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Nuclear

adjective

(weapons) deriving destructive energy from the release of atomic energy. Synonym: atomic. "Nuclear weapons" , "Atomic bombs"

Of or relating to or constituting the nucleus of an atom. "Nuclear fission" , "Nuclear forces"

Of or relating to or constituting the nucleus of a cell. "Nuclear division"

Constituting or like a nucleus. "The nuclear core of the congregation"

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"Nuclear" Quotes from Famous Books

... introduction in an effort to make our word pictures of mankind and its doings correspond with the facts of social history. With the nuclear sword of Damocles hanging over our heads, it is high time for us to exchange the clouds of fancy and the flowers of rhetoric for the solid ground of historical reality. The word "civilization" must generalize what has been and ...

— Civilization and Beyond - Learning From History • Scott Nearing

... industries sent out great plastisteel arteries to bring the lifeblood of the land to the vast sponges of the factories and showers in home and food-processing plants and landrounits. Water for the machine-precise rows of soy bean plants and for babies' formulas and water for great nuclear power plants and water for a tiny, sixty-fifth ...

— The Thirst Quenchers • Rick Raphael

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