nuclear crisis
Reactor disaster looming
A nuclear crisis is a dangerous situation involving nuclear weapons or nuclear power that threatens catastrophic consequences.
The term typically describes standoffs between nuclear-armed nations where the risk of nuclear war becomes acute: The Cuban Missile Crisis brought the world to the brink of nuclear war.
It can also refer to emergencies at nuclear facilities: The Fukushima nuclear crisis forced mass evacuations.
- meltdownCatastrophic loss of control
- chain reactionSelf-sustaining causal sequence
- radiationEnergy propagation through space
- falloutPost-blast atmospheric particles
- ground zeroExplosion's central impact point
reactor · Chernobyl · Fukushima · mushroom cloud · evacuation · fallout shelter · contamination · plutonium · uranium · warhead · missile · arms race · bunker · siren · countdown · deterrence · mutually assured destruction · escalation
- Korean historyJoseon dynasty, Three Kingdoms, DMZ, demilitarized zone, Korean DMZ
- crisesemergency, disaster, natural disaster, catastrophe, calamity
- Tohoku HistoryNorthern Alliance
nuclear crisisconventional warfare
Armed conflict using standard military forces
proxy war · border dispute · guerrilla warfare · regional conflict
nuclear, crisis, nucleus, nuclei, nucleic, nucleotide, nucleotides, nukes, nuking