nonnuclear

[ non-noo-klee-er, -nyoo- or, by metathesis, -kyuh-ler ]

adjective
  1. not utilizing nuclear power, nuclear weapons, etc.: to fight a nonnuclear war.

Origin of nonnuclear

1
First recorded in 1950–55; non- + nuclear

pronunciation note For nonnuclear

See nuclear.

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British Dictionary definitions for non-nuclear

non-nuclear

adjective
  1. not of, concerned with, or operated by energy from fission or fusion of atomic nuclei: non-nuclear weapons

  2. not involving, concerned with, or possessing nuclear weapons: non-nuclear states

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