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 Translation for 'nuclear warhead' from English to French
NOUN   a nuclear warhead | nuclear warheads
SYNO atomic warhead | nuclear warhead | nuke | ...
armesmil.
ogive {f} nucléaire
nuclear warhead
5+ Words
armesnucl.
fusée {f} à tête nucléaire
rocket with a nuclear warhead
Partial Matches
armesmil.
ogive {f} nucléaire
atomic warhead
nucl.
nucléaire {adj}
nuclear
phys.
transmutation {f} nucléaire
nuclear transmutation
nucl.
technologie {f} nucléaire
nuclear technology
nucl.
fusion {f} nucléaire
nuclear fusion
méd.nucl.occup.
médecin {m} nucléaire
nuclear physician
nucl.pol.
puissance {f} nucléaire
nuclear power
mil.nucl.
guerre {f} nucléaire
nuclear war
armesnucl.
arme {f} nucléaire
nuclear weapon
armesmil.nucl.
atomisation {f} [destruction]
nuclear annihilation
chim.nucl.occup.
chimiste {m} nucléaire
nuclear chemist
phys.
désintégration {f} radioactive
nuclear disintegration
phys.
désintégration {f} radioactive
nuclear decay
mil.
frappe {f} nucléaire
nuclear strike
phys.
décroissance {f} radioactive
nuclear disintegration
phys.
décroissance {f} radioactive
nuclear decay
nucl.
expérience {f} nucléaire
nuclear testing
méd.sci.
médecine {f} nucléaire
nuclear medicine
sociol.
famille {f} nucléaire
nuclear family
armesmil.nucl.
force {f} de frappe [arme nucléaire]
nuclear weapons {pl}
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Usage Examples English
  • The Thor missile was carrying one pod, two re-entry vehicles and the W50 nuclear warhead.
  • He further argued that even if effective against missiles with conventional, chemical or biological warheads, the Arrow would not be relevant against future threats of missiles with nuclear warheads, since it would never be able to supply hermetic defense and the impact of even a single nuclear warhead in Israel's densely populated urban area would be an existential threat to Israel.
  • The quartz material 'hardens' the ReB protecting the nuclear warhead against high-energy neutrons emitted by exo-atmospheric Anti-ballistic missile (ABM) bursts before re-entry.
  • A depth charge fitted with a nuclear warhead is also known as a "nuclear depth bomb".
  • The Titan II near Potwin likely contained a 9 megaton W-53 nuclear warhead.

  • range missile that might at some future date carry a nuclear warhead.
  • Payloads usually consist of a conventional warhead or a nuclear warhead.
  • ] nuclear warhead out of the silo. It landed harmlessly several hundred feet away.
  • Modern variants usually deliver multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles (MIRVs), each of which carries a nuclear warhead and allows a single launched missile to strike several targets.
  • In 1958, the two worked on the classified military Project A119, a secret Air Force plan to detonate a nuclear warhead on the Moon.

  • Subcontractors included the Sperry Gyroscope Company who produced the missile guidance system whilst the nuclear warhead was designed by the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston.
  • This warhead required numerous innovations to fit a nuclear warhead into the relatively small confines of the missile nosecone.
  • Each rocket was to be fitted with a single 100-megaton nuclear warhead as well as a modified Apollo Service Module and uncrewed Apollo Command Module for guidance to the target.
  • A subvariant of the Sparrow I armed with the same nuclear warhead as the MB-1 Genie was proposed in 1958 but was cancelled shortly thereafter.
  • Work on its W47 nuclear warhead began in 1957 at the facility that is now called the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory by a team headed by John Foster and Harold Brown.

  • It was the W33 nuclear warhead for use in an [...] artillery shell.
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