The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nuclear device \Nu"cle*ar dev"ice\, n. an explosive device, whether used as a weapon or for other purposes, which depends for most of its explosive power on the release of energy from within atomic nuclei. A fission device or a fusion device.
Wikipedia
"Nuclear Device (The Wizard of Aus)" is a 1979 single by British band The Stranglers. The second single from their album The Raven, it peaked at No. 36 on the UK Singles Chart.
Hugh Cornwell stated in Song by Song that the song was written about the then Premier of Queensland, Joh Bjelke-Petersen. It also makes references to gerrymandering, and genetic mutation in animals.
Usage examples of "nuclear device".
This sample proof-of-concept version is a twenty-megaton-yield nuclear device, specially built by me.
It's very tense here, okay, we've had a nuclear device go off in Denver, and this may be the best lead we have.
O'Neal's claim to fame, besides being the only human to ever detonate a nuclear device by hand and survive, was in freeing up the armored forces that had been trapped in a megascraper.
Until we were sure that this was not going to turn into some suicide mission and that your nuclear device had been placed in a fail.
He has to have someone in the vicinity of the lisselmeer to trigger off that damned nuclear device of theirs.
It would not and it would become an actual nuclear device until reassembly, not even be possible to arm it until it was installed in its launch tube on Ice Fortress.