annihilation
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In 2022, during the last review of the treaty considered the cornerstone of non-proliferation, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned humanity was "one misunderstanding, one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation."
From Barron's ● Apr. 27, 2026
Standard particle-based models of dark matter typically describe two main possibilities for how annihilation occurs.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 10, 2026
Relations between Washington and Moscow were starting to thaw, yet a staggering stockpile of almost 70,000 nuclear warheads meant the threat of annihilation lingered in the air.
From Slate ● Feb. 2, 2026
“This move is unprecedented in the history of the Chinese military and represents the total annihilation of the high command,” said Christopher Johnson, head of China Strategies Group, a political-risk consulting firm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 25, 2026
The days stand like angels in blue and gold, incomprehensible, above the ring of annihilation.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
"For a given mass, such annihilations are the densest form of energy release that we know of," Fajans added.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 27, 2023
Around the galaxies, moats of empty space would open that would prevent matter-antimatter annihilations and, oddly, mimic dark matter dynamically.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 27, 2023
Dark matter annihilations could raise the temperature of a planet 14 times as massive as Jupiter from 250 K to 500 K or more, the researchers estimate.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 26, 2021
Similar annihilations occur for other combinations of a particle with its antiparticle, sometimes producing more particles while obeying all conservation laws.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
He rejected the notion that animals and plants suffered sudden annihilations, and believed that all the principal animal groups–mammals, reptiles, fish, and so on–had coexisted since the dawn of time.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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