non-proliferation
- n the prevention of something increasing or spreading (especially the prevention of an increase in the number of countries possessing nuclear weapons)
- By embracing many aspects of Barack Obama's non-proliferation agenda today, John McCain highlighted Obama's leadership on nuclear weapons throughout this campaign, and his .
- India, with its clean non-proliferation record and unilateral moratorium on testing, has nothing to fear, they stress.
- But Iran cannot be expected to give in to United States' bullying and non-proliferation double standards.