These well-dispersed sites also insured that some would survive an enemy preemptive strike and ultimately prevail in a nuclear conflagration, since Israel possessed more weapons of mass destruction than its adversaries did.

The Bulletin was founded by the scientists who helped build America's atomic bomb, and the primary focus of their concerns remains the danger of a nuclear conflagration.

If Iran's program to develop such weapons succeeds, the world stands at greater risk of nuclear conflagration.

In the movie, neither the Soviet premier nor the American president wanted a nuclear conflagration, but that happened because neither had full knowledge of the other's situation and intentions.

Would we be willing to risk even one city to nuclear conflagration to defend Taiwan?

This must be true of all stars, since only in a very dense core can the nuclear conflagration that powers them be ig- nited.

The possibility of weapons of mass destruction from Pakistan falling into the hands of Islamic extremists remains a worrisome concern, as does the risk of a nuclear conflagration with India.

It makes dramatic predictions of the effect of nuclear conflagration on the earth's climate (Nuclear winter).

But even he might not be prepared to unleash a global nuclear conflagration on the expectation that a better order would emerge once many millions of Muslims and infidels died.

Mr. Kopit's principal character is a playwright who believes that the world will come to a violent end in a nuclear conflagration if he does not write a play about it.