A-bomb
Example Sentences
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After news of the attack, Satoshi’s mother rushed to Hiroshima to search for her family, who lived half a mile from the hypocenter, where the A-bomb exploded.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2023
That eloquent account, first published in the New Yorker in 1946, told what happened to six A-bomb survivors during and immediately after the blast.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 22, 2022
The 1967 picture “The Unknown Man of Shandigor,” written and directed by the Swiss filmmaker Jean-Louis Roy, opens with a documentary shot of an A-bomb explosion — only backward.
From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2022
In the two years since, Iran has resumed enriching uranium to the point where it could have enough to build an A-bomb in a month or so.
From Slate ● Nov. 29, 2021
Thanks to Oppie, he snapped, “we have an A-bomb . . . and what more do you want, mermaids?”
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
