atomic ammunition
atomic ammunition
[ə′täm·ik ‚am·yə′nish·ən] (ordnance)
Formerly, ammunition deriving its explosive force from nuclear fission; now, all ammunition which derives its explosive force from a chain reaction of active nuclear material.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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AIMPOINT, INC., 7309 Gateway Ct., Manassas, VA 20109, (877) 246-7646), www.aimpoint.com,
ATOMIC AMMUNITION, (623) 580-8888, www.atomicammo.
As so often happens, after I had finished this article and turned it in, some new .45 ACP ammunition from
Atomic Ammunition arrived in the form of 185-grain +P bonded JHPs.
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