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hydrogen bomb

noun as in nuclear bomb

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And Truman did not shrink from building the hydrogen bomb, saying “we have got to have it if only for bargaining purposes with the Russians.”

Teller’s explanation was likely self-serving given his later acrimonious rift with Oppenheimer over the hydrogen bomb.

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In the 1950s and 60s, servicemen witnessed dozens of atomic and hydrogen bomb tests and radioactive experiments in Australia and the South Pacific as part of the UK's nuclear programme.

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In early 1960s America, the Reich rules by technology, building a hydrogen bomb for a genocidal attack on Africa and using Wernher von Braun’s rockets to colonize the solar system.

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Trump's power doesn't come from some kind of single enriched core like an atomic or hydrogen bomb.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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