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nuclear wars

nuclear wars is the plural of nuclear war.

Meaning of nuclear war

Noun

nuclear war (countable and uncountable, plural nuclear wars)

  1. A war fought using nuclear (fission and/or fusion) weapons.
    • IF JULY 1, 1968, figures in the history books of the future, it will be because of what happened that morning in the East Room of the White House. A few minutes after 11:30 A.M., in that gold-draped room, before hundreds of witnesses and in the glare of television floodlights, representatives of...1971, Lyndon Johnson, “Thawing the Cold War”, in The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 462

Questions about nuclear wars

What is nuclear wars the plural of?
Nuclear wars is the plural of nuclear war.

Words near nuclear wars in the dictionary

  1. nuclear triads
  2. nuclear umbrella
  3. nuclear umbrellas
  4. nuclear war
  5. nuclear warfare
  6. nuclear wars
  7. nuclear waste
  8. nuclear wastes
  9. nuclear weapon
  10. nuclear weapons
  11. nuclear winter

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