A-bomb

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

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

The 1967 picture “The Unknown Man of Shandigor,” written and directed by the Swiss filmmaker Jean-Louis Roy, opens with a documentary shot of an A-bomb explosion — only backward.

From New York Times • Mar. 1, 2022

In the two years since, Iran has resumed enriching uranium to the point where it could have enough to build an A-bomb in a month or so.

From Slate • Nov. 29, 2021

Thanks to Oppie, he snapped, “we have an A-bomb . . . and what more do you want, mermaids?”

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik