nuclear terrorism

1. 1.

   the use of a nuclear device by a terrorist organization to cause massive devastation or the use (or threat of use) of fissionable radioactive materials

   “assaults on nuclear power plants is one form of nuclear terrorism”

   Broaderterrorism

   terrorism

Questions about nuclear terrorism

What does nuclear terrorism mean?

nuclear terrorism means "the use of a nuclear device by a terrorist organization to cause massive devastation or the use (or threat of use) of fissionable radioactive materials".

Is nuclear terrorism a common word?

nuclear terrorism 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.