NOUN
- a nuclear weapon in which enormous energy is released by nuclear fission (splitting the nuclei of a heavy element like uranium 235 or plutonium 239)
How To Use atom bomb In A Sentence
- The future of the atom bomb was still in doubt. The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
- The future of the atom bomb was still in doubt. The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
- Destruction has been brought to an area 160 times larger than that hit by the Hiroshima atom bomb. Times, Sunday Times
- There were no explosives or incendiaries within the rods; the sheer kinetic force of the rod falling and hitting the target had the explosive effect of an atom bomb.
- At the time, the C . I. A . publicly estimated that North Korea might already possess an atom bomb.
- Lou Gots: Let us remember these and all the other pagan barbarities this August 6th, when the peace-creeps float their candlelit lanterns in the harbors at the annual Atom Bomb festival. The Volokh Conspiracy » Biological Weapons Amnesia
- The ancient contraption looked as secure from the attentions of a modern-day safebreaker as an open city from an atom bomb. A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
- The atom bomb and the bacterial bomb, wielded by the wicked communist or the wicked capitalist as the case may be, make Washington and the Kremlin tremble, and drive men further along the road toward the abyss. Bertrand Russell - Nobel Lecture
- the burst of an atom bomb creates enormous radiation aloft
- The trouble is that "SOME corals are again flourishing on Bikini Atoll, the Pacific site of the largest American atom bomb ever exploded". The fragile ecology
