Definition of "nuclearism" [nuclearism]

• The advocacy of nuclear weapons and nuclear technology for the maintenance of national security (noun)

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• "Crucial to the Hiroshima legacy is what we call nuclearism, the exaggerated dependency on nuclear weapons and frequent embrace of them to the point of nearworship."
• "When Pope John XXIII talked about "the signs of the times" -- poverty, nuclearism, sexism -- I began to read these new signs with a new conscience and with a new sense of religious life in mind."
• "There is a lot of news about nuclearism these days."