In the United States Senate, the nuclear option is a parliamentary procedure that allows the Senate to override a standing rule by a simple majority, avoiding...

Samson Option The Samson Option (Hebrew: ברירת שמשון, romanized: b'rerat shimshon) is Israel's deterrence strategy of massive retaliation with nuclear weapons...

Look up nuclear option in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The nuclear option is a political tactic used in the United States Senate. Nuclear option may also...

high level former Soviet nuclear and military–industrial planners reveal that Fidel Castro continued to favour nuclear options, even during the later Cold...

Nuclear Energy (2007) Protect and Survive (1980) The Psychology of Nuclear Proliferation (2006) Reaction Time: Climate Change and the Nuclear Option (2007)...

leadership, the Senate Democratic majority controversially invoked the "nuclear option" to eliminate the 60-vote requirement to end a filibuster for presidential...

Senate's filibuster. Notably, in 2013 and 2017, the Senate used the nuclear option to set a series of precedents that reduced the threshold for cloture...

detonation of nuclear weapons. Five are considered to be nuclear-weapon states (NWS) under the terms of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons...

the Middle East believed to possess nuclear weapons. The Samson Option refers to Israel's ability to use nuclear weapons against attackers as a deterrence...

2005 debate on the nuclear option was a political debate in the United States Senate regarding the possible use of the nuclear option to allow a simple...

Nuclear power in Australia has been a topic of debate since the 1930s. Australia has one nuclear reactor at Lucas Heights, New South Wales, which is only...

A nuclear close call is an incident that might have led to at least one unintended nuclear detonation or explosion, but did not. These incidents typically...

compromise in the spring of 2005 to avoid the deployment of the so-called "nuclear option" by Senate Republican Majority over an organized use of the filibuster...

planning takeover – The nuclear option". The Economist. 12 November 2009. Retrieved 13 January 2012. "The nuclear energy option in the UK" (PDF). Parliamentary...

A nuclear reactor is a device used to initiate and control a fission nuclear chain reaction. Nuclear reactors are used at nuclear power plants for electricity...

important books: On Escalation (Herman Kahn, 1965) and Escalation and the Nuclear Option (Bernard Brodie, 1966). In those contexts, it especially referred to...

Nuclear marine propulsion is propulsion of a ship or submarine with heat provided by a nuclear reactor. The power plant heats water to produce steam for...

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Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy is a 1991 book by Seymour Hersh. It details the history of Israel's nuclear weapons...

that Tehran halted a nuclear weapons program in fall 2003, but that Iran "at a minimum is keeping open the option to develop nuclear weapon". Russian analyst...

nomination to block his confirmation. However, Republicans invoked the "nuclear option", eliminating the filibuster with respect to Supreme Court nominees...

Nuclear engineering is the engineering discipline concerned with designing and applying systems that utilize the energy released by nuclear processes...

several programs exploring the use of nuclear fission for military technology, including nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons. Like the similar wartime programs...

climate change? Embrace the nuclear option". USA Today. Retrieved December 7, 2020. "First time majority oppose nuclear energy", Gallup, March 16, 2016...

judges during a president's first two years. McConnell invoked the nuclear option to eliminate the 60-vote requirement to end a filibuster for Supreme...

rather than a rule change, is called the constitutional option by proponents, and the nuclear option by opponents. On November 21, 2013, the Democratic-controlled...

1909 – 24 January 1966) was an Indian nuclear physicist who is widely credited as the "father of the Indian nuclear programme". He was the founding director...

Rafsanjani had admitted the nuclear option was explored and referred to it in an interview. However, according to the Iranian nuclear hope website, Rafsanjani's...

simple majority vote to change the rules (exercising the parliamentary "nuclear option"). As a result of the changed precedent, judicial nominees to federal...

existing Senate rules by using what Senator Trent Lott termed the "nuclear option". This change in rules would eliminate the use of the filibuster to...