1. This would leave nuclear-armed bombers, cruise missiles and depth charges.

2. New Zealand legislation prohibiting nuclear-powered or nuclear-armed ships from its territorial waters had been first enforced in February 1985.

3. The prospect of a nuclear-armed Iran concerns us all.

4. Hot-blooded retaliation against a nuclear-armed despot would be fraught with danger for the peninsula, and for relations between America and China, the main backers of south and north respectively.

5. North Korea, a nuclear-armed state, seems to be increasingly unstable.

6. President Bush says a nuclear-armed Iran would be a dangerous place, stressing Tehran has a decision to make.

7. Much as it would abhor a nuclear-armed Iran, China does not want to jeopardise important supplies of oil and gas.

8. Where nuclear-armed Pakistan is concerned, facing what he called a significant though small radicalized minority, Biden said there is no choice but to continue current efforts.

9. North Korea, a nuclear-armed state, seems to be increasingly unstable. What can the big powers do about it?

10. A more overtly nuclear-armed North Korea would also bolster Japan's already increasingly close security pact with America.

11. No American president or Congress would want to give their blessing to a nuclear-armed Iran continuing to threaten the Jewish state with destruction.

12. And what the US fails to explain is exactly what it thinks China has to gain from a nuclear-armed rogue state randomly threatening its neighbours and China's own national interests.

13. The 12-tonne missile, which was indigenously developed, is part of an arsenal intended as a deterrent towards Pakistan and China, its nuclear-armed neighbours.

14. He also wants a US pledge not to bring nuclear-armed vessels or aircraft into Japanese ports and airports.

15. We have to ask whether 10 or 20 or 50 nuclear-armed nations will protect their arsenals and refrain from using them.

16. Chinese now ask whether Beijing underestimates the costs of a nuclear-armed North Korea and being the largest backer of the Kim regime.

17. But if you take seriously what Hamas says in its charter, Hamas itself does believe this. So does Hizbullah, Lebanon's "Party of God"; and so does a rising and soon perhaps nuclear-armed Iran.

18. On Iran, he said: "I cannot live with a nuclear-armed Iran.

19. Commit to responding to multiple(Sentence dictionary), overlapping global challenges -- This means wars but also other major incidents such as the collapse of a nuclear-armed state or a massive disaster.

20. The president told the crowd that al-Qaeda wanted to obtain a nuclear bomb and described the prospect of nuclear-armed terrorists as the "most immediate and extreme threat to global security".

21. And for India, the nuclear deal offers access to U. S. technology and virtu-ally free membership in the club of nuclear-armed nations.

22. The largest threat Lashkar poses to Pakistan stems from the chance that another mass attack in India could envelop the country in a war with its nuclear-armed rival.