nuclear weapons

• plural

  plural

  The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.

  of nuclear weapon.
  nuclear weapon

  noun

  an explosive device whose destructive potential derives from the release of energy that accompanies the splitting or combining of atomic nuclei.

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nuclear weapons

Alan J. Kuperman, a professor and coordinator of the Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Project, told the Associated Press that reactors are uneconomical and his organization is concerned about the spread of nuclear weapons.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

The other was in 1962 for peace, for his activism against nuclear weapons testing.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026

Gates compared such an effort to global coordination on nuclear weapons, aviation and ozone protections.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

It can be argued, as it was with China, that there is no single action that could have prevented North Korea from obtaining nuclear weapons.

From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026

But with both superpowers now holding nuclear weapons, the stakes had gotten much higher and the battlefield even larger.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau

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