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
In 1949, the Soviets built and tested their own A-bomb.
From Slate • Aug. 6, 2020
His story, like that of many American A-bomb survivors, is seldom part of the popular literature surrounding Hiroshima.
From Washington Post • Aug. 4, 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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