atomophobia

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English

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Etymology

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From atom +‎ -o- +‎ -phobia.

Noun

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atomophobia (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of atomphobia.
    • 1993, Alexander K. Kislov, “Political Aspects of Minimizing the Risk of Accidental Nuclear War” (chapter 14), in Håkan Wiberg, Ib Damgaard Petersen, Paul Smoker, editors, Inadvertent Nuclear War: The Implications of the Changing Global Order, Oxford: Pergamon Press, →ISBN, page 240:
      The global community, and the political and social leaders of the countries of different orientations, must develop a sort of ‘atomophobia,’ a psychological aversion to nuclear weapons, their possession, their use or the threat of it, in warfare or as an instrument of policy.