Definition of "nuclearizing" [nuclearizing]

• Present participle of nuclearize. (verb)

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• "The threat of an erratic and nuclearizing North Korea has kept military coordination between the allies tight over the past decades, but the political relationship has often been under significant strain."
• "The world remains a dangerous place in some very real respects--especially with nuclearizing rogue states such as Iran and North Korea--and this requires a significant degree of vigilance."
• "But these are not normal times, when the United Nations provides Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, their human rights podium to a serial human rights abuser of Bahais and gays, a Holocaust denier and a nuclearizing leader who threatens genocide against a fellow UN member."