radiological warfare

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radiological warfare [¦rād·ē·ə¦läj·ə·kəl ′wȯr‚fer]

(ordnance)

The employment of agents or weapons to produce residual radioactive contamination, as distinguished from the initial effects of a nuclear explosion (blast, thermal, and initial nuclear radiation).

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