proliferation (nuclear weapons)

proliferation (nuclear weapons)
The process by which one nation after another comes into possession of, or into the right to determine the use of, nuclear weapons; each nation becomes potentially able to launch a nuclear attack upon another nation.

Military dictionary. 2000.

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