prenuclear

And he was deeply worried about its implications for a people in possession of even the prenuclear version of weapons of mass destruction:

MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION Gary Greenberg 2010

The cataclysmic upshot of this citing of “natural” and “unnatural” as ethical standards was European Fascism, which, in touting nature and natural man yet deploying the most destructive prenuclear technology in history, set up life-and-death categories.

The Metamorphosis, in The Penal Colony,and Other Stories Franz Kafka 2000

I am not referring to total disarmament, since I do not believe that we can disinvent nuclear weapons to such a degree that we can return to the barbarism of the prenuclear era, in which we slaughtered millions in nonnuclear conflicts.

A Scientist and the World He Lives In 1986

In the wars of the prenuclear age, which ended with the bomb on Hiroshima, a victorious power was an organized state which could impose its terms on the vanquished.

Cuba and the Nuclear Risk 1969

In the wars of the prenuclear age, which ended with the bomb on Hiroshima, a victorious power was an organized state which could impose its terms on the vanquished.

Cuba and the Nuclear Risk 1963