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The meaning of the word nuclear weapon, is a weapon that has a nuclear warhead on it.
Originally as a defense against Nazi Germany possibly making one.
This nuclear weapon is called an atomic bomb or a nuclear bomb
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D Roosevelt
Nuclear weapon detonations
If by "bomb" you mean a conventional explosive weapon, then the nuclear weapon is more powerful.
nuclear chemicals such as plutonium
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No. LLNL even tested several Uranium-Hydride bombs in the 1950s. Even though their computer models said the devices should explode, none gave a nuclear yield. One could use the waste from the reactor as a Radiological Weapon, but the reactor itself is not useful as a weapon.
the first nuclear weapon was issued in WW2 created by the americans in a chicargo squash court