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    detonation of nuclear weapons. Five are considered to be nuclear-weapon states (NWS) under the terms of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons...
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    Nuclear warfare, also known as atomic warfare, is a military conflict or prepared political strategy that deploys nuclear weaponry. Nuclear weapons are...
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  • by the major nuclear weapons powers, and the number of worldwide nuclear tests decreased rapidly. India and Pakistan conducted nuclear tests in 1998...
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    administration. As the USSR and other countries became nuclear powers as well, however, the risk of any nuclear exchange became more clear. This, in part, motivated...
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    A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or a combination of fission...
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    most nuclear powers do not have the military budget to sustain a full triad. The only two countries that have successfully maintained a strong nuclear triad...
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    Almost all new nuclear powers have announced their possession of nuclear weapons with a nuclear test. The only acknowledged nuclear power that claims...
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    Budapest Memorandum (category Nuclear proliferation)
    Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). The three memoranda were originally signed by three nuclear powers: Russia, the United States and...
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    have been the first type to be built by new nuclear powers. Large industrial states with well-developed nuclear arsenals have two-stage thermonuclear weapons...
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    Middle power (redirect from Middle powers)
    and Pakistan, and every state participant of the NATO nuclear sharing, would not be middle powers. According to Laura Neak of the International Studies...
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    of the world's nuclear powers in the design of their weapons. Modern fusion weapons essentially consist of two main components: a nuclear fission primary...
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    International Atomic Energy Agency (category International nuclear energy organizations)
    growing international concern toward nuclear weapons, especially amid rising tensions between the foremost nuclear powers, the United States and the Soviet...
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    of serious nuclear disarmament by the nuclear powers. The non-aligned countries reiterated their position emphasizing the need for nuclear disarmament...
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  • Nuclear engineering is the engineering discipline concerned with designing and applying systems that utilize the energy released by nuclear processes...
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    proliferation happened between pre-nuclear Israel and France, stating "the French nuclear test in 1960 made two nuclear powers, not one—such was the depth of...
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    substances while producing nuclear weapons for the United States. The United States is one of the five recognized nuclear powers by the signatories of the...
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    World War III (category Nuclear warfare)
    that such a war would involve all of the great powers, like its predecessors, as well as the use of nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass destruction...
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    three nuclear powers in NATO (France, the United Kingdom and the United States), only the United States is known to have provided weapons for nuclear sharing...
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    by the Defence Council. The United Kingdom is one of five recognised nuclear powers, a permanent member on the United Nations Security Council, a founding...
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    nuclear testing that the declared nuclear powers have imposed since the 1990s. The launch of such an Orion nuclear bomb rocket from the ground or low...
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    governments of the first three nuclear powers to sign of the Limited Test Ban Treaty in 1963, which banned all nuclear tests except for those performed...
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    considered part of the deterrent forces, all of the nuclear powers deployed large numbers of tactical nuclear weapons in the Cold War. These could be delivered...
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  • country crossed the Line of Control and also since both states became nuclear powers. On 10 April 2019, 47 days after the airstrike, some international journalists...
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    believed to be used in virtually all modern nuclear weapons that make up the arsenals of the major nuclear powers.[citation needed] The idea of using the...
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    August 2005 indicated half the population believed new nuclear powers have the right to possess nuclear weapons. 39% believed the Russian stockpile should...
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    Nuclear proliferation is the spread of nuclear weapons, fissionable material, and weapons-applicable nuclear technology and information to nations not...
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    Nuclear disarmament is the act of reducing or eliminating nuclear weapons. Its end state can also be a nuclear-weapons-free world, in which nuclear weapons...
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    Iran nuclear deal framework was a preliminary framework agreement reached in 2015 between the Islamic Republic of Iran and a group of world powers: the...
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    disadvantage. The high cost of nuclear technology means that relatively few of the world's military powers have fielded nuclear submarines. Radiation incidents...
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    nuclear weapons. According to Article 7, states should assist each other to fulfil these purposes, with special responsibility of the nuclear powers....
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