nuclear missile
Thermonuclear ballistic weapon
A nuclear missile is a missile armed with a nuclear warhead—a weapon that uses nuclear fission or fusion to produce devastating explosive force.
These weapons can be launched from land, submarines, or aircraft and travel intercontinental distances: The treaty limits each nation's nuclear missiles.
The term often appears in discussions of deterrence, arms control, and existential threat.
- fissionNuclear breakup releasing energy
- warheadMunition's explosive section
- deterrencePrevention via threatened consequences
- Manhattan ProjectClandestine atomic weapons program
- plutonium-239Fissile actinide isotope
Hiroshima · rogue state · Nagasaki · ground zero · fusion · critical mass · arms treaty · chain reaction · Cold War · global security · sanctions · preemptive strike · enriched uranium · arms race · doomsday clock · Tsar Bomba · guidance system · red button
- nuclear weaponsatomic bomb, atom bomb, warheads, hydrogen bomb, a-bomb
- MissilesICBM, Pershing, Lance, Hades, submarine-launched
- Soviet MilitaryRed Army, Soviet Navy, Spetsnaz, marshal, marshals
- Superweaponsatomic bomb, hydrogen bomb, neutron bomb, thermonuclear bomb, WMD
nuclear missileconventional weapon
Non-WMD military armament
slingshot · BB gun · peashooter · bow and arrow · club
nuclear missilenuclear disarmament
Reducing atomic weapon stockpiles
olive branch · peace treaty · disarmament · white flag · peace
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