nuclear bomb

Example Sentences

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"It's like if the Manhattan Project announced the nuclear bomb within a cute little Calvin and Hobbes cartoon."

From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026

A Reuters report that Iranian hardliners were pushing for Tehran to obtain a nuclear bomb helped push stocks to their lowest levels of the session in the afternoon, according to commentary published by Mizuho Securities.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 26, 2026

Upon the plane’s return to the U.S., its “suitcase nuke” triggered the Geiger counters at an airport in Maine, convincing a customs agent that a nuclear bomb was about to strike America.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

Plutonium-239 is a radioactive isotope and byproduct of nuclear bomb explosions.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2025

The land was in the desert near where nuclear bomb tests had been held.

From "Kira-Kira" by Cynthia Kadohata