nucleomitophobia

Meaning

Noun

Fear of nuclear radiation, especially atomic bombs.

Origin

Coined by psychiatrist Milton Arnold Dushkin in the early 1960s, from nucleo- + mito- + --phobia, in reference to a supposed resemblance of atomic fission to cellular division.

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