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weaponeer
[ wep-uh-neer ]
noun
- Military. a person who prepares an atomic bomb for detonation.
- a person who designs nuclear weapons.
weaponeer
/ ˡÉÉąčÉ˲ÔÉŞÉ /
noun
- a person associated with the use or maintenance of weapons, esp nuclear weapons
yĐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of weaponeer1
Example Sentences
âMother Nature is the most advanced, sophisticated weaponeer ever invented.â
âTwo additional runs were made, hoping that the target might be picked up after closer observation,â weaponeer Frederick Ashworth wrote in his flight log.
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.
While the Pentagon âweaponeerâ and geoengineering enthusiast Lowell Wood, an astrophysicist, has proclaimed, âWeâve engineered every other environment we live in â why not the planet?â a more humble climate scientist, Ronald G. Prinn of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has asked, âHow can you engineer a system you donât understand?â
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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