Synonyms for nuclear weapon
nu·cle·ar weapon

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1. nuclear weaponnoun

   Synonyms:
   thermonuclear weapon, nuke, atomic weapon

2. nuclear weaponnoun

   A weapon that derives its energy from the nuclear reactions of either fission or fusion.

   Synonyms:
   nuke, atomic weapon, thermonuclear weapon

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1. nuclear weapon, atomic weaponnoun

   a weapon of mass destruction whose explosive power derives from a nuclear reaction

   Synonyms:
   atomic weapon

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1. Mark Milley:

   The United States military has developed multiple options for our national leadership to consider if or when Iran decides to develop a nuclear weapon.

2. Boris Johnson:

   If they do get a nuclear weapon, you're going to get an arms race in the Middle East, you're going to have the Saudis wanting one, the Egyptians wanting one, the Emiratis. It's already a very, very dangerous state at the moment, we don't want to go down that road. There doesn't seem to me at the moment to be a viable military solution.

3. Brett McGurk:

   There is no question, we are not going to allow Iran to get a nuclear weapon, period, and when it came to military force for behavior change, that is a pretty fuzzy objective for a military force. When it comes to military force to prevent a country from obtaining a nuclear weapon, that is a very achievable objective.

4. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei:

   The Americans say they stopped Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon, they know it’s not true. We had a fatwa (religious ruling), declaring nuclear weapons to be religiously forbidden under Islamic law. It had nothing to do with the nuclear talks.

5. Trita Parsi:

   The calculation of the Trump team is that will be too politically costly and that will deter the Joe Biden team from even trying, but a lot of Democrats will be unhappy to see Joe Biden not undo this, we're talking about a nuclear deal that prevents Iran from having a nuclear weapon, and you're willing to forgo that just because you don't want to undo some [ sanctions ] designations ?