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atom bomb

[at-uhm-bom] / ˈæt əmˈbɒm /


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Knowing she’ll lose the ability to pick a side cast her back into the fight, and with an atom bomb that the hive mind, by its endlessly giving nature, had to provide.

From Salon • Dec. 29, 2025

Heavy-water reactors produce plutonium, which - like enriched uranium - can be used to make the core of an atom bomb.

From BBC • Jun. 19, 2025

On July 30, in a memo on the likely effects of an atom bomb dropped on Japan, he wrote Gen. George Marshall, the U.S.

From Slate • Aug. 8, 2023

In one such instance, the official “Barbie” movie account responded to a fan-made image depicting Barbie with an atom bomb bouffant with the comment, “This Ken is a stylist.”

From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2023

Many still died from the disease, even though the atom bomb had been dropped on Hiroshima nine years before.

From "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes" by Eleanor Coerr




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