A-bomb
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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You see him become one of America’s leading physicists, take a major role in the secret race to the A-bomb and, together with his recruits, devise and build the world’s first nuclear weapons.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2023
The 1967 picture “The Unknown Man of Shandigor,” written and directed by the Swiss filmmaker Jean-Louis Roy, opens with a documentary shot of an A-bomb explosion — only backward.
From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2022
With its straight-ahead descriptions of nuclear war and its reassuring explanations of how to prepare for it, it’s a snapshot of a time when Americans worried about perishing from a Soviet A-bomb.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 27, 2020
In 1949, the Soviets built and tested their own A-bomb.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2020
Thanks to Oppie, he snapped, “we have an A-bomb . . . and what more do you want, mermaids?”
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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