NUCLEAR-FREE ZONE Definition & Meaning

nuclear-free zone

[noo-klee-er-free zohn, nyoo-]

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noun

any area in which nuclear weapons, power plants, or materials are not allowed.

nuclear-free zone

noun

an area barred, esp by local authorities, to the storage or deployment of nuclear weapons

nuclear-free zone

An area in which nuclear weapons, by choice of the residents, may not be moved or stored. A number of areas around the world, such as New Zealand, have declared themselves nuclear-free zones, or have attempted to.

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Pronunciation Note

See nuclear ( def. ).

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Brendan Pittman, 33 — who founded the Berkeley Amend movement, aiming to get his city to drop its “nuclear-free zone” status — said he’s noticed that younger people have become more open to learning about nuclear energy.

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But the eclectic tourist town — which has declared itself an “international city of peace” and a “nuclear-free zone” — has been rocked in recent weeks by increasingly brazen protests over the brutal war between Israel and Hamas.

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At Monday’s long-planned opening of a United Nations conference whose goal is to establish a nuclear-free zone in the Middle East, many ambassadors expressed condemnations and criticisms of comments by Israel’s Heritage Minister Amihai Eliyahu, who later called his remarks in a radio interview Sunday “metaphorical.”

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Australia is party to a nuclear-free zone treaty with 12 other South Pacific nations, including Fiji, in a region where sensitivity over nuclear weapons is high because of the effects of nuclear weapons tests by the United States and France.

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Indonesian officials have said they want to have a nuclear-free zone around its territory.

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