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

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

Along with a second A-bomb dropped on Nagasaki three days later, it forced the Japanese to surrender, ending the Second World War.

From Slate • Aug. 6, 2020

His story, like that of many American A-bomb survivors, is seldom part of the popular literature surrounding Hiroshima.

From Washington Post • Aug. 4, 2020

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

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik