Military. Adapted or used for setting on fire an enemy's buildings, ships, etc. Used esp. of a type of aerial bomb that ignites on impact.

Applied to ordnance of the larger kind. Also applied to aerial bombs.

Of a nuclear weapon: having considerable radioactive fall-out. colloquial.

a bomb that is guided to its target with a high degree of precision (cf. guided, adj. b); frequently figurative.

ionizing radiation of increased intensity; spec. (frequently attributive) that from certain low-yield thermonuclear weapons which produce less blast…