warhead

Converse of object

• detonate: A ' smart ' fuse detonates the warhead in the underground bunker.
• deploy: By 2012, we will have 80 % fewer strategic warheads deployed than at the end of the Cold War.
• dismantle: The fissile materials from dismantled warheads would have to be placed under safeguards.
• carry: Unlike the Ajax, the Hercules was designed from the outset to carry a nuclear warhead.
• destroy: In the latest test, to destroy a dummy warhead fired from Alaska, the interception missile never even got off the ground.
• remove: We destroyed the last nuclear warhead removed from the territory of Ukraine to Russia in October 2001.

Noun used with modifier

• megaton: For example: you get two attacks with a 20 megaton warhead; with a 50 megaton warhead you get 5 attacks.
• missile: Biological weapons can be delivered in a missile warhead or in the form of a bomb.
• chemical: The Iraqi forces are most likely to fire chemical warheads to cover their retreat or to put down an internal uprising, officials said.

Adjective modifier

• nuclear: A nuclear warhead can be fitted to a torpedo.
• thermonuclear: In 1958, Britain resumed its Special Nuclear Relationship with the United States producing an Anglicized version of the US W28 thermonuclear warhead.
• low-yield: In reality, adding low-yield warheads to the world's nuclear inventory simply makes their eventual use more likely.
• ballistic: We believe it could deliver CBW by a variety of means, including in ballistic missile warheads.
• tactical: A tactical nuclear warhead dropped anywhere at all is the problem.
• strategic: By 2012, we will have 80 % fewer strategic warheads deployed than at the end of the Cold War.

Preposition: on

• missile: This would, for example, impede China from placing multiple warheads on a mobile missile.

Modifies a noun

• dismantlement: I can assure you that we share your concerns about the need to dispose of material resulting from warhead dismantlement.
• stockpile: This additional investment at AWE is required to sustain the existing warhead stockpile in-service irrespective of decisions on any successor warhead.

Preposition: from

• missile: The further step of removing warheads from missiles would also add a new vulnerability to our deterrent posture.

Preposition: for

• missile: There was a nuclear warhead for this missile, code named Indigo Hammer.