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atom bomb

[at-uhm-bom] / ˈæt əmˈbɒm /


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Before testing the first atom bomb, the Los Alamos crew asked Hans Bethe to confirm with math that it wouldn’t start a chain reaction and consume the atmosphere.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

This frustrated Marcus because he otherwise liked the innovative theory that had been proposed by Willard Libby, a physicist who had helped develop the atom bomb.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

Knowing she’ll lose the ability to pick a side cast her back into the fight, and with an atom bomb that the hive mind, by its endlessly giving nature, had to provide.

From Salon ● Dec. 29, 2025

Heavy-water reactors produce plutonium, which - like enriched uranium - can be used to make the core of an atom bomb.

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2025

The atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima killed 71,379 people.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut


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