clean bomb

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   an atom bomb leaving little or no radioactive contamination

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Questions about clean bomb

What does clean bomb mean?

clean bomb means "an atom bomb leaving little or no radioactive contamination".

Is clean bomb a common word?

clean bomb is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.