What is the fear of nukes called?

Nucleomituphobia is the fear of nuclear weapons. Patients with this phobia would prepare a bomb shelter and feel very worry that a person would be obliterated by a nuclear bomb. Most sufferers would also worry that a nuclear war may start at any time that would lead to global apocalypse.

Are nukes a threat?

Nuclear weapons are the most dangerous weapons on earth. One can destroy a whole city, potentially killing millions, and jeopardizing the natural environment and lives of future generations through its long-term catastrophic effects. The dangers from such weapons arise from their very existence.

What is Hippophobia?

Hippophobia: An abnormal and persistent fear of horses. Sufferers of this fear experience undue anxiety even when a horse is known to be gentle and well trained. They usually avoid horses entirely rather than risk being kicked, bitten or thrown. They may also fear other hoofed animals such as ponies, donkeys and mules.

What is the weirdest phobia?

Here are some of the strangest phobias one can have

Ergophobia. It is the fear of work or the workplace.
Somniphobia. Also known as hypnophobia, it is the fear of falling asleep.
Chaetophobia.
Oikophobia.
Panphobia.
Ablutophobia.

What is the rarest phobia?

Rare and Uncommon Phobias

Chirophobia | Fear of hands.
Chloephobia | Fear of newspapers.
Globophobia (Fear of balloons)
Omphalophobia | Fear of Umbilicus (Bello Buttons)
Optophobia | Fear of opening your eyes.
Nomophobia | Fear of not having your cell phone.
Pogonophobia | Fear of facial hair.
Turophobia | Fear of cheese.

Why are we so afraid of nuclear energy?

Although Weart does not describe it as a meme, fear of radiation is an obvious candidate. Weart traces how the fear of nuclear is much more complicated and much older than nuclear weapons or nuclear energy, starting from the beginning of technology and modern science itself in the late 1800s.

How did the fear of nuclear weapons lead to the Space Race?

Then, in the fall of 1957 the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the satellite that amazed us, but in the context of the Cold War also frightened us to realize that missiles could deliver nuclear holocaust literally in minutes. Heightened nuclear fear produced ‘the space race’, one outcome of which was man landing on the moon.

How did people learn to fear the nuclear bomb?

The public clamored for radium-painted watch dials that glowed in the dark. You could buy radioactive mouthwash and toothpaste and skin creams. Radiation was even seen as the Philosopher’s Stone, the legendary material the alchemists had sought that would give man control over matter.

How did the fear of nuclear weapons affect the Cold War?

So it’s not surprising how far reaching and long lasting the effects of those Cold War fears have been. Fear of atomic weapons and nuclear fallout helped carve the dread of cancer deep into our hearts, and they put a man on the moon. They helped launch environmentalism, and laid the foundations for the anti-Vietnam war movement.