nuclear warfare

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nuclear warfare

Warfare involving the employment of nuclear weapons. See also postattack period; transattack period.
Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.
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President Rodrigo Duterte is supporting Japan's stance against North Korea and has cautioned President Kim Jong-un to stop threatening the world with his nuclear warfare.
I believe nuclear warfare will be a different kettle of fish from the second world war, for example.
The people behind hula fever were the wonderfullynamed Wham-O company of America, who have their own peculiar place in the history of unusual toys, games and nuclear warfare: Frisbees, Superballs, and DIY atom bomb shelters were just a few of the things unleashed by Wham-O on an unworthy world.
Along with the threat of nuclear warfare, the clock takes into consideration the worsening of climate change, including humanity's effect on the environment and its respective effect on human health.
Later he would often recall that terrible tragedy, encouraging people across the globe, to take a stand against nuclear warfare. In 1979, speaking to hundreds of youth in Assisi, he told them about his experience whilst celebrating the Eucharist on August 7th, " I cannot forget the frightful impression I had when I turned towards them at the "The Lord be with you" (Mass was then said with one's back to the congregation) and saw that sight from the altar.
That's because nuclear warfare was one of the first applications of game theory -- mathematical models of how parties interact strategically.
Such calamities and catastrophes may include nuclear warfare, unnatural global warming and genetically engineered viruses.
As states and organizations come to understand better the importance of the Internet to their economic well-being, cost-benefit calculations of the utility of cyber warfare may change, just as learning over time altered the understanding of the costs of nuclear warfare.
Released in 1984, The Terminator tapped into timely concerns about nuclear warfare to explore a bleak future in which machines have rebelled against mankind and rendered our species almost obsolete.
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