Below you will find example sentences with "nuclear war". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Nuclear War in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: nuclear
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 11
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 28.4 words

Words in this phrase

nuclear war

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • nuclear can mean: Pertaining to the nucleus of an atom. Frequent word
  • war can mean: Organized, large-scale, armed conflict between countries or between national, ethnic, or other sizeable groups, usually but not always in... Common word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 1 start, 6 middle, 13 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

a catastrophic nuclear war if they 1× a limited nuclear war and later 1× all out nuclear war world war 1× be a nuclear war hawk in 1× case of nuclear war 1× danger of nuclear war through mistake 1× disaster of nuclear war that disarmament 1× event of nuclear war in her 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a strike on 1× all this increases 1× also shortlisted was 1× because i don 1× beneath an unsuspecting 1× china russia and 1×

Common sentence endings:

a nuclear war 3× another nuclear war 1× at the pentagon 1× in his writings 1× in mutual annihilation 1× in south asia 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

weapons 5× strategy 3× warfare 3× year 3× book 3× critics 2× powers 2× fear 2× set 2× cold 2× journalist 2× annie 2×

Related phrases

war crimes nuclear weapons vietnam war nuclear power civil war cold war nuclear energy world war iraq war iran nuclear

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around nuclear:

nuclear energy 18× nuclear arsenal 9× nuclear waste 9× tactical nuclear 9×

Just before it in the phrase index:

nuclear power nuclear energy nuclear bomb nuclear arsenal nsw police nsw health

Just after it in the phrase index:

nuclear waste nuclear weapon nuclear weapons numerous occasions numerous times nurse practitioner

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

nuclear weapons nuclear power nuclear energy nuclear arsenal nuclear waste nuclear weapon

Same ending:

vietnam war civil war cold war world war iraq war korean war

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "nuclear war" has 2 words and usually appears near the end in these examples. The average sentence has 28.4 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as a catastrophic nuclear war if they, a limited nuclear war and later, weapons, strategy and warfare stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with war crimes, nuclear weapons, vietnam war, nuclear energy, nuclear arsenal and nuclear waste, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with nuclear war

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

War has tragically, despite the threat of an enlarged war and nuclear war, become popularized. (15 words)

He has also expressed support for the use of nuclear weapons, which raises the risk of a nuclear war. (19 words)

Nuclear strategy main seeAlso Nuclear warfare strategy is a set of policies that deal with preventing or fighting a nuclear war. (21 words)

Longer example sentences

See On Thermonuclear War pp. 144–155 Kahn, a leading critic of MAD, urged America to plan for a limited nuclear war and later became one of the architects of a doctrine that superficially resembled MAD, but allowed for limited nuclear warfare. (42 words)

Nuclear war and the destruction of all human life seemed a very real threat and the bleak Edge of Darkness is the ultimate conspiracy drama for the age, a dark tale of cold war and nuclear fear in Thatcher’s Britain. (41 words)

Set 200 years after a nuclear apocalypse, the series chronicles Lucy and Maximus' journeys as well as Ghoul (Walton Goggins), a bounty hunter who holds within him a 200-year history of the post-nuclear war. (36 words)

Example sentences (20)

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.

All this increases global concerns that the nuclear powers continue to ignore their treaty and moral obligations to eliminate nuclear weapons, and fear of a catastrophic nuclear war if they’re not eliminated.

Nuclear strategy main seeAlso Nuclear warfare strategy is a set of policies that deal with preventing or fighting a nuclear war.

Beneath an unsuspecting farmhouse lies a vast Cold War nuclear command bunker, built to secretly govern the nation in case of nuclear war.

This year, investigative journalist Annie Jacobsen detailed the awful horror of what could occur in the event of nuclear war in her book ‘Nuclear War: A Scenario’.

Ever since the Soviets acquired nuclear weapons of their own in 1949, strategists have wondered how and where an all-out nuclear war — World War III — would break out.

Nuclear war and the destruction of all human life seemed a very real threat and the bleak Edge of Darkness is the ultimate conspiracy drama for the age, a dark tale of cold war and nuclear fear in Thatcher’s Britain.

In his 1960 book On Thermonuclear War he advocated a more reasoned approach to nuclear warfare and was misunderstood by some of his critics to be a nuclear war hawk in his writings.

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See On Thermonuclear War pp. 144–155 Kahn, a leading critic of MAD, urged America to plan for a limited nuclear war and later became one of the architects of a doctrine that superficially resembled MAD, but allowed for limited nuclear warfare.

Medea, in her book and talks, calls this war a stalemate that is not winnable on the battlefield but could lead to World War III or a nuclear war.

War has tragically, despite the threat of an enlarged war and nuclear war, become popularized.

If disarming North Korea requires a war, it isn’t worth doing, and a war would invite the disaster of nuclear war that disarmament is supposed to prevent.

The next year, Kargil war by Pakistan-backed Kashmiri militants threatened to escalate to a full-scale war citation and increased fears of a nuclear war in South Asia.

He has also expressed support for the use of nuclear weapons, which raises the risk of a nuclear war.

Also shortlisted was American journalist Annie Jacobsen for Nuclear War, exploring what would happen, minute by minute, if nuclear missiles were launched at the Pentagon.

Because I don’t think many would’ve predicted that we could semi-responsibly have nuclear weapons without another nuclear war.

China, Russia, and the United States are all spending huge sums to expand or modernize their nuclear arsenals, adding to the ever-present danger of nuclear war through mistake or miscalculation.

Set 200 years after a nuclear apocalypse, the series chronicles Lucy and Maximus' journeys as well as Ghoul (Walton Goggins), a bounty hunter who holds within him a 200-year history of the post-nuclear war.

Europe is the continent with most nuclear weapons, it is a hotspot, this is where nuclear war planners are mapping these scenarios out.

A strike on Russia’s contraband intermediate-range missile arsenal or on North Korea’s nuclear program could bring about the very scenario that arms control is supposed to prevent: nuclear war.

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