What is "nuclear warhead"

Usage examples of "nuclear warhead".

We might be able to intercept a fraction of them with our borrowed American Patriot antiaircraft missile batteries, but even one nuclear warhead allowed to hit the capital would kill hundreds of thousands of our citizens.

It looked real enough too, although he had never seen a live nuclear warhead before.

The new ones were lighter -- therefore able to carry a heavier and more powerful nuclear warhead -- and made from material like the tiles on the space shuttle.

They don't know we might be able to prevent their nuclear warhead from going off.

In ten minutes a hundred missiles, each carrying about a ton of high explosives-or a nuclear warhead-would start falling.

We believe in what we want the truth to be, ignoring the evidence that would raise doubts, deceiving ourselves, and Dieter Klaus desperately wanted the truth to be that I was a bona fide arms dealer and could provide him with a Miniver NK-9 nuclear warhead.

More got in behind the squad, firing into its rear, and men and women who'd survived the fury of a nuclear warhead died as armor-piercing rounds riddled their zoots.

The shock of seven one-gram pellets of fusing hydrogen plasma accelerated by magnetic induction to a fair percentage of the speed of light jolts me like the near brush of a nuclear warhead.

One of those missiles had gotten too close, and armor that would have sneered at a nuclear warhead tore like tissue under the fraction of power that leaked through the inner shield.

While a nuclear warhead and its missile were expensive gad] gets, they were far cheaper than the equivalent destructive?

When the satellite approached the missiles, Ice Fortress would detonate the nuclear warhead within the satellite.