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nuclear warhead [′nü·klē·ər ′wȯr‚hed] (ordnance) A warhead that contains fissionable or fissionable-fusionable material. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| The rip-roaring climax puts readers in the situation room as President James "Mac" MacPherson races against time to take out an Iraqi ICBM fitted with a nuclear warhead, finally deciding to pre-emptively nuke Baghdad and Tikrit to remove the threat. Dropped from afar, the bunker buster allegedly drills toward its underground target where its smallish nuclear warhead detonates with devastating effect on the enemy below the surface. On the issue of strategic stability, in the past few years Russia and the United States have signed a number of bilateral treaties on the reduction of strategic offensive weapons, including the 2002 Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty, reducing the number of nuclear warheads to 1,700 to 2,200 by the year 2012. |
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