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  • adjective After the discovery of nuclear energy.
  • adjective After a nuclear war.

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post- +‎ nuclear

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Examples

  • Stanley Kubrick's quintessential Cold War comedy is also one of the savvier movies, period, about politics in the postnuclear era.

    'Salt': Fun, if Not Quite a Meal 2010

  • It took a nine-day, stress-induced coma in 1984 -- chronicled in Blakely's powerful first book, "" Wake Me When It's Over '' -- to convince her postnuclear family that no one can meet that ideal, that it's good enough to be a Good-Enough Mother.

    As American As Blaming Mother 2008

  • Apart from such scientifically plausible, postnuclear holocaust accidents as mutated people, shouldn't we eschew monsters from now on if, by the term, anything is meant except biological humans whose warped minds perpetrate monstrosities?

    Atheism and Supernatural Horror, Part I 2005

  • Apart from such scientifically plausible, postnuclear holocaust accidents as mutated people, shouldn't we eschew monsters from now on if, by the term, anything is meant except biological humans whose warped minds perpetrate monstrosities?

    Archive 2005-09-25 2005

  • While some of Germany's neighbors, like nuclear-dependent France, home to the giant contractor Areva, criticize Mrs. Merkel for what they call an exaggerated, knee-jerk reaction, Germans seem determined to move toward a postnuclear economy - even though they acknowledge the switch will be expensive.

    NYT > Global Home By JUDY DEMPSEY 2011

  • As the country with the largest military - industrial complex, the US would benefit the most from the transition to a postnuclear world.

    Christian Science Monitor | All Stories 2010

  • (B) M17 neuroblastoma cells stably transduced with control shRNA or PINK1 shRNA and transfected with YFP-Parkin were treated with DMSO or 10 µM CCCP for 3 h and fractionated into postnuclear supernatant (PNS), mitochondria-rich heavy membrane fraction (HMF), and supernatant (Sup).

    PLoS Biology: New Articles Derek P. Narendra et al. 2010

  • To boost arguments in Bethesda lawsuit, Interplay releases concept shots for its Masthead-developed postnuclear role-playing game.

    GameSpot's News, Screenshots, Movies, Reviews, Previews, Downloads, and Features 2010

  • The postnuclear cytoplasmic extract was centrifuged at 200,000

    Naturejobs - All Jobs Arabinda Nayak 2010

  • A nonnuclear environment will favor the technologically advanced, since postnuclear systems are more sophisticated.

    Christian Science Monitor | All Stories 2010

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