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nuclearist en · ADJ

Etymology

From nuclear + -ist.

Meanings

1. Supportive of nuclear technology, especially nuclear weapons.
   • Critically, both nuclearist and anti-nuclearist discourses suggest the identity of the nuclear possessor is irrelevant. 2021, Paul Beaumont, Performing Nuclear Weapons: How Britain Made Trident Make Sense, page 101:
   • It is argued that these texts display the limits of nuclearist subjectivity, representing the possibilities and limitations of a space predicated on the loss of atomic self-control. 1997, Steven John Dorney, Nuclear fables: a study of narratives from the atomic age:
   • The nuclearist state would choose to maintain a nuclear force even if all other states declared they would not. 2018, Bruce Larkin, Nuclear Designs: Great Britain, France and China in the global governance of nuclear arms:

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