Hastened end of war with a nuke (3)

I believe the answer is:

ran

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'hastened' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'end of war with a nuke' is the wordplay.
'end of' suggests the final letters.
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'nuke' becomes 'n' (this might be a standard abbreviation which I don't know about).
The final letter of 'war' is 'r'.
'r'+'a'+'n'='RAN'

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(Other definitions for ran that I've seen before include "Hastened" , "Was candidate" , "Managed; raced" , "Took a single" , "Took to one's heels" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.

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