What is "nuclear forces"

Usage examples of "nuclear forces".

A pulsar is the end state of a massive star, a sun shrunk to the size of a city, held up as no other stars are, not by gas pressure, not by electron degeneracy, but by nuclear forces.

For example, in March 1969, thousands of Chinese and Russian troops clashed along the Ussuri and Amur Rivers, prompting the Russians to hint at using nuclear weapons and the Chinese to respond by alerting their nuclear forces.

As had been done under the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty, the surplus missiles were dismantled to their component stages, which were either crushed or otherwise destroyed before witnesses.

At no time, the source pointed out, was there any thought of increasing American alert levels, or of bringing American nuclear forces to higher states of readiness.

However, the discovery of the neutron and of nuclear forces knocked that one on the head too.

A moment later, another aide came rushing in with the latest force status reports for the Single Integrated Operations Plan (SIOP) and non-SIOP nuclear forces.

Although, technically, the American nuclear forces were under the combat command of the U.

While Mallows look of patience never changed, the nuclear forces that tore at him consumed themselves against that fragile, pearly illumination, and crashed back to die in mid-air.