Synonyms for nuclear weapon
nu·cle·ar weapon

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. nuclear weaponnoun

   Synonyms:
   thermonuclear weapon, nuke, atomic weapon

2. nuclear weaponnoun

   A weapon that derives its energy from the nuclear reactions of either fission or fusion.

   Synonyms:
   nuke, atomic weapon, thermonuclear weapon

Princeton's WordNetRate this synonym:0.0 / 0 votes

1. nuclear weapon, atomic weaponnoun

   a weapon of mass destruction whose explosive power derives from a nuclear reaction

   Synonyms:
   atomic weapon

Matched Categories

1. • Weapon Of Mass Destruction

How to pronounce nuclear weapon?

How to say nuclear weapon in sign language?

Words popularity by usage frequency

How to use nuclear weapon in a sentence?

1. State John Kerry:

   The whole reason for Camp David was to bring people together around in an organizational effort to push back against Iran, we have negotiated a nuclear deal for the simple reason that we believe if you are going to push back against Iran, it's better to push back against an Iran without a nuclear weapon than with one.

2. Boris Johnson:

   If they do get a nuclear weapon, you're going to get an arms race in the Middle East, you're going to have the Saudis wanting one, the Egyptians wanting one, the Emiratis. It's already a very, very dangerous state at the moment, we don't want to go down that road. There doesn't seem to me at the moment to be a viable military solution.

3. Mike Pompeo:

   United States are determined to make sure it never possesses a nuclear weapon. The Iran deal in its current form does not provide that assurance, we will continue to work with our European allies to fix that deal. But if a deal can not be reached, the [ United States ] President has said that he will leave that deal.

4. Michele Bachmann:

   I turned to the president and I said, something to the effect of, 'Mr. President, you need to bomb the Iranian nuclear facilities, because if you don't, Iran will have a nuclear weapon on your watch and the course of world history will change,'.

5. Samuel Hickey:

   The JCPOA was blocking all their pathways to a nuclear weapons capability, but one year after President Trump withdrew from the nuclear deal, Iran began incrementally breaching its limits in order to increase its political leverage for future talks, iranians are closer to a nuclear weapon today than they were on the day President Trump was sworn into office.