Definitions
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- noun The advocacy of
nuclear weapons and nucleartechnology for the maintenance of national security
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Examples
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Crucial to the Hiroshima legacy is what we call nuclearism, the exaggerated dependency on nuclear weapons and frequent embrace of them to the point of nearworship.
'The New War Over Hiroshima': An Exchange Alperovitz, Gar 1995
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When Pope John XXIII talked about "the signs of the times" -- poverty, nuclearism, sexism -- I began to read these new signs with a new conscience and with a new sense of religious life in mind.
Sister Joan Chittister, OSB: How I Came To Understand Sin OSB Sister Joan Chittister 2011
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There is a lot of news about nuclearism these days.
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There is a lot of news about nuclearism these days.
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It's John 23 who actually identified the woman's question as one of the three major signs of the times, along with poverty and nuclearism.
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Is such a position "religious," and therefore a contradiction in authors who condemn the religion of nuclearism?
The Nuclear Difference Lifton, Robert Jay 1991
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When Pope John XXIII talked about "the signs of the times" -- poverty, nuclearism, sexism -- I began to read these new signs with a new conscience and with a new sense of religious life in mind.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com OSB Sister Joan Chittister 2011
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Similarly, debates about nuclearism in non-proliferation contexts and critical race theory in education.
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There is a lot of news about nuclearism these days.
FPIF Latest Content 2010
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There is a lot of news about nuclearism these days.
FPIF Latest Content 2010
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