- a variation of atomic bomb.
atom bomb
Example Sentences
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Before testing the first atom bomb, the Los Alamos crew asked Hans Bethe to confirm with math that it wouldn’t start a chain reaction and consume the atmosphere.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
This frustrated Marcus because he otherwise liked the innovative theory that had been proposed by Willard Libby, a physicist who had helped develop the atom bomb.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
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
Part of this hospital was especially for those with the atom bomb sickness.
From "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes" by Eleanor Coerr
