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superbomb
[ soo-per-bom ]
Word History and Origins
Origin of superbomb1
Example Sentences
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.
By January 1961, when Kennedy took office, plans for a lesser superbomb had grown more detailed.
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.
“Now, 70 years later, the damage done by the one superbomb is 2,000 times more devastating. “Let us gather all of these big bullies together to join in a combined task force to patrol the South China Sea, the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean on both sides, to save life at sea,” Mr. Ramos said.
It's been well and truly Done In and it wasn't even some interdimensional superbomb that did it.
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