nuclear war

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India seems to have shown self-restraint. But if there is a next time, public opinion may force New Delhi to retaliate, which could bring both nations to the brink of nuclear war.
印度看起来保持了克制，但如果再次发生类似事件，公众舆论会迫使新德里当局采取报复行动，从而将两个国家拉到核战的边缘。
But President Dwight D. Eisenhower believed that any armed conflict with Moscow would accelerate into a thermonuclear holocaust, and he rejected outright this notion of “limited” nuclear war.
但是，德怀特·艾森豪威尔总统认为，与莫斯科的任何武装冲突都会加速核大战到来，因而明确拒绝了这种“有限”核战争观点。
Supporters of the Star Wars defense system hope that this would not only protect a nation against an actual nuclear attack, but would be enough of a threat to keep a nuclear war from ever happening.
星球大战防御绻统的支持者们希望它不仅能保护一个遭受核攻击的国家，也希望它能成为使核攻击游不发生的足够威胁。

Years of worry that the same rockets that could take people to the moon could also bring nuclear war to Earth.
Today's nuclear threat differs from that of the Cold War, according to U.S.Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, "The threat of nuclear war, nuclear attack that we grew up with in the Cold War has diminished.
North Korea says new U.N.sanctions could bring about war on the Korean peninsula and will not slow its nuclear program.

Lastly, there is the possibility of a nuclear war triggered by something other than a state.
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