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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kydedhed, post: 1584900, member: 30800&quot;]well actually, nuclear as a word was first coined in 1846</p><p>&quot;1846, &#039;of or like the nucleus of a cell&#039; from <a href="http://www.cointalk.com/index.php?term=nucleus&amp;allowed_in_frame=0" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/index.php?term=nucleus&amp;allowed_in_frame=0">nucleus</a> + <a href="http://www.cointalk.com/index.php?term=-ar&amp;allowed_in_frame=0" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/index.php?term=-ar&amp;allowed_in_frame=0">-ar</a>, probably by influence of Fr. nucléaire. Use in atomic physics is from 1914; of weapons, from 1945. Hence nuclear physics (1933), nuclear energy (1941), nuclear war (1954). Nuclear winter coined by Richard Turco, but first attested in article by Carl Sagan in &quot;Parade&quot; magazine, Oct. 30, 1983. General sense of &quot;central&quot; is from 1912. Nuclear family, originally a sociologists&#039; term, is first attested 1949 in &quot;Social Structure,&quot; by American anthropologist G.P. Murdock (1897-1985). Alternative adjective nucleal is recorded from 1840&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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