The phrase "atomic standoff" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing a tense situation involving nuclear weapons or a standoff between parties with significant power or threats.
Example: "The two nations found themselves in an atomic standoff, each unwilling to back down from their demands."
Alternatives: "nuclear standoff" or "nuclear impasse".
These warnings are part of a trove of diplomatic cables reaching back to the genesis of the Iranian nuclear standoff in which leaders from around the world offer their unvarnished opinions about how to negotiate with, threaten and perhaps force Iran's leaders to renounce their atomic ambitions.
A top Saudi official discussed the idea in a magazine interview this week as a way to defuse Iran's nuclear standoff with the West, saying power plants would receive only the fuel they needed to ensure that none would be used for atomic weapons.
On a more fundamental level, the standoff over nuclear power underscores just how much the trauma of the Fukushima accident has changed attitudes in Japan, long one of the world's most committed promoters of civilian atomic energy.
The terrifying new power of atomic weapons was to lead to a standoff suitably known as Mad – Mutually Assured Destruction.
The launch of a three-stage rocket similar in design to a model capable of carrying a nuclear-tipped warhead as far as California raises the stakes in the international standoff over North Korea's expanding atomic arsenal.
John Mecklin, editor-in-chief of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, echoed the analysis that this is a standoff neither side can win through military action.
John Mecklin, editor-in-chief of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, echoed the analysis that this is a standoff neither side can win through military action.
North Korea Agrees to End Nuclear Arms Program North Korea agreed to end its nuclear weapons program in return for security, economic and energy benefits, potentially easing tensions with the United States after a two-year standoff over the country's efforts to build atomic bombs.
BEIJING, Monday, Sept. 19 - North Korea agreed Monday to end its nuclear weapons program in return for security, economic and energy benefits, potentially easing tensions with the United States after a two-year standoff over the North's efforts to build atomic bombs.
