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

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

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

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

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

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett