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Definitions of nuclear weapon
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  • u a heavy toxic silvery-white radioactive metallic element; occurs in many isotopes; used for nuclear fuels and nuclear weapons
  • soft not protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons)
  • salt negotiations between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics opened in 1969 in Helsinki designed to limit both countries' stock of nuclear weapons
  • bikini an atoll in the Marshall Islands; formerly used by the United States as a site for testing nuclear weapons
  • uranium a heavy toxic silvery-white radioactive metallic element; occurs in many isotopes; used for nuclear fuels and nuclear weapons
  • hardened protected against attack (especially by nuclear weapons)
  • szilard United States physicist and molecular biologist who helped develop the first atom bomb and later opposed the use of all nuclear weapons (1898-1964)
  • overkill the capability to obliterate a target with more weapons (especially nuclear weapons) than are required
  • harriman United States financier who negotiated a treaty with the Soviet Union banning tests of nuclear weapons (1891-1986)
  • thermonuclear using nuclear weapons based on fusion as distinguished from fission
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