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
In 1949, the Soviets built and tested their own A-bomb.
From Slate • Aug. 6, 2020
Thanks to Oppie, he snapped, “we have an A-bomb . . . and what more do you want, mermaids?”
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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