non-nuclear
Britishadjective
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not of, concerned with, or operated by energy from fission or fusion of atomic nuclei
non-nuclear weapons
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not involving, concerned with, or possessing nuclear weapons
non-nuclear states
Example Sentences
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Around the world, any number of U.S. allies are also questioning their non-nuclear status.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 4, 2025
Kyiv would also have to commit to being a "non-nuclear state".
From BBC • Nov. 21, 2025
Nuclear testing was replaced by non-nuclear and subcritical experiments using advanced computer simulations.
From Barron's • Oct. 30, 2025
More recently, programs like the Source Physics Experiment looked at a range of non-nuclear chemical explosions in different rock environments, collecting data to learn more about explosion physics.
From Science Daily • May 2, 2024
In the same period, there was a burgeoning international trade in the devastating non-nuclear weapons coyly called “conventional.”
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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