atomphobia
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editatomphobia (uncountable)
- (rare) The fear of or aversion to the use of nuclear power or nuclear weapons.
- 1947 September 27, Richard R. Werry, “An American Beginning for International Education”, in School and Society, volume 66, number 1709, Lancaster, Pa.: The Society for the Advancement of Education, Inc., page 238:
- We are becoming as a nation, as a world, indeed, atom-conscious. Many of us are already afflicted with atomphobia, though so far it has manifested itself only in a mirage of autoaeromotive discs and a war of words between chronic optimists and empirical pessimists concerning civilization’s probable future.
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editfear of or aversion to the use of nuclear power or nuclear weapons
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