Meanings
alternative atomophobia
- rareuncountableThe fear of or aversion to the use of nuclear power or nuclear weapons.
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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.
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
Origin
Translations
German Atomphobie
- Atomphobiefear of or aversion to the use of nuclear power or nuclear weapons
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