WordNet
n. 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) [syn: atom bomb, atomic bomb, A-bomb, fission bomb]
Usage examples of "plutonium bomb".
Using a home-made plutonium bomb made out of materials hijacked from the breeder reactor at Carmarthen, Welsh nationalists had blown up the Hyde Park Barracks and most of Knightsbridge.
They've learned it, thanks to our people on Niflheim, and unless my estimate is entirely wrong, King Orgzild already has at least one First-Century Nagasaki-type plutonium bomb.
Confirmed gamma flash characteristic of secondary emissions from a plutonium bomb airburst.
Nishina does not think you can tell him any more of use in his plutonium bomb project, so the naval aviators will resume their questioning of you.
The Japanese War Crimes Trials were infected by the same racist assumptions of subhumanity as had condoned the dropping of a uranium bomb on a defeated nation already suing for peace, and the subsequent dropping of a larger plutonium bomb for reasons of scientific curiosity.
None had come any closer to the Authority complex than the top of the mountain, not even the African fanatics with their stolen plutonium bomb.
The plutonium bomb resulted in an explosion equal to 20, 000 tons of TNT.
The homemade plutonium bomb had gone off prematurely while still in the cargo hold of an Italian passenger liner.
They are the sort of thing that in Hollywood thrillers is used as a McGuffin: the plutonium bomb core, the top-secret blueprints, the suitcase of bearer bonds, the reel of microfilm.