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Uncooperative individual fires nuke off (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

refusenik

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'uncooperative individual' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't tell whether it can be defined by this definition.

'fires nuke off' is the wordplay.
'off' is an anagram indicator.
'fires'+'nuke'='firesnuke'
'firesnuke' anagrammed gives 'REFUSENIK'.

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(Other definitions for refusenik that I've seen before include "who refuses to cooperate" , "Protester" , "Soviet dissident" .)

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