13 sentences with 'nuclear'

Example sentences and phrases with the word nuclear and other words derived from it.

« US President Truman warned Japan that it faced "swift and total destruction" if it did not surrender; when it did not, he authorised nuclear attacks on Hiroshima (6 August) and Nagasaki (8 August). »
« Both sides (US and USSR) had huge nuclear arsenals in the 1960s that would have guaranteed that a "hot" war would almost certainly see unprecedented destruction, up to and including the real possibility of the extinction of the human species (the US Government invented a memorable phrase for this known as M.A.D.: Mutually Assured Destruction). »
« Nikita Khrushchev claimed that the USSR had also developed missiles that could reach targets on the other side of the world, and therefore the West feared that the Soviets could just as easily detonate a nuclear weapon in the United States as in Europe. »
« The resulting fear and resentment between the two sides led to an even greater emphasis on both the space race and the build-up of nuclear weapons until the 1960s. »
« As described in the last chapter, Cuba was caught at the centre of the most dangerous nuclear confrontation in history, in part because the USSR was willing to directly confront American interests. »
« Days later, Khrushchev threatened nuclear strikes if the French, Israeli and British forces did not withdraw. Cowed, the Israeli, French and British forces withdrew. »
« The main factors for this pessimism in post-war art and philosophy were the devastation of the war itself, the threat of nuclear war between the superpowers and the decline of Europe's power on the world stage. »
« New cultural struggles emerged against the backdrop not of economic uncertainty and conventional war, but of economic prosperity and the threat of nuclear war. »
« There was much to criticise. The Cold War, thanks to nuclear weapons, threatened the human species with annihilation. »
« Estimates from the best-informed US intelligence sources suggest that Germany supplied most of Iraq's nuclear, biological and chemical power. Moreover, the German government was aware of all such transactions. »
« What about Iraq's nuclear energy programme? From 1981 onwards, Germany became the main supplier. »
« When a Freiburg businessman was convicted in 1985 of supplying nuclear technology to Pakistan, the judges sentenced him to only eight months' probation, basing their verdict on the following: the state authorities responsible for exercising such control had facilitated the commission of the crime. »
« We propose to establish within international law the concept that all official decisions must consider their impact on the environment of future generations. By this measure, for example, it would be impossible to ignore the danger of nuclear waste, and equally impossible to ignore the energy crisis, as is currently happening all over the world. »

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