nuclearist

comparative more nuclearist · superlative most nuclearist

1. Supportive of nuclear technology, especially nuclear weapons.

   The nuclearist state would choose to maintain a nuclear force even if all other states declared they would not.

   2018, Bruce Larkin, Nuclear Designs: Great Britain, France and China in the global governance of nuclear arms

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   It is argued that these texts display the limits of nuclearist subjectivity, representing the possibilities and limitations of a space predicated on the loss of atomic self-control.

   1997, Steven John Dorney, Nuclear fables: a study of narratives from the atomic age

   Critically, both nuclearist and anti-nuclearist discourses suggest the identity of the nuclear possessor is irrelevant.

   2021, Paul Beaumont, Performing Nuclear Weapons: How Britain Made Trident Make Sense, page 101