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weaponeer

[ wep-uh-neer ]

noun

  1. Military. a person who prepares an atomic bomb for detonation.
  2. a person who designs nuclear weapons.


weaponeer

/ ˌˇÉɛąčəˈ˛Ôɪə /

noun

  1. a person associated with the use or maintenance of weapons, esp nuclear weapons
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˜yĐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of weaponeer1

First recorded in 1945; weapon + -eer
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Example Sentences

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“Mother Nature is the most advanced, sophisticated weaponeer ever invented.”

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“Two additional runs were made, hoping that the target might be picked up after closer observation,” weaponeer Frederick Ashworth wrote in his flight log.

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Further, Sweeney and his weaponeer, Navy commander Fred Ashworth, knew that not using the bomb on Japan might require dumping it into the sea to prevent a nuclear explosion upon landing.

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While the Pentagon “weaponeer” and geoengineering enthusiast Lowell Wood, an astrophysicist, has proclaimed, “We’ve engineered every other environment we live in — why not the planet?” a more humble climate scientist, Ronald G. Prinn of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has asked, “How can you engineer a system you don’t understand?”

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Rear Admiral William Sterling Parsons, 52, deputy Navy ordnance chief and pioneer A-bomb weaponeer; of a heart attack, ten minutes after entering the National Naval Medical Center for a checkup; in Bethesda, Md. During World War II, he helped set up the first A-bomb test at Alamogordo, N. Mex.

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