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 the two years since, Iran has resumed enriching uranium to the point where it could have enough to build an A-bomb in a month or so.
From Slate • Nov. 29, 2021
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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