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nuclear bomb

noun

a bomb whose force is due to uncontrolled nuclear fusion or nuclear fission

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President Pezeshkian told the UN this week that his country would never seek to build a nuclear bomb.

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"Why does China prefer war? A nuclear bomb could fall near the border," her character says in one episode of the new Disney+ series.

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One is a left-wing advocate of multi-culturalism, the other a conservative who has, albeit jokingly, referred to the UK as "the first truly Islamist country" with a nuclear bomb.

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At 08:15 on August 6, 1945, as a nuclear bomb was falling like a stone through the skies over Hiroshima, Lee Jung-soon was on her way to elementary school.

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The controversial airstrikes targeted numerous nuclear facilities within the country in the hopes of hindering the country’s development of a nuclear bomb.