A-bomb
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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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
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
That eloquent account, first published in the New Yorker in 1946, told what happened to six A-bomb survivors during and immediately after the blast.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 22, 2022
Along with a second A-bomb dropped on Nagasaki three days later, it forced the Japanese to surrender, ending the Second World War.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2020
“Whatever! He helped create the A-bomb, for chrissakes,” I had said.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
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