nuclear bomb
Britishnoun
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
Artifacts from the birth of the nuclear age are also featured, including items recovered from postwar Hiroshima and a letter from the father of the nuclear bomb, Robert J. Oppenheimer.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 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
Q: How is it possible that humans invented something as amazing as an airplane and something as awful as a nuclear bomb?
From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon
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