nuclear weapon
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1. a weapon of mass destruction whose explosive power derives from a nuclear reaction (noun.artifact)
| hypernym | : | w.m.d., weapon of mass destruction, wmd, |
| definition | : | a weapon that kills or injures civilian as well as military personnel (nuclear and chemical and biological weapons) (noun.artifact) |
| hyponym | : | a-bomb, atom bomb, atomic bomb, fission bomb, plutonium bomb, |
| definition | : | a nuclear weapon in which enormous energy is released by nuclear fission (splitting the nuclei of a heavy element like uranium 235 or plutonium 239) (noun.artifact) |
| hyponym | : | fusion bomb, h-bomb, hydrogen bomb, thermonuclear bomb, |
| definition | : | a nuclear weapon that releases atomic energy by union of light (hydrogen) nuclei at high temperatures to form helium (noun.artifact) |
| hyponym | : | megaton bomb, |
| definition | : | a nuclear weapon with an explosive power equivalent to one million tons of TNT (noun.artifact) |
| part holonym | : | atomic warhead, nuclear warhead, nuke, thermonuclear warhead, |
| definition | : | the warhead of a missile designed to deliver an atom bomb (noun.artifact) |
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