anti-nuclear

Opposing atomic power

Anti-nuclear means opposed to nuclear weapons or nuclear power.

The term describes activists, movements, and policies aimed at preventing nuclear proliferation or phasing out nuclear energy: anti-nuclear protesters gathered outside the power plant, The country adopted an anti-nuclear stance after the disaster.

Sometimes hyphenated, sometimes not.

weapons

disarmament

Reducing or eliminating weapons

nonproliferationRestricting weapons dissemination
HiroshimaFirst nuclear-struck city
NagasakiSecond city bombed atomically

atomic · warheads · arsenal · deterrence · treaties · fallout · mushroom cloud · arms race · test ban · denuclearization

activism

protest

Public expression of disapproval

demonstrationPublic display of opinion
marchRhythmic group walk
campaignOrganized effort toward goal

petition · blockade · civil disobedience · grassroots · movement · rally · banner · sit-in · advocacy · organizers

energy

reactor

Controlled fission apparatus

ChernobylSoviet nuclear disaster site
FukushimaJapanese nuclear accident site
Three Mile IslandPennsylvania nuclear disaster site

meltdown · uranium · plutonium · radioactive waste · decommissioning · safety · contamination · cooling towers · fission · renewable

Categories

environmentalismecology, conservationism, recycling bins, campaigner, environmentalism
70s Activismantiwar movement, Black Power, boycotts, Cesar Chavez, consciousness raising
movementsmove, step, turn, shift, slide
Cold WarBerlin Wall, Iron Curtain, arms race, Warsaw Pact, Cuban Missile Crisis
denialismclimate denial, Holocaust denial, vaccine denial, denialism, pseudoscience

Opposites

stance on nuclear technology

anti-nuclearpro-nuclear

Favoring nuclear energy

nuclear weapons policy

anti-nuclearDr. Strangelove

Family

anti, nuclear, antis, nucleus, nuclei, nucleic, nucleate, nucleotide, nucleotides

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