Definition of nuclear disarmament in US English:
nuclear disarmament
nounˌn(y)o͞oklēər disˈärməməntˌn(j)ukliər dɪsˈɑrməmənt
The process of reducing in number or completely eliminating a country's nuclear weapons.
advocates of unilateral nuclear disarmament
as modifier a resumption of stalled nuclear disarmament talks
Example sentencesExamples
- After Hiroshima, he repeatedly urged nuclear disarmament.
- There were other concerns which gradually put her even more radically at odds with her origins than her advocacy of nuclear disarmament and her opposition to the Vietnam War.
- Uranium mining faced growing opposition in the 1980s from environmentalists and supporters of nuclear disarmament.
- He was much closer to centre stage in the nuclear disarmament campaign, as he had been in the pacifist movement of the First World War.
- The movement for nuclear disarmament itself gains credibility as an important catalyst in the Cold War endgame.
- The following year, their anti-war tradition resurfaced in conference support for unilateral nuclear disarmament.
- He helped coordinate national peace movements during the 1980s for nuclear disarmament.
- The group was formed in 1958 by establishment intellectuals such as Bertrand Russell and J. B. Priestley and urged unilateral British nuclear disarmament.
- There has been little progress made on global nuclear disarmament.
- The 1963 treaty was but a halting first step toward genuine nuclear disarmament.
- Its authoritative exposition of the law did not alter the need for negotiations to bring about further progress on nuclear disarmament.