nuclear threshold

noun

1. the point in war at which a combatant brings nuclear weapons into use

Example Sentences

IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir said following the 12-day war that “Iran is no longer a nuclear threshold state.”

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Such statements have raised alarm among Western diplomats, who fear Iran is edging closer to becoming a nuclear threshold state.

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Today, Iran sits at the nuclear threshold.

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What message will the country choose to send to imperial China, neo-Ottoman Turkey and an Iran racing toward the nuclear threshold?

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“The entire free world allowing Iran to become a nuclear threshold state, whether by omission or by diplomatic commission, is unacceptable.”

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