Nuclear War - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: nuclear warnuclear war
A war in which nuclear weapons are used by both sides As generally used the term assumes major use of nuclear weapons by at least two opposing warring states As of 1999 no nuclear war has occurred...
nuclear winter
a hypothetical lowering of global temperature postulated as the aftermath of a full nuclear war The mechanism of such an effect depends primarily on the injection into the atmosphere of small solid particles as soot from burning forests which reflect sunlight and cause a reduction in solar energy retained by the earth...
Nuclear weapon or other nuclear explosive device
Nuclear weapon or other nuclear explosive device, means any nuclear weapon or other nuclear explosive device as may be determined by the Central Government, whose determination in the matter shall be final [Weapons of Mass Destruction and their Delivery Systems (Prohibitions of Unlawful Activities Act, 2005 (21 of 2005), s. 4(b)]...
Nuclear
of pertaining to or using nuclear weapons a nuclear exchange ie a reciprocal bombardment by nuclear weapons...
nuclear powered submarine
A submarine for which the motive power comes from the energy generated by a nuclear reactor Same as nuclear submarine...
war crime
war crime : an act committed usually during an international war for which individual criminal liability will be imposed by a domestic or international tribunal ;specif : a violation of the laws or customs of war as embodied or recognized by international treaty, court decisions, or established practice usually used in pl. NOTE: Following World War II, the Charter of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg first codified war crimes including crimes against humanity. Also encompassed in the legal concept of war crimes is the crime of planning or waging a war of aggression or a war in violation of international treaties. ...
Declaration of war
Declaration of war. The formal announcement by one nation of an intention to treat another nation as an enemy and to commence hostilities, agreed to be necessary by the Hague Convention, 1907. In modern times the future belligerents, generally, are in a state of war before any declaration of war is made. Before this Convention was signed, in the war between Russia and Japan, the Japanese ambassador, on the 6th February, 1904, notified to Russia the rupture of negotiations and the cessation of diplomatic relations, hostile operations were commenced by Japan on the 8th February, and formal declarations of war were not made until the 10th of February by Japan, and 11th February by Russia. The British Declaration of War on Germany was made on the 4th August, 1914, after an ultimatum.The force of a declaration of war is equal to that of an Act of Parliament prohibiting intercourse with the enemy except by the king's license. As an act of State done by virtue of the prerogative it carries wi...
nuclear energy
Energy derived from nuclear reactions used at present especially of electrical power generated in atomic reactors but encompassing also fusion energy...
nuclear engineering
The branch of engineering concerned with the design and construction and operation of nuclear reactors...
nuclear fission
A nuclear reaction in which a heavy atomic nucleus splits into smaller nuclei with the simultaneous release of energy...
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