Synonyms for warhead
ˈwɔrˌhɛdwar·head

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1. warhead, payload, loadnoun

   the front part of a guided missile or rocket or torpedo that carries the nuclear or explosive charge or the chemical or biological agents

   Synonyms:
   burden, incumbrance, onus, cargo, lading, loading, freight, encumbrance, consignment, payload, shipment, load, lode

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1. • Explosive

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1. List of paraphrases for "warhead":

   warheads, nuke

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1. Vincent Brooks:

   Given the amount of time and resources the regime devotes to nuclear and missile programs, we must assume North Korea has the technical capability to mount and deliver a nuclear warhead using ballistic missiles.

2. Drew Thompson:

   If they can develop a reliable nuclear warhead that is small enough to be delivered by a missile, and they can conduct tests of the warhead and missile, then they have demonstrated that they have credible capability.

3. Safety Board:

   A 9n314m warhead detonated outside the aeroplane to the left side of the cockpit. This fits the kind of warhead installed in the Buk surface-to-air missile system.

4. John Venable:

   The munition with knives has been around since at least the Vietnam War.The military term for the warhead is flechettes, which are dart-like submunitions that are released and spread out in flight as an anti-personnel device, munitions have had a variety of warheads since before the Civil War, where they used everything from classic exploding cannonballs, todumbbell-shaped projectiles and grapeshot, which was basically shotgun-shell BBs (only much larger) that used mass and velocity as the engagement mechanism.

5. Hossein Dehghan:

   The Emad missile is not a violation of the nuclear deal or any U.N. resolution since we will never use a nuclear warhead (on it). It's an allegation.