Meanings
plural nuclear wars
- countableuncountableA war fought using nuclear (fission and/or fusion) weapons.
Vladimir Putin has told Nato countries that they risk provoking a nuclear war if they send troops to fight in Ukraine, in an annual state of the nation speech ramping up his threats against Europe and the US.
2024 February 29, Pjotr Sauer, “Sending troops to Ukraine would risk provoking nuclear war, Putin tells Nato”, in The Guardian, →ISSN1 more example
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 the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States, and more than fifty other nations signed the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons. Under that treaty, nations without nuclear weapons promised not to make them or receive them from others; the treaty assured those nations that they would have access to the full benefits of the peaceful uses of nuclear power. Nations with nuclear weapons pledged to work toward effective arms control and disarmament. This was the most significant step we had yet taken to reduce the possibility of nuclear war. In my remarks following the signing ceremony, I called the treaty "the most important international agreement since the beginning of the nuclear age."
1971, Lyndon Johnson, “Thawing the Cold War”, in The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 462
Translations
Arabic حَرْب نَوَوِيَّة, حَرْب ذَرِّيَّة
- حَرْب نَوَوِيَّة (ḥarb nawawiyya)war fought using nuclear weapons
- حَرْب ذَرِّيَّة (ḥarb ḏarriyya)war fought using nuclear weapons
Bengali পারমাণবিক যুদ্ধ
- পারমাণবিক যুদ্ধ (parmanobik juddho)war fought using nuclear weapons
Bulgarian я́дрена война́, а́томна война́
- я́дрена война́ (jádrena vojná)war fought using nuclear weapons
- а́томна война́ (átomna vojná)war fought using nuclear weapons
Chinese Mandarin 核戰爭 /核战争, 核子戰爭 /核子战争
- 核戰爭 /核战争 (hézhànzhēng)war fought using nuclear weapons
- 核子戰爭 /核子战争 (hézǐ zhànzhēng)war fought using nuclear weapons
- 核戰 /核战 (hézhàn)war fought using nuclear weapons
Czech jaderná válka
- jaderná válkawar fought using nuclear weapons
Danish atomkrig
- atomkrigwar fought using nuclear weapons
Dutch kernoorlog, atoomoorlog
- kernoorlogwar fought using nuclear weapons
- atoomoorlogwar fought using nuclear weapons
Estonian tuumasõda
- tuumasõdawar fought using nuclear weapons
Finnish ydinsota
- ydinsotawar fought using nuclear weapons
French guerre nucléaire, guerre atomique
- guerre nucléairewar fought using nuclear weapons
- guerre atomiquewar fought using nuclear weapons
German Atomkrieg, Nuklearkrieg
- Atomkriegwar fought using nuclear weapons
- Nuklearkriegwar fought using nuclear weapons
- thermonuklearer Kriegwar fought using nuclear weapons
Hebrew מִלְחָמָה גַּרְעִינִית
- מִלְחָמָה גַּרְעִינִיתwar fought using nuclear weapons
Hindi परमाणु युद्ध, नाभिकीय युद्ध
- परमाणु युद्ध (parmāṇu yuddh)war fought using nuclear weapons
- नाभिकीय युद्ध (nābhikīya yuddh)war fought using nuclear weapons
- अणुयुद्ध (aṇuyuddh)war fought using nuclear weapons
Hungarian atomháború
- atomháborúwar fought using nuclear weapons
Icelandic kjarnorkustríð
- kjarnorkustríðwar fought using nuclear weapons
Indonesian perang nuklir
- perang nuklirwar fought using nuclear weapons
Italian guerra nucleare
- guerra nuclearewar fought using nuclear weapons
Japanese 核戦争
- 核戦争 (kakusensō)war fought using nuclear weapons
Korean 핵전쟁
- 핵전쟁 (haekjeonjaeng)war fought using nuclear weapons
Latvian kodolkarš
- kodolkaršwar fought using nuclear weapons
Lithuanian branduolinis karas
- branduolinis karaswar fought using nuclear weapons
Malay perang nuklear
- perang nuklearwar fought using nuclear weapons
Norwegian Bokmål atomkrig
- atomkrigwar fought using nuclear weapons
Polish wojna atomowa, wojna jądrowa
- wojna atomowawar fought using nuclear weapons
- wojna jądrowawar fought using nuclear weapons
- wojna nuklearnawar fought using nuclear weapons
Portuguese guerra nuclear, atómica
- guerra nuclearwar fought using nuclear weapons
- atómicawar fought using nuclear weapons
- atômicawar fought using nuclear weapons
Romanian război nuclear
- război nuclearwar fought using nuclear weapons
Russian я́дерная война́, а́томная война́
- я́дерная война́ (jádernaja vojná)war fought using nuclear weapons
- а́томная война́ (átomnaja vojná)war fought using nuclear weapons
Slovak jadrová vojna
- jadrová vojnawar fought using nuclear weapons
Spanish guerra nuclear
- guerra nuclearwar fought using nuclear weapons
Swedish kärnvapenkrig
- kärnvapenkrigwar fought using nuclear weapons
Tagalog digmaang nuklear
- digmaang nuklearwar fought using nuclear weapons
Thai สงครามนิวเคลียร์
- สงครามนิวเคลียร์ (sǒng-kraam-niu-kliia)war fought using nuclear weapons
Turkish nükleer savaş
- nükleer savaşwar fought using nuclear weapons
Ukrainian я́дерна війна́, а́томна війна́
- я́дерна війна́ (jáderna vijná)war fought using nuclear weapons
- а́томна війна́ (átomna vijná)war fought using nuclear weapons
Urdu جَوہَری جَن٘گ
- جَوہَری جَن٘گ (jauharī jaṅg)war fought using nuclear weapons
Vietnamese chiến tranh hạt nhân
- chiến tranh hạt nhânwar fought using nuclear weapons
Yiddish יאָדער־מלחמה
- יאָדער־מלחמה (yóder-milkhóme)war fought using nuclear weapons
Cite this entry
nuclear war. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nuclear%20war
“nuclear war.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nuclear%20war. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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