superbomb

[soo-per-bom]

noun

1. a highly destructive bomb, especially a hydrogen bomb.

Word History and Origins

Origin of superbomb¹

First recorded in 1945–50; super- + bomb

Example Sentences

Kennedy asked how many Americans would die in this all-out superbomb exchange scenario.

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I mean, I watched an episode of “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea” recently, a 1960s submarine series, in which guest star John Cassavetes created a superbomb that could destroy three-quarters of the world, and almost nothing in it made any sense at all, including the presence of John Cassavetes.

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Dr. Wellerstein quotes Edward Teller, a main architect of the hydrogen bomb, as announcing at a 1954 meeting of the Atomic Energy Commission that his laboratory was working on two superbomb designs.

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By January 1961, when Kennedy took office, plans for a lesser superbomb had grown more detailed.

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Truman accelerated the development of the "superbomb," or hydrogen bomb, a weapon that would be one thousand times as powerful as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

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