nuclear
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"The first thing I saw was the word 'nuclear' and that made me pretty nervous and scared. So my first thought was that something nuclear was actually flying toward us."
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman said Monday there had been no discussion of nuclear issues.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
"You probably could look at Pickaxe Mountain, and you have to take care of that. We can do that all very quickly," he added, referring to a suspected underground nuclear complex.
From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026
According to results reported by CERN, those experiments revealed both collective flow and jet quenching, providing additional indications that quark-gluon plasma can form in relatively small nuclear collisions.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026
Nikolai Shumkov knew the power of his nuclear torpedo.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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