nuclear payload
Bomb's fissile core
A nuclear payload is the nuclear warhead or warheads carried by a missile, aircraft, or other delivery system.
The term emphasizes the weapon as cargo—what the vehicle delivers to its target.
Payload may refer to a single warhead or multiple warheads on one missile: The ICBM carried a nuclear payload of ten independently targeted warheads.
- warheadMunition's explosive section
- missileSelf-guided airborne weapon
- bombExplosive device or disaster
- atomicOf elemental particles
- hydrogenSimplest atomic element
thermonuclear · megaton · kiloton · yield · detonation · ICBM · launcher · silo · arming · first strike · fissile · weapons grade · plutonium · uranium · chain reaction · fallout · mushroom cloud · blast
- nuclear weaponsatomic bomb, atom bomb, warheads, hydrogen bomb, a-bomb
nuclear payloadhumanitarian aid
Crisis relief for sufferers
relief supplies · blank round · research equipment · communications satellite · weather instruments
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