A-bomb

Example Sentences

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You see him become one of America’s leading physicists, take a major role in the secret race to the A-bomb and, together with his recruits, devise and build the world’s first nuclear weapons.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 11, 2023

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

With its straight-ahead descriptions of nuclear war and its reassuring explanations of how to prepare for it, it’s a snapshot of a time when Americans worried about perishing from a Soviet A-bomb.

From Washington Post • Oct. 27, 2020

With that contraption on she wouldn’t hear the A-bomb explode.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett