weapons grade
Fit for warheads
Weapons grade describes material refined to the purity or concentration required for nuclear weapons—typically uranium enriched to 90% or higher.
The term extends figuratively to anything of extreme potency or quality: weapons-grade stupidity, weapons-grade coffee.
The hyperbolic use suggests something so intense it could be dangerous.
- plutoniumActinide, atomic number 94
- uraniumElement ninety-two
- enrichedMade more valuable
- nuclearOf atomic energy
- nuclear warheadFission-based explosive device
fissile · warhead · centrifuge · isotope · reactor · refined · military · stockpile · classified · lethal · potent · yellowcake · bomb · arsenal · critical mass · dirty bomb · payload · detonation
- nuclear securitynon-proliferation, nonproliferation, nuclear facility, nuclear site, uranium enrichment
- uranium enrichmenturanium enrichment, enriched uranium, centrifuge, cascade, depleted uranium
- radioactive materialsuranium, plutonium, radium, thorium, radon
- nuclear weaponsatomic bomb, atom bomb, warheads, hydrogen bomb, a-bomb
purity/enrichment level
weapons gradedepleted
Severely reduced or emptied
unenriched · low-grade · watered-down · diluted · weak
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