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Nuclear spindle

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• Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty

  noun 1. an agreement signed by Britain, the Soviet Union, and the U.S. in 1963, committing nations to halt atmospheric tests of nuclear weapons: by the end of 1963, 96 additional nations had signed the treaty.

• Nuclear testing

  The testing of nuclear weapons. (See Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.) The testing of atomic bombs by exploding them either above or below ground. (See Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.)

• Nuclear threshold

  noun 1. the point in war at which a combatant brings nuclear weapons into use noun the point during a conflict or war at which the use of nuclear weapons is chosen

• Nuclear umbrella

  noun the nuclear weapons of one country seen as protection for its allies

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