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European Atomic Energy Community
(Encyclopedia)European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom or EAEC), economic organization that came into being as the 3d treaty organization of what has become the European Union; established by the Treaty of Rome (1...nuclear weapons
(Encyclopedia)nuclear weapons, weapons of mass destruction powered by atomic, rather than chemical, processes. Nuclear weapons produce large explosions and hazardous radioactive byproducts by means of either nuclea...disarmament, nuclear
(Encyclopedia)disarmament, nuclear, the reduction and limitation of the various nuclear weapons in the military forces of the world's nations. The atomic bombs dropped (1945) on Japan by the United States in World ...United Nations Atomic Energy Commission
(Encyclopedia)United Nations Atomic Energy Commission: see disarmament, nuclear. ...dark energy
(Encyclopedia)dark energy, repulsive force that opposes the self-attraction of matter (see gravitation) and causes the expansion of the universe to accelerate. The search for dark energy was triggered by the discov...free energy
(Encyclopedia)free energy or Gibbs free energy, quantity derived from the relationships between heat and work studied in thermodynamics and used as a measure of the relative stability of a physical or chemical syst...geothermal energy
(Encyclopedia)geothermal energy: see energy, sources of. ...nuclear disarmament
(Encyclopedia)nuclear disarmament: see disarmament, nuclear. ...nuclear strategy
(Encyclopedia)nuclear strategy, a policy for the use of nuclear weapons. The first atomic bombs were used in the context of the Allies' World War II policy of strategic bombing. Early in the cold war, U.S. policy w...nuclear structure
(Encyclopedia)nuclear structure: see nucleus. ...Browse by Subject
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