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/nɑnpɹɔˌɫɪfɝˈeɪʃən/
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the prevention of something increasing or spreading (especially the prevention of an increase in the number of countries possessing nuclear weapons)
they protested that the nonproliferation treaty was just a plot to maintain the hegemony of those who already had nuclear weapons
nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation are closely related goals
How To Use non-proliferation In A Sentence
- Adapting the traditional non-proliferation and arms control regimes to the changing world will hardly be an easy process.
- This makes the problem of non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction highly topical.
- … To that end, the United States is now prepared to … declar [e] that the United States will not use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear weapons states that are party to the NPT and in compliance with their nuclear non-proliferation obligations. Think Progress » Conservatives Falsely Claim New Obama Nuke Policy Prevents Nuclear Retaliation Against Chem/Bio Attack
- Military intervention, he argued, can hardly serve as an instrument of enforcing nuclear non-proliferation.
- The position of Ford, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and chief negotiator of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons for the Bush administration, can perhaps best be described as counseling extreme caution in disarming while other states still seek to develop nuclear weapons programs. Russ Wellen: Give Me Liberty or Give Me -- the Extinction of the Human Race?
- International Control of Tritium for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament provides a unique resource on all aspects regarding the military use of tritium.
- Throughout the Cold War, there were a mix of policies that liberals supported: containment, detente, non-proliferation, and arms control.
- ‘This would end nuclear non-proliferation worldwide, and leave us much less secure than we are today,’ the senator said.
- Other issues include non-proliferation of nuclear weapons.
- ‘This would end nuclear non-proliferation worldwide, and leave us much less secure than we are today,’ the senator said.