atom bomb

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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

The mayor of Nagasaki has appealed for an end to the wars raging in the world on the 80th anniversary of the US atom bomb attack which destroyed the Japanese city.

From BBC • Aug. 9, 2025

Last month, American spy agencies told Congress, as well as foreign allies, that Mr. Putin might deploy and use an atom bomb in space that could disable thousands of satellites.

From New York Times • Mar. 6, 2024

Amid the huge success of Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, newly declassified documents reveal a chilling secret about the development of the atom bomb, Fred Kaplan writes.

From Slate • Aug. 8, 2023

“I don’t know exactly what happened,” Aikichi Kuboyama told his wife, “but on our way home we encountered something—an atom bomb, I think.”

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin