WordNet
n. the warhead of a missile designed to deliver an atom bomb [syn: nuclear warhead, thermonuclear warhead, nuke]
Usage examples of "atomic warhead".
While the refugee Handon stiff squirmed in his iron grip, Noret noted the atomic warhead resting alone next to the torn bodies of the two engineers.
While the refugee Handon still squirmed in his iron grip, Noret noted the atomic warhead resting alone next to the torn bodies of the two engineers.
A decision to use an atomic warhead in a tactical environment must be passed on by those leaders.
It was probably the cruelty of Drax's blow across her face that settled it, but suddenly she knew that somehow it would be a real warhead, an atomic warhead, and that Drax was an enemy of England and that tomorrow at noon he was going to destroy London.
The theft of a Stratocruiser, as Goldfinger had explained it, was preposterous, but no more so than his methods of smuggling gold, his purchase of an atomic warhead.
Anyway, Thursday was the day someone lobbed an atomic warhead at Jerrysport, Mars, and reduced it to rubble.
Many of the attributes claimed for him (i e , that he was prescient, that he survived the explosion of an atomic warhead) are clearly fantastic.
It had an atomic warhead so that, to the watchers below, there was suddenly a new sunjust visible through the clouds.