bomb

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We know because in 1965 an A-4 rolled off the USS Ticonderoga, leaving a bomb capable of 1 megaton yield at the bottom of the Philippine Sea, where it remains.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

Dahlia Lithwick: Even by the low, low standards of the DOJ these days, this was quite a bomb.

From Slate • May 22, 2026

The bomb squad checked the package which turned out to be a laser hair removal device and a box for hot chocolate, police said.

From BBC • May 21, 2026

Reed, who died at his home in New York Tuesday at 87, was a provocateur, a bomb thrower.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026

In a secret lab in the Ural Mountains, the Soviet physicist Andrei Sakharov and his team devised a new kind of hydrogen bomb.

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