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And that elevated the risk of the world being plunged into a nuclear war that none of the nuclear-armed states intended.

"Northerners" would be excluded from any suffrage bill because their nuclear-armed country has no diplomatic ties with Japan.

Erdogan also defends Iran's right to a nuclear programme, panicking western diplomats who are trying to prevent a nuclear-armed Iran.

I seriously question the sanity of any American calling for a strong and nuclear armed Japanese military.

Yet deep divergences remain among the states trying to coax North Korea out of its nuclear-armed isolation.

And she stressed that she did not mean to imply that a nuclear armed Iran is inevitable.

North Korea, a nuclear-armed state, seems to be increasingly unstable. What can the big powers do about it?

Perhaps more significantly, a host of other nations are also becoming more involved in trying to calm the two nuclear-armed rivals.

The United States wants nuclear-armed Pakistan to be a more reliable partner in its war on militancy.

Hudson said it was the first time since the cold war that two nuclear-armed submarines were known to have collided.

The Seoul government vowed to " sternly deal with" Pyongyang's act, saying it would not tolerate a nuclear-armed North Korea.

An unstable, nuclear-armed Pakistan, intertwined with a chaotic and Taliban-dominated Afghanistan: it is not a settling prospect.

The French navy confirmed to TIME that it does not give the positions of its nuclear-armed submarines to NATO forces.

Chinese now ask whether Beijing underestimates the costs of a nuclear-armed North Korea and being the largest backer of the Kim regime.

The latest terror attacks in Pakistan have served as a reminder of the extremist threat to that nuclear-armed state.

In Europe there is a degree of acceptance that, sooner or later, the world may have to deal with a nuclear-armed Iran.

He has said that the only thing worse than a war with Iran would be a nuclear-armed Iran.

The prospect of a nuclear-armed Iran is the biggest threat facing the world, according to one of Barack Obama's top foreign policy advisers.

Another minister blamed India outright, saying that the militants had crossed the border between the two nuclear-armed rivals.

Relations between the two nuclear-armed nations continue to be marked by distrust.

President Bush says a nuclear-armed Iran would be a dangerous place, stressing Tehran has a decision to make.

Nuclear-armed India, it notes, was once a pariah and is now courted by America with offers of nuclear help.

THE tyrant has perished, leaving a failing, nuclear-armed nation in the uncertain young hands of his "Great Successor" .

The package includes dozens of fighter jets, which could be used in any future confrontation with a nuclear-armed Iran.

The subs can carry up to 16 nuclear missiles each and both countries have four-vessel nuclear-armed sub fleets.

Beijing has traditionally been fearful of a potential regime collapse in nuclear-armed North Korea.

We have to ask whether 10 or 20 or 50 nuclear-armed nations will protect their arsenals and refrain from using them.

Both, albeit in different ways, are threatened by the unpredictability of the nuclear-armed regime in Pyongyang.

And for India, the nuclear deal offers access to U. S. technology and virtu-ally free membership in the club of nuclear-armed nations.

Only 10 per cent of Turkish respondents support such a course of action, while 56 per cent said they would accept a nuclear-armed Iran.

A more overtly nuclear-armed North Korea would also bolster Japan's already increasingly close security pact with America.

But instability in a nuclear-armed country is in no one's interests.

Le Triomphant, which entered service in 1997, carries 16 nuclear missiles and is one of four nuclear-armed submarines in the French fleet.

Nuclear-armed India and Pakistan, an incendiary couple, risk a proxy war through the different ethnic groups they sponsor in the country.

It is also prey to many more frequent and murderous terrorist attacks, and has testy relations with a nuclear-armed neighbour.

With the number of nuclear-armed states threatening to grow, Britain probably does need to maintain a nuclear deterrent.

S. has sought to remain neutral in the thorny relationship between the nuclear-armed neighbors.

The fallout from a nuclear-armed Iran would be still more destabilising.

Since defecting in 1997, Mr Hwang has infuriated Pyongyang, delivering fiery speeches against the nuclear-armed dictatorship of Kim Jong-il.

The prospect of a nuclear-armed North Korea, however, might just be seen as even worse.

Beijing has consistently given the impression that it is more worried at the thought of a collapsed regime than one that is nuclear armed.

In recent weeks, the president has warned that the world cannot risk a nuclear-armed Iran, saying it could lead to World War Three.

He has pledged to investigate a supposedly secret deal allowing American nuclear-armed vessels to use Japanese ports.

Stepping up his rhetoric, Bush said a nuclear-armed Iran would pose a "dangerous threat to world peace. "

The prospect of a nuclear-armed Iran concerns us all.

By pursuing the jihadists into Pakistan, America has helped to destabilize a paranoid, nuclear-armed country of 190m Muslims.

By pursuing the jihadists into Pakistan, America has helped to destabilise a paranoid, nuclear-armed country of 190m Muslims.

Much as it would abhor a nuclear-armed Iran, China does not want to jeopardise important supplies of oil and gas.

He also wants a US pledge not to bring nuclear-armed vessels or aircraft into Japanese ports and airports.

And its response to North Korea going nuclear suggests that a nuclear armed Iran is something it could live with.

Solution: Take out the command-and-control networks on both sides before these nuclear-armed foes can go to war for a fifth time.

In fact, many states rely on "nuclear umbrellas" provided by their allied nuclear-armed states.

In contrast, for Japan, South Korea and the US, a nuclear-armed North Korea poses a clear security threat.

In the mid-1990s the two nuclear-armed states inched to the brink of war over the island.

China and India have long been nuclear-armed military and strategic rivals.

Nuclear-armed bombers were on the alert during the crisis.

"It isn't just naive, it is dangerous, " McCain, warning that a nuclear armed Tehran threatened a "second Holocaust. "

Beijing's military industry spent the period from 1956 to 1981 developing and deploying its first-generation nuclear-armed missiles.

But people are starving in a nuclear armed state.

Nuclear-armed Pyongyang denies the charge.

Nuclear- armed bombers were put on the alert during the crisis .

In any case, the situation in Pakistan, a nuclear-armed state of 180m people, looks dire.

A nuclear-armed Iran would ignite a nuclear arms race in the Middle East.

To head off such threats, nuclear-armed states need to start shedding weapons.

For Mr Obama it is fear of a nuclear-armed Iran.

But the likeliest explanation is that conflict between nuclear-armed states is just too dangerous to consider.

British lawmakers in 2007 approved a 20 billion-pound ($30 billion) program to replace the fleet with new nuclear-armed submarines.

Now the two nuclear-armed powers need to build on it.

In Japan, we live with the constant threat from our nuclear-armed neighbor North Korea.

An American-led West spent four decades tussling with a nuclear-armed empire that stretched from Berlin to Vladivostok;

ImagIne nuclear-armed India decidIng to attack terrorist camps In nuclear-armed Pakistan

They should play an active role in helping nuclear-armed states disarm. There are many ways for them to collaborate