieved nuclear transfer without ever penetrating karyoplast or cytoplast at all.
war
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That's why nuclear war is so frightening - like slapstick.
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The risks of an escalation to nuclear war were small.
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Without such a safeguard, a small group of ill-informed or zealous officers from either side could start a full-scale nuclear war .
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Ronald Reagan was deplored as a firebrand who might bring on a nuclear war .
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And for a while, the world looked terrifyingly on the edge of nuclear war .
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Surface bursts of large nuclear weapons are an essential part of strategic nuclear war .
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If we manage to avoid a nuclear war , there are still other dangers that could destroy us all.
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They governed during the Cold War , with the constant threat of nuclear war.
warhead
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Currently, the Royal Navy is expected to carry 512 nuclear warheads on its Trident fleet.
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And nuclear warheads seem to be the weapon or toy of choice for all those involved.
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The Citadel was where nuclear warheads were made.
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Each tube can hold a Trident missile with up to eight nuclear warheads that can be flung 4, 000 nautical miles.
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The proportions of the mix in the Reagan/Brezhnev head are based on the number of nuclear warheads in each leader's arsenal.
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The Soviet Union, however, once loaded the missile with a 1-megaton nuclear warhead .
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But nuclear power brought nuclear warheads , plastics brought pollution, and the silicon chip promises unemployment for some people.
waste
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Containing nuclear waste Anti-nuclear campaigners sometimes claim that nuclear fission and its dangerous products are a purely manmade phenomenon.
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Discussions of future reactor safety should revolve about two critical issues: nuclear waste disposal and nuclear weapons proliferation.
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Nor can the market get rid of or store nuclear waste .
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Depleted uranium, one of the hardest metals known, is classified as low-level nuclear waste .
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The dispute over nuclear waste is a hangover from the last hours of the Conservative government in 1997.
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That Soviet ships dumped nuclear waste in the area has been suspected for many years.
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Immense sums are being spent on the storage of nuclear waste .
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It was agreed to halt all depositing of industrial waste in international waters by 1995, including sub-seabed disposal of nuclear waste.
weapon
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I understand from people returning from the Falklands Garrison that Britain certainly has various nuclear weapons there.
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Before we took office, I had imagined myself in earnest, heated negotiations with Soviets over nuclear weapons .
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Aiming to eliminate all nuclear weapons by 2000.
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Any effective international regulation of nuclear weapons is bound to entail troublesome incursions challenging prerogatives of national sovereignty.
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Big bombers carrying nuclear weapons were the means through which he reconciled lower military expenditures with a foreign policy of containment.
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We have large quantities of plutonium already separated and in forms ideally suited for nuclear weapons .
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In the ensuing years much larger nuclear weapons were developed.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
nuclear deterrent
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Both super-powers shared the instinct for self-preservation and negotiated continuously in search of credible systems of nuclear deterrents .
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Britain's credible and effective independent nuclear deterrent is the ultimate guarantee of our security.
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The Left called for the scrapping of our nuclear deterrent .
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The submarines play a key role in protecting ships and submarines armed with the Trident nuclear deterrent .
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They have twisted and turned in their attitude to our nuclear deterrent .
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To that extent, the nuclear deterrent is very good value for money.
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We are the only party unambiguously committed to the preservation and modernisation of our independent nuclear deterrent .
nuclear/conventional forces
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Before 1957 was out, world events were sowing the seeds of a conventional forces counter-reformation.
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It committed the forthcoming summit to draw up a mandate for negotiations on short-range nuclear forces .
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It was also important to demonstrate the ability of nuclear forces to ride out a surprise attack.
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Meanwhile, its conventional forces are plenty good enough to banish the nuclear option to the realm of the theoretical.
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Prior to Sandys the orthodox military priesthood had seen nuclear weapons as being in support of conventional forces .
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Urging restraint in the development of conventional forces , the statement said that otherwise these could exacerbate political tensions.
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Yet our conventional forces have not made an equivalent leap into the future.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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nuclear fission
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a nuclear testing area
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the threat of nuclear war
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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According to the report the country possessed four nuclear reactors.
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Any more massive star that exhausts its nuclear fuel will collapse completely under its own gravity.
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Gasoline would have been ideal for a sudden blaze; the sealed nuclear drive was useless in that respect.
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Most of the debate was really about an alleged universality of the nuclear family of married biological parents and their legitimate children.
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The findings of 47 per-cent who preferred nuclear compares with 50 per-cent for fossil fuels.
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The left strongly opposes both nuclear tests and plans to manufacture nuclear weapons.
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These authors argue that, in the absence of a specific treaty prohibition nuclear weapons are not perse illegal.
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This is the first stage of a nuclear reaction which can lead to an explosion.