suitcase nuke

English

SADM in its carry bag

Noun

suitcase nuke (plural suitcase nukes)

1. A portable tactical nuclear weapon.

   Synonyms: backpack nuke, snuke, mini-nuke, pocket nuke

   • [2023 June 17, Max Seddon, “Nuclear arms sent to Belarus, says Putin”, in FT Weekend, page 2:

     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.]

Translations

Translations

• German: Kofferatombombe f

Further reading

• suitcase nuclear device on Wikipedia.Wikipedia