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

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

That was the joint U.S.–Israeli cyberwar operation that hacked into the Iranians’ nuclear infrastructure, sabotaging their ability to enrich uranium and thus build an atom bomb.

From Slate • Apr. 15, 2024

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

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