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US
/nɑnpɹəˌɫɪfɝˈeɪʃən/
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[ UK /nˌɒnpɹəlˌɪfəɹˈeɪʃən/ ]
[ UK /nˌɒnpɹəlˌɪfəɹˈeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
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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 nonproliferation In A Sentence
- Thus, any serious, nonproliferation policy aims to make it as difficult as possible to obtain plutonium.
- Dane Swango, a predoctoral fellow at Stanford University currently working on his Ph.D. dissertation at UCLA, talks about the goals, design, implementation, and limitations of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) to students and staff of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at a luncheon seminar on January 27, 2009. WN.com - Articles related to Russia and US on brink of deal to cut nuclear arms
- It is too early to proclaim that things are spinning into control on the nonproliferation front.
- Common endeavour is also very much in evidence in areas of nonproliferation and disarmament. Canada-U.S. Relations: Our Common Cause Agenda in a Perilous World
- The necessity for nuclear nonproliferation seems clear.
- But Washington initially opposed his renomination this year to a third term, saying he was being too soft on Iran for not declaring it in violation of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
- Dane Swango, a predoctoral fellow at Stanford University currently working on his Ph.D. dissertation at UCLA, talks about the goals, design, implementation, and limitations of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) to students and staff of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at a luncheon seminar on January WN.com - Articles related to Russia and US on brink of deal to cut nuclear arms
- Similar commitments by all five of the nuclear powers were essential to gain support for the 1995 extension of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
- He was referring to the additional protocol to the Nonproliferation Treaty, which allows inspectors to visit any nuclear site at any time, without giving prior notice.
- Perhaps the most important change needed in America's approach to nonproliferation enforcement is to accept the essentiality of organizing coalitions to deal with proliferation.