NOUN
- a nuclear weapon that releases atomic energy by union of light (hydrogen) nuclei at high temperatures to form helium
How To Use H-bomb In A Sentence
- Warner Brothers/Everett Collection 'The Town' Or perhaps, in an effort to capture the apocalyptic stakes said to be at issue, the Congressmen might have screened a bit of Slim Pickens in "Dr. Strangelove," who as the pilot of a B-52 steels his crew to drop an H-bomb: "Heck," he says, "I reckon you wouldn't even be human bein's if you didn't have some pretty strong personal feelin's about nuclear combat. Searching for Cinematic Inspiration
- Darling, I've got to see Jon before I explode with the force of an H-bomb and devastate the diocese. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
- Darling, I've got to see Jon before I explode with the force of an H-bomb and devastate the diocese. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
- America's announcement in January 1950 of plans to develop the H-bomb sparked the beginnings of a global anti-nuclear protest movement.
- Darling, I've got to see Jon before I explode with the force of an H-bomb and devastate the diocese. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
- Of course, the Japanese people also have had a disastrous experience with nuclear weapons -- not only in 1945, when the U.S. government destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki with atomic bombs, but in 1954, when a U.S. government H-bomb test showered a Japanese fishing boat, the Lucky Dragon, with deadly radioactive fallout, and a vast nuclear disarmament movement began. Lawrence Wittner: How Japan Learned About "Nuclear Safety"
- Scientific ideas are on shakier ground because they have a practical component (see the cases about publishing the science behind the H-bomb). The Volokh Conspiracy » Canadian University Restricting Graphic Posters That Compare Abortion to Genocide
- He talks about Harvard (dropping the H-bomb, as they say). The Volokh Conspiracy » But Isn’t It a Bit Hard to Predict With a 7-Year-Old?
- The sheer destructiveness of the H-bomb could force the rival power blocs to negotiate and seek ways to avoid general war.
- During the 1980s, Edward Teller—father of the H-bomb—promoted a radical idea for missile defense: shoot down Soviet ICBMs using high-energy X-ray lasers powered by a nuclear explosion in space. The Omega Theory
