The Collaborative International Dictionary
nuclear war \nuclear war\ n. A war in which nuclear weapons are used by both sides. As generally used, the term assumes major use of nuclear weapons by at least two opposing warring states. As of 1999, no nuclear war has occurred.
Wiktionary
n. A war fought using nuclear (fission of fusion) weapons.
Wikipedia
Nuclear War is a card game designed by Douglas Malewicki, and originally published in 1965. It is currently (as of 2012) published by Flying Buffalo, and has inspired several expansions. It is a satirical simulation of an end-of-the-world scenario fought mostly with nuclear weapons.
- Redirect Nuclear warfare
Nuclear War is a single player turn-based strategy game developed by New World Computing and released for the Amiga in 1989 and later for MS-DOS. It presents a satirical, cartoonish nuclear battle between five world powers, in which the winner is whoever retains some population when everyone else on earth is dead.
A Nuclear War is a war in which nuclear weapons are used.
Nuclear War may also refer to:
- Nuclear War (card game)
- Nuclear War (video game)
- Nuclear War MUD, a text-based online role-playing game
- Nuclear War, an album by Sun Ra, and its title track
- Nuclear War, an EP by Yo La Tengo
- "Nuclear War (On the Dance Floor)", a song by Electric Six from Fire
Usage examples of "nuclear war".
Maybe billions, because, gentlemen, this device should save us from a nuclear war.
Miller, who had worked for Cheney in the Pentagon on nuclear war plans, knew that special operations officers were a breed apart.
If my particle beam weapon passes this test, soon it will be operational, and then nuclear war will have become obsolete.
When I was a child, people talked about 'pushing the button' as though there was a magic red button that could bring nuclear war.
That's how many times I have to be told we can survive a nuclear war .
That's the length of time that elapsed between the defeat of the Spanish Armada and the first nuclear war.
Even if he weren't, it would be a nuisance but would hardly constitute a defeat for this course of action: even if we spend twenty years searching for Saddam Hussein around the world, if he were not in power in Iraq he could not threaten the Middle East with nuclear war.
This represented a break with long-standing tradition to award the prize only to civilian peaceniks, such as Jimmy Carter, Rigoberta Menchu, Kofi Annan, Woodrow Wilson (for founding the League of Nations in 1919 and putting an end to war just in the nick of time), Amnesty International, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, and Linus Pauling.
Much like Site R, it was built to survive a nuclear war, back when the bombs were bigger in design, smaller in yield, and significantly less accurate.
Fortunately for the people who were intended to occupy the facility in the event of a nuclear war, Mount Weather never got the chance to take its place beside the Siegfried and Maginot lines in history’.