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Nuclear   /nˈukliər/   Listen
Nuclear

adjective
1.
(weapons) deriving destructive energy from the release of atomic energy.  Synonym: atomic.  "Nuclear weapons" , "Atomic bombs"
2.
Of or relating to or constituting the nucleus of an atom.  "Nuclear fission" , "Nuclear forces"
3.
Of or relating to or constituting the nucleus of a cell.  "Nuclear division"
4.
Constituting or like a nucleus.  "The nuclear core of the congregation"



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"Nuclear" Quotes from Famous Books



... Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (OPANAL): note - acronym from Organismo para la Proscripcion de las Armas Nucleares en la America Latina y el ...
— The 2001 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... writing this introduction in an effort to make our word pictures of mankind and its doings correspond with the facts of social history. With the nuclear sword of Damocles hanging over our heads, it is high time for us to exchange the clouds of fancy and the flowers of rhetoric for the solid ground of historical reality. The word "civilization" must generalize what has been and what is, as nearly as the past and present ...
— Civilization and Beyond - Learning From History • Scott Nearing
... blips streaked apart in the viewers and space lit up with the fire and interception. Two ships met head on; at such velocities it was like a nuclear blast. ...
— Tulan • Carroll Mather Capps


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