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A-bomb

[ay-bom] / ˈeɪˌbɒm /


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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

Daniel Sneider, a lecturer in East Asian studies at Stanford University, told me on Wednesday that, in recent interviews with officials and senior advisers in Seoul, nobody seriously advocated a South Korean A-bomb.

From Slate ● Apr. 27, 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

Thanks to Oppie, he snapped, “we have an A-bomb . . . and what more do you want, mermaids?”

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik


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