Warhead
noun
The explosive part at the front of a missile or torpedo.
The missile carries a single nuclear warhead.
Often appears as...
- nuclear warhead
- missile warhead
Usage tips
Technical
noun
The explosive part at the front of a missile or torpedo.
The missile carries a single nuclear warhead.
Often appears as...
- nuclear warhead
- missile warhead
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Military Context
Warhead is commonly used in military and defense language to describe a weapon's destructive part.
During the briefing, they confirmed the warhead was disarmed.
Pro Tip 2/3Destructive Power
A warhead refers to the capability to cause an explosion resulting in significant damage or destruction.
The bunker was designed to withstand the impact of most conventional warheads.
Pro Tip 3/3Weapon Specifications
Warhead is often accompanied by specifications like 'nuclear' or 'conventional' to indicate its type.
The treaty focused on reducing the number of nuclear warheads worldwide.
Pro Tip 1/3Military Context
Warhead is commonly used in military and defense language to describe a weapon's destructive part.
During the briefing, they confirmed the warhead was disarmed.
Pro Tip 2/3Destructive Power
A warhead refers to the capability to cause an explosion resulting in significant damage or destruction.
The bunker was designed to withstand the impact of most conventional warheads.
Pro Tip 3/3Weapon Specifications
Warhead is often accompanied by specifications like 'nuclear' or 'conventional' to indicate its type.
The treaty focused on reducing the number of nuclear warheads worldwide.
Pro Tip 1/3Military Context
Warhead is commonly used in military and defense language to describe a weapon's destructive part.
During the briefing, they confirmed the warhead was disarmed.
Pro Tip 2/3Destructive Power
A warhead refers to the capability to cause an explosion resulting in significant damage or destruction.
The bunker was designed to withstand the impact of most conventional warheads.
Pro Tip 3/3Weapon Specifications
Warhead is often accompanied by specifications like 'nuclear' or 'conventional' to indicate its type.
The treaty focused on reducing the number of nuclear warheads worldwide.
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Video examples
How fear of nuclear...
What we find is the only way we know how to get rid large numbers of nuclear weapons is by using the plutonium in the warheads as fuel in our nuclear power plants. And so, if you are wanting to get the world rid of nuclear weapons, then we're going to need a lot more nuclear power.
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Irwin Redlener: How to...
There are many, many sites where warheads are stored and, in fact, lots of sites where fissionable materials, like highly enriched uranium and plutonium, are absolutely not safe. They're available to be bought, stolen, whatever. They're acquirable, let me put it that way.
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Who won the space race? ...
the same rocket that would be used to launch Sputnik two months later. So, the scary thing about Sputnik was not the orbiting ball itself, but the fact that the same technology could be used to launch a nuclear warhead at any city. Not wanting to fall too far behind,
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Is the weather actually...
of roughly one million nuclear warheads into the atmosphere. This massive surge of energy has already led to a dramatic increase in the number of heatwaves, droughts, and storm surges. So, is the increase in extreme weather due to random chance, or changing climate?
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Mark Forsyth: What's a...
nuclear warheads he has at his disposal and the largest economy in the world and a fleet of drones and all that sort of stuff. Reality and history have endowed that title with grandeur. And so the Senate won in the end. They got their title of respectability.
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Ralph Langner: Cracking...
And I phoned them up and picked their brain in an effort to match their expertise with what we found in code and data. And that worked pretty well. So we were able to associate the small digital warhead with the rotor control.
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Surviving a nuclear...
now in Russia there are many many sites where warheads are stored and in fact lots of sites were fissionable materials like highly enriched uranium and plutonium are absolutely not safe they are available to be bought stolen
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Can we cure genetic...
So about three billion years ago, bacteria evolved a defense mechanism to fight viral infection. That defense mechanism is now better known as CRISPR. And the warhead in CRISPR is this purple protein
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Inside the Doomsday...
could hit any stationary target in the US with multi Megaton nuclear warheads the e4b is capable of refueling in air and flying for extended periods special paint protects it from the thermal
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Nuclear Explosion in the...
the nuclear warhead will detonate high above the Earth's surface and people on the ground will not feel a thing powerful electromagnetic waves destroy electrical circuits
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How fear of nuclear...
What we find is the only way we know how to get rid large numbers of nuclear weapons is by using the plutonium in the warheads as fuel in our nuclear power plants. And so, if you are wanting to get the world rid of nuclear weapons, then we're going to need a lot more nuclear power.
Video examples
Irwin Redlener: How to...
There are many, many sites where warheads are stored and, in fact, lots of sites where fissionable materials, like highly enriched uranium and plutonium, are absolutely not safe. They're available to be bought, stolen, whatever. They're acquirable, let me put it that way.
Video examples
Who won the space race? ...
the same rocket that would be used to launch Sputnik two months later. So, the scary thing about Sputnik was not the orbiting ball itself, but the fact that the same technology could be used to launch a nuclear warhead at any city. Not wanting to fall too far behind,
Video examples
Is the weather actually...
of roughly one million nuclear warheads into the atmosphere. This massive surge of energy has already led to a dramatic increase in the number of heatwaves, droughts, and storm surges. So, is the increase in extreme weather due to random chance, or changing climate?
Video examples
Mark Forsyth: What's a...
nuclear warheads he has at his disposal and the largest economy in the world and a fleet of drones and all that sort of stuff. Reality and history have endowed that title with grandeur. And so the Senate won in the end. They got their title of respectability.
Video examples
Ralph Langner: Cracking...
And I phoned them up and picked their brain in an effort to match their expertise with what we found in code and data. And that worked pretty well. So we were able to associate the small digital warhead with the rotor control.
Video examples
Surviving a nuclear...
now in Russia there are many many sites where warheads are stored and in fact lots of sites were fissionable materials like highly enriched uranium and plutonium are absolutely not safe they are available to be bought stolen
Video examples
Can we cure genetic...
So about three billion years ago, bacteria evolved a defense mechanism to fight viral infection. That defense mechanism is now better known as CRISPR. And the warhead in CRISPR is this purple protein
Video examples
Inside the Doomsday...
could hit any stationary target in the US with multi Megaton nuclear warheads the e4b is capable of refueling in air and flying for extended periods special paint protects it from the thermal
Video examples
Nuclear Explosion in the...
the nuclear warhead will detonate high above the Earth's surface and people on the ground will not feel a thing powerful electromagnetic waves destroy electrical circuits
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Quote examples
Peter Maurer
Swiss Activist
Until the last nuclear weapon is eliminated, more must also be done to reduce the risk of a detonation. Nuclear-armed states should reduce the number of warheads on high alert and be clearer about the actions they are taking to prevent accidents.
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Don Nickles
American Politician
When you look at other countries that are developing the capabilities and the technology to deploy missiles of very significant destructive capability with nuclear, chemical, or biological warheads, then the MAD dogma makes even less sense.
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Barton Gellman
American Journalist
In effect, you cannot stop Iraq from growing nasty bugs in the basement. You can stop them from putting operational warheads on working missiles and launching them at their neighbors.
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Charles Bass
American Politician
Like any good spy novel, the Cox Report alleges that Chinese spies penetrated four U.S. weapons research labs and stole important information on seven nuclear warhead designs.
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Rick Yune
American Actor
I can't understand why anyone would want nuclear warheads. If you shoot them off, it's not like you can take over that country-all you do is kill millions of people.
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Gary Shteyngart
American Writer
That's what I always liked about science fiction - you can make the world end. Humour is my multiple warhead delivery system.
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Sanjaya Baru
Indian Public Servant
Real power in the modern world is determined by a nation's economic capabilities, not just the nuclear warheads it stores.
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Lee H. Hamilton
American Politician
China's ability to deliver nuclear warheads on American cities is expanding.
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Jack Reed
American Politician
The best reduction, the most final reduction, is to destroy the warheads.
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John Travolta
American Actor
You just activated a nuclear warhead, my friend.
Quote examples
Peter Maurer
Swiss Activist
Until the last nuclear weapon is eliminated, more must also be done to reduce the risk of a detonation. Nuclear-armed states should reduce the number of warheads on high alert and be clearer about the actions they are taking to prevent accidents.
Quote examples
Don Nickles
American Politician
When you look at other countries that are developing the capabilities and the technology to deploy missiles of very significant destructive capability with nuclear, chemical, or biological warheads, then the MAD dogma makes even less sense.
Quote examples
Barton Gellman
American Journalist
In effect, you cannot stop Iraq from growing nasty bugs in the basement. You can stop them from putting operational warheads on working missiles and launching them at their neighbors.
Quote examples
Charles Bass
American Politician
Like any good spy novel, the Cox Report alleges that Chinese spies penetrated four U.S. weapons research labs and stole important information on seven nuclear warhead designs.
Quote examples
Rick Yune
American Actor
I can't understand why anyone would want nuclear warheads. If you shoot them off, it's not like you can take over that country-all you do is kill millions of people.
Quote examples
Gary Shteyngart
American Writer
That's what I always liked about science fiction - you can make the world end. Humour is my multiple warhead delivery system.
Quote examples
Sanjaya Baru
Indian Public Servant
Real power in the modern world is determined by a nation's economic capabilities, not just the nuclear warheads it stores.
Quote examples
Lee H. Hamilton
American Politician
China's ability to deliver nuclear warheads on American cities is expanding.
Quote examples
Jack Reed
American Politician
The best reduction, the most final reduction, is to destroy the warheads.
Quote examples
John Travolta
American Actor
You just activated a nuclear warhead, my friend.
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