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  • verb Present participle of nuclearize.

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Examples

  • The threat of an erratic and nuclearizing North Korea has kept military coordination between the allies tight over the past decades, but the political relationship has often been under significant strain.

    South Korea in a Funk Michael Auslin 2011

  • The threat of an erratic and nuclearizing North Korea has kept military coordination between the allies tight over the past decades, but the political relationship has often been under significant strain.

    Is South Korea Headed for Trouble? Michael Auslin 2011

  • The world remains a dangerous place in some very real respects--especially with nuclearizing rogue states such as Iran and North Korea--and this requires a significant degree of vigilance.

    The Political Consequences Of The Peace Ralph Benko 2010

  • But these are not normal times, when the United Nations provides Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, their human rights podium to a serial human rights abuser of Bahais and gays, a Holocaust denier and a nuclearizing leader who threatens genocide against a fellow UN member.

    Rabbi Abraham Cooper: Ahmadinejad at Durban 2: Merkel Should Lead Boycott 2009

  • Forget that he wrote bills to improve lives for veterans, de-nuclearizing the ex-Soviet states, and ethics reform and transparency in the Senate.

    What's The Plan To Deal With Palin? 2009

  • The bitter right-winger Jay Nordlinger wrote recently: We've been reading a lot lately along the lines of, "Whoa, the Obama administration faces some extremely serious problems and threats: a nuclearizing Iran, a plotting al-Qaeda, a deranged North Korea, a financial meltdown ..."

    Jesse Larner: The Rule of Law, Once Again 2009

  • Nobody wants a military confrontation with Tehran's nuclearizing Mullahtocracy.

    Rabbi Abraham Cooper: Must it be Business as Usual as the People of Iran Hang in the Balance? 2009

  • But I can tell you, the Secretary and the President wouldn't take these kinds of decisions if they didn't think that these decisions would help us, the United States, ultimately get to the goal of de-nuclearizing the Korean peninsula, again, without compromising on principle.

    CNN Transcript Oct 13, 2008 2008

  • Ahmadinejad goes back to doing — to persecuting, to murdering, to terrorizing, to nuclearizing — and Bollinger cuts out his press clippings and puts them on the fridge.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2007

  • Ahmadinejad goes back to doing — to persecuting, to murdering, to terrorizing, to nuclearizing — and Bollinger cuts out his press clippings and puts them on the fridge.

    The narcissism of the western conscience 2007

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