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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The part of a projectile weapon, such as a missile or torpedo, that contains the explosive or damaging material, such as a nuclear bomb or a chemical agent.
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- noun The part of a
missile ,projectile ,torpedo ,rocket , or othermunition which contains either thenuclear or thermonuclear system,high explosive system,chemical orbiological agents , or inert materials intended toinflict damage .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the front part of a guided missile or rocket or torpedo that carries the nuclear or explosive charge or the chemical or biological agents
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In this cold! what they call a warhead, urea nitrate fuse fashioned from a NAIL, striking a BULLET casing, om my gawd, so wonder they can fire off 1000 and kill 2 ppl, the 2 ppl likely died of old age,
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In this cold! what they call a warhead, urea nitrate fuse fashioned from a NAIL, striking a BULLET casing,
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The Obama administration protested that the program should fund rockets, too, as a warhead is useless without a delivery mechanism.
I thought about doing an April Fool’s Day post… | RedState 2010
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Although RN ships where lost in the Falklands conflict, the warhead is so sml on the exocet, its not immediate and if you have a look at the ships which where sunk they were neither equipped for the roll, or placed in the right spot or where due for upgrades which had to be postponed when the conflict started.
Cheeseburger Gothic » Anyone been following the build up to next falklands war? 2010
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As an Iranian government minister, are you willing to be responsible for the millions and millions of deaths that sending one nuclear warhead is going to lead to?
The BIG Lie JDsg 2007
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The decision to use nuclear weapons, regardless of the size of the warhead, is always a political one.
Remember the new logo that replaced the old Civil Defense one? edgreen86 2007
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The physicists who had developed these devices understood the potential for miniaturization and a simultaneous escalation in warhead yields, past the twenty-two kilotons of Nagasaki and indeed past a thousand kilotons, into the multimegaton range — the realm, when multiplied, of global suicide.
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The physicists who had developed these devices understood the potential for miniaturization and a simultaneous escalation in warhead yields, past the twenty-two kilotons of Nagasaki and indeed past a thousand kilotons, into the multimegaton range — the realm, when multiplied, of global suicide.
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