nuclear bomb

I

(Roget's IV) n.

Syn. nuclear armament, nuclear warhead, nuclear device, hydrogen bomb, H-bomb, atomic bomb, A-bomb, neutron bomb, cobalt bomb, C-bomb, atomic weapon, nuclear weapon, thermonuclear device, thermonuclear weapon; see also arms 1 .

II

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.

atomic bomb, A-bomb, hydrogen bomb, H-bomb, thermonuclear bomb, fission bomb, nuclear warhead, neutron bomb, megaton weapon, kiloton weapon, *nuke, *the big one, *physics package, *peacekeeper.

WORD FIND

• absorption of radioactive material after blast: contamination

• billowing cloud after blast: mushroom

• cloud blast effect that causes damaging electrical surges: electromagnetic pulse

• bomb portion of missile: warhead

• bomb with blast yield equivalent of millions of tons of TNT: megaton weapon

• bomb with blast yield equivalent of thousands of tons of TNT: kiloton weapon

• fiery side effect of blast: firestorm

• illness from fallout: radiation sickness

• kills people, leaves buildings intact: neutron bomb

• location of detonation at, below or above ground: ground zero

• minimum fissionable material necessary for chain reaction: critical mass

• penetrate deep underground, able to: earth penetrator

• precipitation of radioactive material: fallout, rainout

• splitting of atom: fission

• spreads radiation only, low-cost, low-tech bomb that: dirty bomb

• unit of radiation: rem

• weapon with augmented radiation properties: salted weapon

see explosion, missile, nuclear fission, nuclear fusion