6 definitions
Cooperative security (n.) took a century of slow, painful progress to build — collective action, agreed norms, a growing fabric of law — and one war could repudiate it all.
The Non-Proliferation Treaty (n.) has become a wisdom tooth rotten at the root, its abscess poisoning the international body politic.
Nuclear war (n.) is, unlike climate change, a threat we have the power to abolish, and cheaply — yet its effects would be instant and beyond mitigation.
Nuclear war (n.) is, unlike climate change, a threat it lies wholly in our power to remove — which is the irony of drifting toward it.
Nuclear weapons (n.) are, for a lesser power like Britain, only the lace curtains of its political poverty.
Nuclear-weapons-free zone (n.) is welcomed or blocked by the same reasoning run in reverse: a power supports one where it would bind a rival and resists one where it would bind itself.