weapons-grade
Speech parts
1. weapons-grade - Adjective
2. weapons-grade - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
extremely strong or concentrated or durable
of a quality adequate for use in weapons (especially in weapons of mass destruction)
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industrial-strength detergent
weapons-grade salsa
weapons-grade plutonium
weapons-grade anthrax
Experts typically say 1,050 kilograms (1.15 tons) of low-enriched uranium is enough material to be re-enriched up to weapons-grade levels of 90 percent purity for one nuclear weapon.
During World War II, the availability of abundant TVA electrical power led the Manhattan Project to locate one of the principal sites for production and isolation of weapons-grade fissile material in East Tennessee.