Nuclear armaments

Japanese: 核軍備 - かくぐんび
Nuclear armaments

...Here, "security" refers to the act of preserving a nation's territory and protecting its political independence in response to the threat or use of force, and military force refers to the power a nation possesses for its security. After World War II, with the emergence of nuclear weapons, armaments came to be divided into nuclear and conventional armaments. However, during the Cold War, if an all-out nuclear war broke out between the two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, which possessed first-class nuclear armaments, it would have been inevitable that both nations, or even the entire world, would have been destroyed.

*Some of the terminology that refers to "nuclear armaments" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…ここでいう〈安全保障〉とは,武力による威嚇または武力の行使に対応して国家の領土を保全し政治的独立を守るための行為であり,武力すなわち軍事力とは国家がその安全保障などのために保持する力をいう。第2次大戦後,核兵器の登場によって軍備は核軍備と通常軍備に区分されることとなった。しかし冷戦下で第一級の核軍備を保有している米ソ両超大国間で全面核戦争が行われれば,双方の,あるいは全世界の破壊とならざるをえない状況にあった。…

※「核軍備」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報

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