weaponeer

American  

[wep-uh-neer] / ˌwɛp əˈnɪər /

noun

1. Military. a person who prepares an atomic bomb for detonation.

2. a person who designs nuclear weapons.

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weaponeer British  

/ ˌwɛpəˈnɪə /

noun

1. a person associated with the use or maintenance of weapons, esp nuclear weapons

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Etymology

Origin of weaponeer

First recorded in 1945; weapon + -eer

Example Sentences

“Mother Nature is the most advanced, sophisticated weaponeer ever invented.”

From Washington Post

“Two additional runs were made, hoping that the target might be picked up after closer observation,” weaponeer Frederick Ashworth wrote in his flight log.

From Literature

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.

From Salon

While the Pentagon “weaponeer” and geoengineering enthusiast Lowell Wood, an astrophysicist, has proclaimed, “We’ve engineered every other environment we live in — why not the planet?” a more humble climate scientist, Ronald G. Prinn of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has asked, “How can you engineer a system you don’t understand?”

From New York Times

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.

From Time Magazine Archive