nuclear stability

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nuclear stability [′nü·klē·ər stə′bil·əd·ē]

(nuclear physics)

The ability of an isotope to resist decay or fission.

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No references found			7) All international and regional measures aimed at promoting and achieving nuclear stability in South Asia must focus on ensuring that the nuclear-escalation threshold of the militarily weaker country--Pakistan--does not drop. Airpower imbalance: nuclear Pakistans's Achilles' heel by Ashraf, Tariq Mahmud / Air & Space Power Journal He also looks at the motivations for Saudi Arabia to acquire nuclear weapons, explores Chinese strategic involvement in the region, and critically engages the argument that balance-of-power and deterrent calculations would lead to the nuclear stability achieved by the US and the USSR during the Cold War. Weapons proliferation and war in the greater Middle East; strategic ... by Reference & Research Book News Theorists have long suspected that element 114 would show remarkable nuclear stability. New element leaves lightweights behind by Weiss, P / Science News			Nuclear Reaction nuclear reaction spectrometry Nuclear Reactor Nuclear Reactor Core nuclear receptor superfamily nuclear recoil Nuclear Regulatory Commission nuclear relaxation nuclear resonance nuclear resonance magnetometer nuclear response function nuclear rocket Nuclear Rocket Engine nuclear scattering nuclear sclerosis Nuclear Shell nuclear ship nuclear snow gage nuclear spallation nuclear species Nuclear spectra Nuclear Spectroscopy nuclear spectrum nuclear spin nuclear spontaneous reaction nuclear stability nuclear star nuclear strategy Nuclear structure nuclear submarine nuclear superheating nuclear teleoperator Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty of 1963 nuclear thermionic converter nuclear time scale nuclear transfer nuclear transformation nuclear triode detector nuclear twin-probe gage nuclear warhead nuclear waste Nuclear Weapon nuclear weapons nuclear winter nuclear yield nuclear Zeeman effect nuclear-electric propulsion nuclear-electric rocket engine Nuclear-Free Zone Nuclear-Propulsion Plant			nuclear sex Nuclear shell Nuclear shell model Nuclear ship Nuclear ship Nuclear Shipyard Worker Study Nuclear Single-Stranded Binding Factor Nuclear Site Stakeholder Round Tables Nuclear Smuggling International Technical Working Group Nuclear Smuggling Outreach Initiative nuclear snow gage Nuclear Somatic Transfer nuclear spallation nuclear species nuclear species nuclear species Nuclear spectra Nuclear Spectrometry Users' Forum Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array Nuclear Spectroscopy nuclear spectrum Nuclear Spectrum Measurement nuclear spin nuclear spin Nuclear Spin Quantum Computer Nuclear Spin-Lattice Relaxation nuclear spindle nuclear spindle nuclear spindle nuclear spontaneous reaction nuclear stability nuclear stain nuclear stain nuclear stain nuclear stain nuclear stalemate Nuclear Standards Program Information Center nuclear star nuclear steam raising plant Nuclear Steam Supply System Nuclear Storage Facility Nuclear strategies Nuclear strategy Nuclear strategy Nuclear stress test Nuclear Strike Bomb Nuclear Strike Effects Nuclear Strike Plan nuclear strike warning Nuclear structure Nuclear structure Nuclear structure Nuclear structure Nuclear Structure and Decay Data Nuclear Structure Astrophysics and Reactions Nuclear Structure Facility Nuclear sub Nuclear sub Nuclear sub nuclear submarine nuclear submarine

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