Meaning of suitcase nuke | Babel Free

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A portable tactical nuclear weapon.

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“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.”

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