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The Pacific had great hope that when the former President Mitered decided to halt nuclear testing, we had put behind us the issue of nuclear states testing their weapons in our Pacific region.
Jenny Shipley

Meaning of "nuclear testing" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF NUCLEAR TESTING

nuclear testing  [ˈnjuːklɪə ˈtestɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF NUCLEAR TESTING

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Nuclear testing is a noun.
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WHAT DOES NUCLEAR TESTING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

nuclear testing

Nuclear weapons testing

Nuclear weapons tests are experiments carried out to determine the effectiveness, yield, and explosive capability of nuclear weapons. Throughout the 20th century, most nations that developed nuclear weapons tested them. Testing nuclear weapons can yield information about how the weapons work, as well as how the weapons behave under various conditions and how personnel, structures, and equipment behave when subjected to nuclear explosions. Nuclear testing has often been used as an indicator of scientific and military strength, and many tests have been overtly political in their intention; most nuclear weapons states publicly declared their nuclear status by means of a nuclear test. The first nuclear weapon was detonated as a test by the United States at the Trinity site on July 16, 1945, with a yield approximately equivalent to 20 kilotons of TNT. The first hydrogen bomb, codenamed "Mike", was tested at the Enewetak atoll in the Marshall Islands on November 1, 1952, also by the United States. The largest nuclear weapon ever tested was the "Tsar Bomba" of the Soviet Union at Novaya Zemlya on October 30, 1961, with the largest yield ever seen, an estimated 50–58 megatons.

Definition of nuclear testing in the English dictionary

The definition of nuclear testing in the dictionary is the process of carrying out a test on a nuclear weapon to determine effectiveness, etc.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH NUCLEAR TESTING


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casting
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contrasting
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costing
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disgusting
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everlasting
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existing
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frosting
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harvesting
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interesting
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lasting
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listing
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long-lasting
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posting
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resting
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tasting
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testing
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texting
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wasting
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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE NUCLEAR TESTING

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WORDS THAT END LIKE NUCLEAR TESTING

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Synonyms and antonyms of nuclear testing in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «nuclear testing» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF NUCLEAR TESTING

Find out the translation of nuclear testing to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of nuclear testing from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «nuclear testing» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

核试验
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

pruebas nucleares
570 millions of speakers

English

nuclear testing
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

परमाणु परीक्षण
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

التجارب النووية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ядерные испытания
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

teste nuclear
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পারমাণবিক পরীক্ষা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

essais nucléaires
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ujian nuklear
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Atomtests
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

核実験
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

핵 실험
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tes nuklir
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thử nghiệm hạt nhân
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அணு சோதனை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

आण्विक चाचणी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Nükleer deneme
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

test nucleari
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

badania jądrowe
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

ядерні випробування
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

testelor nucleare
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

πυρηνικών δοκιμών
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kern toets
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

kärnvapenprov
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

atomprøvesprengninger
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of nuclear testing

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «NUCLEAR TESTING»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «NUCLEAR TESTING» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about nuclear testing

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5 QUOTES WITH «NUCLEAR TESTING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word nuclear testing.
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Jenny Shipley
The decision by France to resume nuclear testing in the South Pacific has destroyed this hope and raised a storm of protest at home, in the South Pacific and thankfully around the world.
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Jenny Shipley
The Pacific had great hope that when the former President Mitered decided to halt nuclear testing, we had put behind us the issue of nuclear states testing their weapons in our Pacific region.
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Martha Smith
There are all kinds of letters and protests that come from, not surprisingly, Japanese fishermen, the fishermen's wives; there are student groups, all different types of people; the protest against the Americans' use of the Pacific for nuclear testing.
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Martha Smith
I think the Bravo test is really important for a number of reasons. It's kind of symbolic. It raises a lot of the issues that are related to the whole controversy over nuclear testing.
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Martha Smith
There was a lot of protest after Bravo, from countries like India, for example. India was the first country which came forward and proposed at the United Nations that all of these nuclear tests should be stopped, that there should be a complete ban on nuclear testing.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NUCLEAR TESTING»

Discover the use of nuclear testing in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to nuclear testing and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Under the Cloud: The Decades of Nuclear Testing
In "a chilling documentary history of America's above-ground nuclear tests conducted during the 1950s and early 1960s, Miller takes on the subject and universalizes it, at the same time giving it the flavor of a Dos Passos novel" ("Kirkus ...
Richard L. Miller, 1991
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Amchitka and the bomb: nuclear testing in Alaska
nuclear testing in Alaska Dean Kohlhoff. and External Operational Safety Group, headed by Sandia, was comprised of personnel from the foregoing, supplemented by experts from a variety of institutions, including the United States Weather ...
Dean Kohlhoff, 2011
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Day of Two Suns: U.S. Nuclear Testing and the Pacific Islanders
" This is the story of the preparations for war which every day impinge on tire lives of Pacific Islanders caught on the cutting edge of the nuclear arms race.
Jane Dibblin, 1998
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They Never Knew: The Victims of Nuclear Testing
Examines the American government's role in developing nuclear weapons and conducting atomic testing, focusing on the effects of radiation on humans and the victims' attempts to sue the government for compensation.
Glenn Alan Cheney, 1996
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Catalog of worldwide nuclear testing
This unique volume has been compiled by a team of the best specialists of the Russian nuclear weapons establishment, headed by the former Minister of Atomic Energy of Russia, Victor Mikhailov, and including the following experts: I. A. ...
Viktor Nikitovich Mikhaĭlov, 1999
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The Pacific: nuclear testing and minorities
Details the impacts of nuclear testing on peoples and the environment and shows how Pacific island peoples are dealing with militarization, foreign domination, and ecological destruction.
Erich Weingärtner, Minority Rights Group, 1991
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God Does Exist No More Nuclear Testing and More
Gallery. of. US. Nuclear. Tests. Last. changed. 6. August. 2001. Between 16 July 1945and 23 September 1992 the United States of America conducted (by official count) 1054 nuclear tests, and two nuclear attacks. The number of actual ...
Jose Collazo, 2012
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Nuclear testing and national security
Since the 1950s, the United States has negotiated more than fifteen arms control agreements, several of which limited nuclear explosive testing by the signatories.
Roger N. Fritzel, National Defense University. Research Directorate, 1981
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The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty: An Insider's ...
This is a very valuable contribution to a greater understanding of the CTBT and the overall nuclear arms control picture.
Keith A. Hansen, 2006
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Nuclear testing program in the Marshall Islands: hearing ...
Bears, discusses the life of bears and profiles different types of bears provided by case studies examining individual species, along with facts and records on bears.
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NUCLEAR TESTING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term nuclear testing is used in the context of the following news items.
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IAEA Monitoring Iran's Nuclear Compliance: A Hopeless Task?
... been part of its nuclear program are no longer active and that no unauthorized nuclear testing is occurring at sites Iran has not disclosed. «U.S. News & World Report, Jul 15»
2
San Jose State: Dem bones most likely not Beethoven's
... though the author did persuade him as early as 2000 to take the bones to the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois for nuclear testing. «Santa Cruz Sentinel, Jul 15»
3
Eleven Things I Intend to Keep on Doing
If we'd quit complaining in the 1950s about atmospheric nuclear testing, many HuffPost readers would be dead today, even without a Third ... «TheTyee.ca, Jul 15»
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Nuclear War, Radioactive Fallout and the Earth's Global Ecosystem
U.S. nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands did not begin in 1954. Immediately after the end of the war, the United States began to make ... «Center for Research on Globalization, Jul 15»
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Why Solving Murders Is Going To Get A Lot Harder
... (C-14 concentrations in the atmosphere are currently higher than they were in pre-industrial times, because of Cold War-era nuclear testing.). «Gizmodo Australia, Jul 15»
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Don't nuke'em
... and reduce the global stockpile of nuclear weapons and has come up with an agreement to ban nuclear testing. Unfortunately, according to a ... «Meridian Booster, Jul 15»
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Are Nuclear Arms Control and Disarmament Agreements of Any …
But, given the new barriers, including international treaties banning further nuclear testing and discouraging nuclear proliferation, they refrained ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
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Runit Dome in Pacific leaking radioactive waste
The Runit Dome in the Marshall Islands is a legacy of years of US nuclear testing. Locals fear that rising waters will leak 111,000 cubic yards of ... «www.worldbulletin.net, Jul 15»
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Nuclear Power/IAEA Fast Facts
January 29, 1996 - France declares a moratorium on nuclear testing. July 29, 1996 - China declares a moratorium on nuclear testing. May 16, 1997 - The IAEA ... «KBZK Bozeman News, Jul 15»
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When Did the Nuclear Age Begin? 70 Years Ago, Today
An international treaty banning all nuclear testing—the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT)—was negotiated in 1996. Only India ... «The Equation: Blog of the Union of Concerned Scientists, Jul 15»

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