A-bomb
a variant of atomic bomb.
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How to use A-bomb in a sentence
The daughter of physicists, Sorokko grew up in Arzamas-16, home of the first Soviet A-bomb, a “closed city.”
Tatiana Sorokko Is the Queen of Vintage Couture | Anthony Haden-Guest | October 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAgainst the generals, the president was declaring that the A-bomb was not just another weapon.
"Well, an A-bomb's a pretty complicated piece of mechanism, even if you have the plans for it," Kent Pickering said.
Uller Uprising | Henry Beam Piper, John D. Clark and John F. CarrBut your A-bomb at zero minus one second looks as harmless as a fallen log.
The K-Factor | Harry Harrison (AKA Henry Maxwell Dempsey)It wasn't exactly an A-bomb, but the spray hit us a half mile away, and the surface wave swamped us.
Tabby | Winston Marks
They'd go up like an A-bomb two minutes after they threw it on.
This One Problem | M. C. Pease"All right, they could have built an A-bomb," Buhrmann said.
Uller Uprising | Henry Beam Piper, John D. Clark and John F. Carr
British Dictionary definitions for A-bomb
short for atomic bomb
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