nuclearizationn.
/ˌnjuːklɪərʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, U.S. /ˈˌn(j)uklɪ(ə)rəˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/, /ˈˌn(j)uklɪ(ə)ˌraɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/ 1. The supply or acquisition of nuclear weapons to or by a nation or its armed forces.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > arming or equipping with weapons > [noun] > equipping with nuclear weapons
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1957 Long Beach (Calif.) Independent 16 Feb. 4/1 Set the pace for eventual nuclearization of the entire United States fleet.
1960 New Left Rev. Nov. 8/1 The NEC is against the nuclearisation of West Germany.
1967 Times 20 Jan. 11/7 The difficulty of predicting the resolution of crises in advance, from the blockade of Berlin to the nuclearization of Cuba.
1996 Mershon Internat. Stud. Rev. 40 260 The nuclearization of North Korea would inevitably lead to the remilitarization of Japan.
2. Sociology. The restructuring of the family unit to its nuclear form (see nuclear adj. 2d).
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1964 Man in India 44 193 (heading) The nuclearization of joint family households in West Bengal.
1974 Econ. Jrnl. 84 117 A major cause of fertility reduction may be the nuclearisation of families which raises the cost of children.
1991 Jrnl. Southern Afr. Stud. 17 414 This helped to cause the growing nuclearisation of Indian families and their enmeshing in new levels of consumerism.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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