: the section of a missile containing the explosive, chemical, or incendiary charge
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Bomarc rockets had jets designed to propel a W40 nuclear warhead into high-flying USSR aircraft, which would detonate in the sky, showering the earth with radioactive debris, neutralizing quite a few enemies of American freedom.
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Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2025
Each can carry 154 Tomahawks with a high-explosive warhead of up to 1,000 pounds, and a range of about 1,000 miles.
—Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 2 Aug. 2025
This is a 20-foot-long weapon flying under 300 feet to avoid radar at around 500 mph, and delivering a 1,000-pound warhead to targets around 1,000 miles away.
—David Hambling, Forbes.com, 23 July 2025
As the Boomers grew up, the number of nuclear weapons skyrocketed, with estimates of about 5,000 warheads in 1956 and then a peak of more than 70,000 in the 1980s.
—Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 10 July 2025
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Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2025
Each can carry 154 Tomahawks with a high-explosive warhead of up to 1,000 pounds, and a range of about 1,000 miles.
—Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 2 Aug. 2025
This is a 20-foot-long weapon flying under 300 feet to avoid radar at around 500 mph, and delivering a 1,000-pound warhead to targets around 1,000 miles away.
—David Hambling, Forbes.com, 23 July 2025
As the Boomers grew up, the number of nuclear weapons skyrocketed, with estimates of about 5,000 warheads in 1956 and then a peak of more than 70,000 in the 1980s.
—Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 10 July 2025
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“Warhead.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/warhead. Accessed 10 Aug. 2025.
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warhead
noun
war·head
ˈwȯ(ə)r-ˌhed 
: the section of a missile containing the charge
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