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nuclear

CEFR B1

(weapons) deriving destructive energy from the release of atomic energy

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Six example sentences with nuclear, each labelled with its topic.

  • The 1963 treaty banned nuclear testing in the atmosphere after fallout from earlier trials drifted across three continents.

    History

  • Delegates argued for six days over whether inspectors could enter sites where a nuclear stockpile was suspected.

    Politics

  • The 1964 satire follows a bomber crew ordered to deliver a nuclear payload that nobody on earth can recall.

    Movies

  • Maintaining a nuclear arsenal costs the treasury more each year than the entire budget for the national parks.

    Economics

  • Philosophers who study deterrence ask whether threatening nuclear retaliation can be moral when carrying it out never could be.

    Philosophy

  • The 1957 novel imagines the world after a nuclear exchange, and its quiet Australian setting made the ending harder to shake.

    Literature

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