A-bomb

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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

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

He was especially influenced by Dr. Fumio Shigeto, director of a Hiroshina A-bomb hospital and a survivor himself, who had become one of the first to understand radiation sickness.

From New York Times • Mar. 13, 2023

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

“Whatever! He helped create the A-bomb, for chrissakes,” I had said.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen