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Definition of Plutonium bomb
1. Noun. A nuclear weapon in which enormous energy is released by nuclear fission (splitting the nuclei of a heavy element like uranium 235 or plutonium 239).
Generic synonyms: Bomb, Atomic Weapon, Nuclear Weapon
Specialized synonyms: Clean Bomb, Dirty Bomb, Neutron Bomb
Terms within: Plutonium Pit, Plutonium Trigger
Lexicographical Neighbors of Plutonium Bomb
Literary usage of Plutonium bomb
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Manhattan Project: Making the Atomic Bomb by F. G. Gosling (1999)
"Fat Man plutonium bomb Being Readied at Tinian. Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Nagasaki Factional struggles and communications problems prevented Japan ..."
2. The Gravest Danger: Nuclear Weapons by Sidney David Drell, James E. Goodby (2003)
"In 2002, it was learned that the North Koreans had not just one, but two weapons
development programs, the visible one designed to build a plutonium bomb ..."
3. Much Bigger Than Grownups: Chronicles of a Native South Africanby Shelley Wood Gauld by Shelley Wood Gauld (2006)
"... War": An Oxymoron) On the 9th August, 1945, the all-Christian US crew on the
Boeing B-29 Bockscar dropped "Fat Man," a plutonium bomb, on Nagasaki. ..."
4. The Manhattan Project: Making the Atomic Bomb by F. G. Gosling (1999)
"Fat Man plutonium bomb Being Readied at Tinian. Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Nagasaki Factional struggles and communications problems prevented Japan ..."
5. The Gravest Danger: Nuclear Weapons by Sidney David Drell, James E. Goodby (2003)
"In 2002, it was learned that the North Koreans had not just one, but two weapons
development programs, the visible one designed to build a plutonium bomb ..."
6. Much Bigger Than Grownups: Chronicles of a Native South Africanby Shelley Wood Gauld by Shelley Wood Gauld (2006)
"... War": An Oxymoron) On the 9th August, 1945, the all-Christian US crew on the
Boeing B-29 Bockscar dropped "Fat Man," a plutonium bomb, on Nagasaki. ..."
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