WordNet
n. the warhead of a missile designed to deliver an atom bomb [syn: atomic warhead, nuclear warhead, nuke]
Usage examples of "thermonuclear warhead".
It has transsonic speed, inertial and terrain-comparison guidance with active terminalradar homing, and it can carry an eleven hundred kilogram conventional high-explosive warhead or a five hundred kiloton thermonuclear warhead over three thousand kilometers to its target with high accuracy.
A tank, caught by several bolts and a thermonuclear warhead simultaneously, exploded.
A firestorm is raging across this part of the city, as intense as the pyrotechnic destruction loosed by an exploding thermonuclear warhead.
Past experience indicated that no known energy weapon short of a thermonuclear warhead or a dreadnought-class laser was effective.
Behind them the modified Hawk would be doing the same thing as the mines--firing a one-megaton thermonuclear warhead to generate a spike of laser energy of enormous power.
The more recent was about twelve hundred years ago, and it was done with a thermonuclear warhead, arriving at relativistic speed to overload the palace shielding.
Past experience indicated that no known energy weapon short of a thermonuclear warhead or a dreadnought class laser was effective.
Edelstein could do more, Willie knew, with a briefcase than Al Capone with a thermonuclear warhead.