fission bomb

Questions about fission bomb

What does fission bomb mean?

fission bomb means "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)".

What is another word for fission bomb?

Close synonyms include atom bomb, atomic bomb, A-bomb, plutonium bomb. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fission bomb a common word?

fission 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.