Nuclear in a sentence

On Wednesday, Russia's Vladimir Putin announced a plan to revise Moscow's nuclear doctrine, to enable Russia to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states if they are supported by nuclear states.

The Kremlin’s updated nuclear doctrine stipulates that any conventional attack on Russia by a non-nuclear armed nation, if backed by a nuclear-armed nation, will be considered a joint aggression, potentially warranting a nuclear response.

Currently, nuclear waste transmutation stands as an alternative solution to nuclear waste disposal, whereby nuclear waste atoms are bombarded by laser-induced elementary particles, making nuclear waste processable into less radioactive materials.

Many technologies and materials associated with the creation of a nuclear power program have a dual-use capability, in that several stages of the nuclear fuel cycle allow diversion of nuclear materials for nuclear weapons.

Nuclear disarmament refers to both the act of reducing or eliminating nuclear weapons and to the end state of a nuclear-free world, in which nuclear weapons are completely eliminated.

Nuclear program 5 MWe experimental reactor at Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center main North Korea's nuclear research program started with Soviet help in the 1960s, on condition that it joined the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

There are critics of the very idea of nuclear strategy for waging nuclear war who have suggested that a nuclear war between two nuclear powers would result in mutual annihilation.

W44 nuclear depth charge The W44 nuclear depth charge entered service in 1961, citation but was never used beyond one or two tests before the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty banning underwater nuclear tests went into effect.

Bill Gates and a raft of other entrepreneurs see an answer in small, modular nuclear reactors, pointing to the small nuclear engines that have safely run America’s nuclear submarines for decades.

Even Japan wants to return to more nuclear power, despite the 2001 earthquake that caused several nuclear reactors to rupture in succession, forcing the initial closure of several nuclear power plants.

Russia’s nuclear threat has made atomic weapons disarmament even more difficult and divided the international community, Kishida said, adding that it’s crucial to get China, Russia and other nuclear states to resume discussing nuclear disarmament.

Simultaneously, the nuclear taboo that shuns the use of nuclear weapons should be extended to reckless behaviour around nuclear sites.

That had led to calls in South Korea for Washington to give Seoul more say in the nuclear deterrent offered by the alliance, with some Korean experts advocating for nuclear-sharing or even the development of South Korea’s own nuclear arsenal.

While the nuclear "deterrent" only is effective to deter other countries with nuclear abilities from attacking with nuclear weapons first.

France’s nuclear woes are caused by… France’s nuclear woes, not “evil anti-nuclear environmentalists”.

It came after Japanese nuclear bombing survivors’ organisation Nihon Hidankyo won the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts in pushing for a nuclear free world and demonstrating that nuclear weapons must not be used.

Nevertheless, Gross said Wednesday the nuclear watchdog does not consider the Parchin site to be a “nuclear facility”, adding there was no information that would “confirm presence of nuclear material” in Parchin.

Russia's existing nuclear doctrine, set out in a decree by Putin in 2020, says it may use nuclear weapons in the event of a nuclear attack by an enemy or a conventional attack that threatens the existence of the state.

Strategic nuclear weapons generally refer to long-range weapons intended to target cities or key infrastructure while nonstrategic (sometimes called “tactical”) nuclear weapons may be shorter range so-called “battlefield” nuclear weapons.

The first step should be negotiating a legally binding treaty on “negative security assurances,” committing to not use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear-weapon states and nuclear-weapon-free zones.