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Definition of Nuclear rocket
1. Noun. A rocket engine in which a nuclear reactor is used to heat a propellant.
Definition of Nuclear rocket
1. Noun. (space science) A rocket with a nuclear reactor aboard. ¹
2. Noun. (space science) A rocket where a nuclear process, especially an onboard fission reactor, enables thrust to be produced. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nuclear Rocket
Literary usage of Nuclear rocket
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Priorities in Space Science Enabled by Nuclear Power And Propulsion by Ssb (2006)
"Wernher von Braun and others recognized the value of a nuclear rocket for sending
humans to Mars. The great distances, harmful cosmic radiation, ..."
2. Soviet Military Policy Since World War II by Richard Felix Staar (1986)
"This requires maximum centralization of control of the principal nuclear rocket
weapons in the Supreme Command, particularly in the initial period of the ..."
3. The Other Side of the Table: The Soviet Approach to Arms Control by Michael Mandelbaum (1990)
"Second, Khrushchev's use of nuclear "rocket rattling" in his conduct of foreign
policy lfor example, during the Berlin ..."
4. Essays on Strategy edited by Thomas C. Gill (1996)
"... the mass use of nuclear rocket weapons for the purpose of achieving the
annihilation or capitulation of the enemy in the shortest possible time. ..."
5. In the Shadow of Giants: The Major Powers and the Security of Southeast Asia by Anthony James Gregor (1989)
"Thus Soviet strategists maintained that the "main aims and problems of war will
be accomplished by strategic. . . nuclear rocket strikes" with ..."
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