Definition of Nuclear rocket

1. Noun. A rocket engine in which a nuclear reactor is used to heat a propellant.

Generic synonyms: Rocket, Rocket Engine

Definition of Nuclear rocket

1. Noun. (space science) A rocket with a nuclear reactor aboard. ¹

2. Noun. (space science) A rocket where a nuclear process, especially an onboard fission reactor, enables thrust to be produced. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nuclear Rocket

nuclear power plant
nuclear power station
nuclear power stations
nuclear propulsion
nuclear proteins
nuclear quadrupole resonance
nuclear reaction
nuclear reactions
nuclear reactor
nuclear reactor core
nuclear reactor cores
nuclear reactors
nuclear resonance
nuclear response function
nuclear response functions
nuclear rocket
nuclear rockets
nuclear sap
nuclear scaffold serine protease
nuclear scan: adrenals
nuclear sclerosis
nuclear spectrum
nuclear spindle
nuclear stain
nuclear submarine
nuclear summer
nuclear summers
nuclear terrorism
nuclear testing

Literary usage of Nuclear rocket

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Priorities in Space Science Enabled by Nuclear Power And Propulsion by Ssb (2006)
"Wernher von Braun and others recognized the value of a nuclear rocket for sending humans to Mars. The great distances, harmful cosmic radiation, ..."

2. Soviet Military Policy Since World War II by Richard Felix Staar (1986)
"This requires maximum centralization of control of the principal nuclear rocket weapons in the Supreme Command, particularly in the initial period of the ..."

3. The Other Side of the Table: The Soviet Approach to Arms Control by Michael Mandelbaum (1990)
"Second, Khrushchev's use of nuclear "rocket rattling" in his conduct of foreign policy lfor example, during the Berlin ..."

4. Essays on Strategy edited by Thomas C. Gill (1996)
"... the mass use of nuclear rocket weapons for the purpose of achieving the annihilation or capitulation of the enemy in the shortest possible time. ..."

5. In the Shadow of Giants: The Major Powers and the Security of Southeast Asia by Anthony James Gregor (1989)
"Thus Soviet strategists maintained that the "main aims and problems of war will be accomplished by strategic. . . nuclear rocket strikes" with ..."

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