How to Use nonnuclear in a Sentence

nonnuclear

adjective
  • Worries over nuclear weapons have led many to push for a nonnuclear world.
    — Alex Ward, Vox, 2018-10-19
  • The blast was one of the biggest nonnuclear explosions in global history.
    — Kim Ghattas, The Atlantic, 2020-11-01
  • But the agency must have credible reasons for concern to visit a nonnuclear site and discuss that first with Iran.
    — Laurence Norman, WSJ, 2018-10-02
  • The second problem, Geller says, arises because cruise missiles can be armed with nonnuclear warheads.
    — Jason Sherman, Scientific American, 2022-06-02
  • But there is an animating concept in this home, an echo of the theme that has powered Star’s shows: the idea of the nonnuclear family as a circle.
    — Jesse Kornbluth, ELLE Decor, 2019-04-16
  • The Navy contracts with private shipyards and other firms for maintenance on nonnuclear surface ships.
    — USA TODAY, 2019-12-24
  • Let none of the congregation forget that this was the same man who, shortly after taking office, dropped the largest nonnuclear bomb on Afghanistan.
    — Stephen A. Crockett Jr., The Root, 2018-04-09
  • Last month, the United States dropped its largest nonnuclear device on a network of caves and tunnels used by the group in Nangahar, killing 94 fighters.
    — Washington Post, 2017-05-07
  • And nuclear escalation would be likely, because the U.S. is far superior to Russia in terms of nonnuclear forces.
    — Jeffrey Fields, The Conversation, 2022-04-04
  • In fact, across the entire world in the case of a super storm, a solar super storm, the EMP can be made by nature, by the sun, by a solar super storm or it can be made by man via nuclear weapon and it can be made by nonnuclear weapons as well.
    — Fox News, 2018-04-23
  • Trump and earlier presidents also imposed sanctions on Iran over nonnuclear issues, including its ballistic missile program, its support for terrorist groups and human rights abuses.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2020-12-20
  • Many are concerned that the Trump administration could penalize big international banks that choose to do business in Iran, if they are deemed to violate nonnuclear American sanctions still in force against the country.
    — Thomas Erdbrink, New York Times, 2017-05-15
  • October 1997President Bill Clinton certifies that China is not exporting nuclear technology to nonnuclear nations.
    — Richard Stone, Science | AAAS, 2017-08-31

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