The advocacy of nuclear weapons and nuclear technology for the maintenance of national security

plural of nuclear charge

(physics) The electric charge of a nucleus of an atom, equal to the number of protons in the nucleus times the elementary charge.

describing the weak nuclear force

Describing the strong nuclear force.

(physics) The combining of the nuclei of small atoms to form the nuclei of larger ones, with a resulting release of large quantities of energy; the process that makes the sun shine, and hydrogen bomb explode.

A nuclear weapon

(physics) A nuclear reaction in which a large nucleus splits into smaller ones, sometimes accompanied by the simultaneous release of energy.

A family unit consisting of two parents (traditionally a mother and a father) and their children.

A process such as the fission of an atomic nucleus, or the fusion of one or more atomic nuclei and/or subatomic particles in which the number of protons and/or neutrons in a nucleus changes; the reaction products may contain a different element or a different isotope of the same element.