proliferation
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Appeared in the December 5, 2025, print edition as 'Bad Ukraine Deal Could Spur Nuclear Proliferation'.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025
Per its international agreements, the United States has notified Russia and the more than 140 nations that are members of the Hague Code of Conduct Against Ballistic Missile Proliferation of the planned launch.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2025
He listed only three such bodies: NATO, the Proliferation Security Initiative and the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, the bank messaging service known as Swift.
From New York Times • Dec. 4, 2018
It could also undermine the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty on which the Iran deal was built, says Angela Kane, until recently the UN's top disarmament official: "We need to have this as a gold standard."
From BBC • Jan. 16, 2018
Proliferation of tubers is sometimes seen in Potatoes still attached to the parent plant in wet weather following a drought.
From Disease in Plants by Ward, H. Marshall
Vocabulary lists containing proliferation
The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty
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Vocabulary from the Vice-Presidential Debate, October 4, 2016
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