A-bomb
Americannoun
noun
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After news of the attack, Satoshi’s mother rushed to Hiroshima to search for her family, who lived half a mile from the hypocenter, where the A-bomb exploded.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2023
Daniel Sneider, a lecturer in East Asian studies at Stanford University, told me on Wednesday that, in recent interviews with officials and senior advisers in Seoul, nobody seriously advocated a South Korean A-bomb.
From Slate ● Apr. 27, 2023
He was especially influenced by Dr. Fumio Shigeto, director of a Hiroshina A-bomb hospital and a survivor himself, who had become one of the first to understand radiation sickness.
From New York Times ● Mar. 13, 2023
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
“Whatever! He helped create the A-bomb, for chrissakes,” I had said.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
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