Nuclear stonewalling

Nuclear stonewalling is a diplomacy and foreign policy concept and an idiom encountered in mass media publications.
Diplomacy
Foreign policy
Etymology
The idiom consists of the juxtaposed words "nuclear" (as pertaining to a 'core', Latin 'nucleus') and "stonewalling" (present participle of the verb 'to stonewall', itself derived from the noun 'stonewall').
Examples
The Moscow Times has used the term in 1992 when it described a Russian accusation against Ukraine as "nuclear stonewalling" by Kiev.
The term has/is also (been) used by the United States in its relation with Iran.
A 2006 Council on Foreign Relations publication on Iran uses the noun "nuclear stonewall" in its title, juxtaposing it after "Iran's", the possessive of "Iran".
It was used in 2012 by Reuters to describe a United States accusation against the state of Syria. Later on the day of publication Reuters changed the article's title to "U.S.: Syria must end nuclear go-slow, conflict no excuse."

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