Sentence examples for nuclear extinction from inspiring English sources

Untold millions of Americans, his accusers charged, faced the threat of nuclear extinction because of this traitor.

She had once miscarried, and the couple were reluctant to bring children into a world that seemed on the brink of nuclear extinction.

We have been numbed by the threat of nuclear extinction, AIDS, school shootings, the Oklahoma City bombing, the events of Sept. 11 and so much more.

Dr. Robert Jay Lifton has spent more than half a century pondering subjects like genocide, terrorism and nuclear extinction, but he says he is not gloomy: "One's life work can be devoted to dreadful events without becoming deeply pessimistic".

WH Auden called those postwar times The Age of Anxiety and, beneath the seemingly placid, self-satisfied surface, there was a seething discontent about conformity, social manipulation, consumerism and the future of a world threatened by nuclear extinction and environmental pollution.

The possibility of nuclear extinction is real.

We're going to have to address great crises globally in the 21st century--catastrophic climate change, mass extinction, nuclear proliferation, income inequality.

Nuclear war meant human extinction, so war no longer made any sense.

Now extinction by nuclear war — or a terrorist attack or ecocide — looms as a likelier prospect in the popular imagination.

The fundamental aim of both nations is to avoid extinction by nuclear weapons, and the chances are that Gromyko and Kissinger will lean heavily on their clients to settle.

Human extinction from nuclear war would be a combination of the initial devastation caused, economic disruption and then finally the global environmental effects.