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
• Kim has no intention of going nonnuclear alone or going first.
  — Jane Vaynman, Washington Post, 30 June 2018
• 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 blast was one of the biggest nonnuclear explosions in global history.
  — Kim Ghattas, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2020
• 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 second problem, Geller says, arises because cruise missiles can be armed with nonnuclear warheads.
  — Jason Sherman, Scientific American, 2 June 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Last month, Belarus approved a referendum abandoning the country’s status as a nonnuclear state.
  — Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2022
• 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
• 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
• That’s a serious accident, but other nonnuclear industrial accidents have been worse.
  — Joshua S. Goldstein and, WSJ, 11 Jan. 2019
• 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
• 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
• Australia notes that the Non-Proliferation Treaty does not bar a nonnuclear weapon state from acquiring naval nuclear propulsion technology.
  — Ellen Nakashima and Christian Shepherd, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Feb. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• October 1997President Bill Clinton certifies that China is not exporting nuclear technology to nonnuclear nations.
  — Richard Stone, Science | AAAS, 31 Aug. 2017