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[[File:EthalrianNukeTest.jpg|right|300px|thumb|First Nuclear Weapons Test by Ethalria under the Roter-Himmel Projekt, 5th June, 1953]] |
[[File:EthalrianNukeTest.jpg|right|300px|thumb|First Nuclear Weapons Test by Ethalria under the Roter-Himmel Projekt, 5th June, 1953]] |
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A '''nuclear weapons state''' is a country that maintains a stockpile of nuclear weapons and the necessary equipment to deploy and, if necessary, launch them. A [[wikipedia:nuclear weapon|nuclear weapon]] is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (called a fission bomb) or from a combination of fission and fusion reactions (called a thermonuclear bomb). |
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==History== |
==History== |