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Meaning of suitcase nuke | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A portable tactical nuclear weapon.

Equivalents

Deutsch Kofferatombombe

Examples

“Tactical nuclear weapons, known as “suitcase nukes”, are smaller than strategic ones and can be deployed at short range for battlefield use, though Alexander Lukashenko, Belarus's strongman leader, said this week that the warheads were three times more powerful than the bombs the US dropped on Japan during the second world war.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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