nuclear war

基本解釋

India seems to have shown self-restraint. But if there is a next time, public opinion may force New Delhi to retaliate, which could bring both nations to the brink of nuclear war.
印度看起來保持了克制，但如果再次發(fā)生類似事件，公眾輿論會迫使新德里當(dāng)局采取報復(fù)行動，從而將兩個國家拉到核戰(zhàn)的邊緣。
But President Dwight D. Eisenhower believed that any armed conflict with Moscow would accelerate into a thermonuclear holocaust, and he rejected outright this notion of “l(fā)imited” nuclear war.
但是，德懷特·艾森豪威爾總統(tǒng)認(rèn)為，與莫斯科的任何武裝沖突都會加速核大戰(zhàn)到來，因而明確拒絕了這種“有限”核戰(zhàn)爭觀點。
Supporters of the Star Wars defense system hope that this would not only protect a nation against an actual nuclear attack, but would be enough of a threat to keep a nuclear war from ever happening.
星球大戰(zhàn)防御綣統(tǒng)的支持者們希望它不僅能保護(hù)一個遭受核攻擊的國家，也希望它能成為使核攻擊游不發(fā)生的足夠威脅。

Years of worry that the same rockets that could take people to the moon could also bring nuclear war to Earth.
Today's nuclear threat differs from that of the Cold War, according to U.S.Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, "The threat of nuclear war, nuclear attack that we grew up with in the Cold War has diminished.
North Korea says new U.N.sanctions could bring about war on the Korean peninsula and will not slow its nuclear program.

Lastly, there is the possibility of a nuclear war triggered by something other than a state.
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