"Nuclear annihilation" refers to the complete and total destruction caused by the use of nuclear weapons. It means that everything in a certain area, like a city or even a whole country, would be eradicated or wiped out due to the immense power and devastating effects of nuclear explosions.
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Claiborne says we live in a nation where gun violence kills 10,000 people every year, dozens are executed under the death penalty, and the threat
of nuclear annihilation looms.
Ten years later Kissinger convinced Chinese leaders to join a worldwide effort to avoid the threat of
mutual nuclear annihilation by ending the «space race» and uniting nations against a new common enemy — «anthropologic global climate change.»
On this basis we must oppose all social systems that create wealth and privilege for some by impoverishing, degrading or eliminating other people, whether they be the systems of domination that repress or assault women, or the systems that plan
nuclear annihilation in a futile search for security based on competitive world power.
Use spies and arms deals to undermine your opponents, or turn to the United Nations to rally the world behind you as the specter of global
nuclear annihilation looms over everyone.
Although the Bulletin was originally formed out of concern for
global nuclear annihilation, the group has since broadened its purview to include the world's vulnerability to climate change.
Livernoche points out that early designs for the landmark 1980 arcade game «Missile Command» had San Francisco clearly marked as one of the cities targeted
for nuclear annihilation.
We have the threat of
nuclear annihilation against a backdrop of chemicals unleashed in our air, in our water, and in our bodies as a result.
(And today, on the brink of
potential nuclear annihilation, such cynicism may even seem to be the most realistic attitude to take toward our social and political existence).
Ginger's parents (Hendricks and Nivola) are liberal - minded and about to separate yet again, so she takes a militant approach to
stopping nuclear annihilation.
Aseries of four beautiful, small drawings from 1963 remind me of a Cold War architect's experimental renderings for multi-family housing on Mars, in the event of Earth's
total nuclear annihilation.
After 1945, the killing mostly stopped in the developed world, replaced by the threat of
instant nuclear annihilation, which remained ever - present for decades and has by no means disappeared.
Oh, and in case you are scared
about nuclear annihilation, Dunne & Raby came up with the Huggable Atomic Mushroom, a quite cute and snugly toy that is meant to provide psychiatric help... Ok, by now you probably have got the tomatoes ready to through my way but hey!
The «fact» of nuclear weapons has been superseded by a more compelling fact: that human beings have a right to live free of the risk of
mutual nuclear annihilation.
To save the world from
possible nuclear annihilation after WWII, nations and their national academies of sciences united under the UN on 24 OCT 1945 and replaced Einstein's and Aston's valid definition of mass (m) as energy (E) with Weizsacker's (1935) and Bethe & Bacher's (1936) flawed definition of «nuclear binding energy.»
There seems a recent mania for recasting the fervid, terrifying world of Red - hunts and
nuclear annihilation in the early days of the 1960s as the breeding ground for unusual white - knuckled heroism and split - second decisions.
Early twentieth - century photography conveys how individuals make a home amidst domestic and international migration, while a variety of aesthetic responses in the aftermath of World War II testify to the horrifying prospect
of nuclear annihilation with strategies ranging from radical abstraction to turbulent figuration.
The nuclear annihilation of humanity is «only one impulsive tantrum away,» the head of the Nobel Peace Prize - winning International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) warned Sunday as she collected this year's award.
Between the endless natural disasters, political paralysis, loneliness epidemic, job stealing (or even world - ending) robots, and regular threats of
nuclear annihilation, it's no wonder the nation's mental health professionals claim anxiety (particularly among young people) is on the rise.
By the mid-1980s it had finally dawned on us that our government could no longer protect us from
nuclear annihilation, that we could no longer survive such a cataclysm.
There we shall also make mention of the terror of possible
nuclear annihilation and seek to position this seemingly desperate situation in terms of the idea of revelation.
Earlier in the history of mankind this danger of extinction was not so evident, but it threatens our generation on every side, particularly in terms of
nuclear annihilation or ecological suicide.
The fear of
nuclear annihilation, under which many live, can be attacked by efforts to rid the world of nuclear weapons.
If this is indeed true, Francis has overlooked the history of a consistently violent government, one of the very few to have brought the world to the brink of
nuclear annihilation, and the only one in Latin America to have sent troops to three continents and to have sponsored warfare and terrorism around the globe, and to have consistently called for the extermination of Israel.
The danger of
nuclear annihilation has been felt during the last quarter of a century as a kind of Fate.
And it is only in the sphere of hope and promise that we may find the «answer» to the most significant threat ever experienced by humans, that of
nuclear annihilation.
Today we might fear a nuclear strike by North Korea, in the late 70s we feared
Nuclear annihilation.
He begins by tracing the convictions that shaped two men's determination to end the threat of
nuclear annihilation.
The world is closer to
nuclear annihilation than at any point since the first hydrogen bombs were tested in the early 1950s, says a group of scientists who monitor global tensions.
Lactobacilli seems to perform better for antibiotic - associated issues, which means that
the nuclear annihilation your gut flora takes when you are on a course of antibiotics should be managed best using any L - strain probiotic.
Presumably figuring that somebody should profit off of the world's newly resurgent interest in
nuclear annihilation, HBO announced today that it's working on a miniseries about the Chernobyl disaster, with Mad Men and The Crown's Jared Harris in a starring role.
Cold War movies traditionally pushed hot buttons and earned Oscar acclaim by tapping into collective anxiety over stakes that couldn't get much higher:
nuclear annihilation.
«I couldn't have admired him more when Stanley Kramer was tackling subjects like Nazis and creationists and
nuclear annihilation.