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  • 11Nuclear-powered icebreaker — Nuclear icebreaker Yamal on its way to the North Pole in August 2001 A nuclear powered icebreaker is a purpose built ship for use in waters continuously covered with ice. Icebreakers are ships capable of cruising on ice covered water by breaking… …

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  • 12freeze — [frēz] vi. froze, frozen, freezing [ME fresen < OE freosan, akin to OHG friosan (Ger frieren) < IE base * preus , to freeze, burn like cold > L pruina, hoarfrost, pruna, glowing coals] 1. to be formed into ice; be hardened or solidified… …

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  • 13Nuclear proliferation — World map with nuclear weapons development status represented by color.   Five nuclear weapons states from the NPT …

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  • 14freeze — I n. frost freezing 1) a deep, hard freeze freezer (BE) 2) a deep freeze fixing at a certain level 3) to impose a freeze 4) a nuclear; wage, wages (BE) freeze 5) a freeze on II v. 1) to freeze hard, solid (i …

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  • 15freeze — freezable, adj. freezability, n. /freez/, v., froze, frozen, freezing, n. v.i. 1. to become hardened into ice or into a solid body; change from the liquid to the solid state by loss of heat. 2. to become hard or stiffened because of loss of heat …

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  • 16freeze — [[t]fri͟ːz[/t]] ♦♦♦ freezes, freezing, froze, frozen 1) V ERG If a liquid or a substance containing a liquid freezes, or if something freezes it, it becomes solid because of low temperatures. If the temperature drops below 0°C, water freezes...… …

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  • 17Nuclear disarmament — United States and USSR/Russian nuclear weapons stockpiles, 1945 2006. These numbers include warheads not actively deployed, including those on reserve status or scheduled for dismantlement. Stockpile totals do not necessarily reflect nuclear… …

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  • 18Nuclear winter — For other uses, see Nuclear winter (disambiguation). Nuclear weapons History Warfare Arms race Design Testing …

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  • 19Nuclear meltdown — Three of the reactors at Fukushima I overheated, causing core meltdowns. This was compounded by hydrogen gas explosions and the venting of contaminated steam which released large amounts of radioactive material into the air.[1] …

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  • 20nuclear strategy — ▪ military Introduction  the formation of tenets and strategies for producing and using nuclear weapons.       Nuclear strategy is no different from any other form of strategy in that it involves relating military means to political ends. In this …

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