Pyongyang said the deployment created a situation that brought nuclear conflict closer to reality.

平壤方面表示，美方的这一部署让核冲突变得更为可能。

For U.S. officials, the key is to avoid miscalculations that, in the worst case, could touch off a nuclear conflict.

对美国官员来说，关键是避免引发核冲突的错误。

What about these new fears of nuclear conflict?

这些对核冲突的新恐惧又如何呢？

And that’s what is likely to happen in the event of a nuclear conflict.

这就是在发生核冲突时可能发生的情况。

The world stared down the barrel of nuclear conflict many times, but then hope sprang up as the concrete in Berlin came tumbling down.

很多次，世界都很难面对核冲突爆发的威胁, 当柏林的混凝土墙面轰然倒塌，希望再次涌现出来。

Russian Foreign Min. Sergei Lavrov warned Ukraine against provoking World War III and said the threat of a nuclear conflict should not be underestimated.

俄罗斯外长谢尔盖·拉夫罗夫警告乌克兰不要挑起第三次世界大战，并表示不应低估核冲突的威胁。

A summit of Nobel prize winners has warned that the world is at a greater danger of a nuclear conflict than at any time since the end of the Cold War.

诺奖得主峰会警告称，自冷战结束以来，全世界面临的核冲突危险比以往任何时候都要大。