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, 19 Oct. 2018
• 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, 16 Apr. 2019
• 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, 7 May 2017
• 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, 9 Apr. 2018
• But the agency must have credible reasons for concern to visit a nonnuclear site and discuss that first with Iran.
  — Laurence Norman, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2018
• The blast was one of the biggest nonnuclear explosions in global history.
  — Kim Ghattas, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2020
• More than 200 people died, thousands were injured and tens of thousands of homes were damaged in what has been ranked as one of the biggest nonnuclear explosions in history.
  — Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2021
• But the United States has a variety of other, smarter options than the B61 in its nuclear and nonnuclear arsenals.
  — Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2022
• Seoul gets back its full nonnuclear weapons sovereignty after long advocating for such a move.
  — Andrew Jeong, WSJ, 11 June 2021
• The agreement does not forbid new sanctions on nonnuclear areas.
  — Laurence Norman, WSJ, 21 July 2017
• The second problem, Geller says, arises because cruise missiles can be armed with nonnuclear warheads.
  — Jason Sherman, Scientific American, 2 June 2022
• Kim has no intention of going nonnuclear alone or going first.
  — Jane Vaynman, Washington Post, 30 June 2018
• 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, 23 Apr. 2018
• No nonnuclear power in the world is nearer to a nuclear capacity than Japan.
  — Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 4 Sep. 2017
• The Navy contracts with private shipyards and other firms for maintenance on nonnuclear surface ships.
  — USA TODAY, 24 Dec. 2019
• The blast was one of the largest nonnuclear explosions ever recorded and was the most destructive single incident in Lebanon’s troubled history.
  — Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2021
• There are plenty of nonnuclear options available — such as launching airstrikes to try to take out an adversary’s nuclear arsenal.
  — Alex Ward, Vox, 19 Oct. 2018
• And nuclear escalation would be likely, because the U.S. is far superior to Russia in terms of nonnuclear forces.
  — Jeffrey Fields, The Conversation, 4 Apr. 2022
• Last month, Belarus approved a referendum abandoning the country’s status as a nonnuclear state.
  — Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2022
• American officials said Europe has recently begun to move on some of the other, nonnuclear, issues of concern in Washington.
  — Felicia Schwartz, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2018
• Some interpret the pledge as something more than the assurances nuclear-armed states routinely provide nonnuclear ones—one that under some scenarios could pit Beijing against Moscow.
  — Lingling Wei and James T. Areddy, WSJ, 16 Mar. 2022
• 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, 15 May 2017
• Those consequences, though, would almost certainly be nonnuclear, officials said — a sharp contrast to the kind of threats of nuclear escalation that Washington and Moscow pursued during the Cold War.
  — New York Times, 1 June 2022
• Australia notes that the Non-Proliferation Treaty does not bar a nonnuclear weapon state from acquiring naval nuclear propulsion technology.
  — Christian Shepherd, Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2023
• 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, 20 Dec. 2020
• That’s a serious accident, but other nonnuclear industrial accidents have been worse.
  — Joshua S. Goldstein and, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2019
• Of particular note, diplomats say, any delay in granting inspectors access to nuclear or nonnuclear sites or modest expansion of Iran’s uranium production or nuclear research and development.
  — Laurence Norman, WSJ, 9 May 2018
• October 1997President Bill Clinton certifies that China is not exporting nuclear technology to nonnuclear nations.
  — Richard Stone, Science | AAAS, 31 Aug. 2017

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