The fact that a country possesses and has the ability to deploy nuclear weapons.
these countries may then feel compelled to develop a nuclear capability
Example sentencesExamples
- The artillery now had a nuclear capability.
- Even after both countries revealed their nuclear capabilities to the world, there were exchanges of gunfire and artillery across the disputed border.
- The country's nuclear capabilities remain a cause for concern.
- They cannot be allowed to hold the entire country ransom simply because they have acquired nuclear capability.
- The availability of a nuclear capability has altered the nature of war in the region.
- They had not acquired a nuclear capability, but they were close to developing one.
- They are actively modernizing both their nuclear capabilities and ballistic missiles.
- He asserted on innumerable occasions that their nuclear capability was in the secure hands of the military.
- Both sides possessed increasing nuclear capabilities.
- Their war-time alliance collapsed within three years and each embarked on a programme of rearmament with nuclear capability.