nuclear testing

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1. The testing of nuclear weapons. (See Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.)

nuclear testing

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1. The testing of atomic bombs (see also atomic bomb) by exploding them either above or below ground. (See Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.)

Example Sentences

The photos were a sensation, humiliating the French government and leading it to abandon atmospheric nuclear testing in the region.

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Bonlieu and her office mates were working to support this planned action at Moruroa, where the Rainbow Warrior would lead a convoy of ships to call attention to the lasting damage done by French nuclear testing—still conducted underground and underwater—to the fragile atoll.

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Opération Satanique would, in some respects, succeed: The Rainbow Warrior would never lead a flotilla to protest French nuclear testing.

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By 1992, France had agreed to stop its nuclear testing entirely.

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The 1973 fiasco with the smuggled film had contributed to France’s decision to move its nuclear testing underground.

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