atomic weapon
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Many have expressed fears of an Orwellian-style forever war, or worse, the use of the atomic weapon invented “to end all wars” in a twisted attempt to do so, poisoning the region as a byproduct.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026
On Thursday, the Kremlin sought to cool tensions, saying those tests did not constitute a test of an atomic weapon.
From Barron's • Oct. 30, 2025
Prior to the fall of Berlin, Allied intelligence had already begun to cast serious doubt on Germany’s progress toward developing an atomic weapon.
From Salon • Jul. 22, 2025
In parts of his interview reported by Reuters earlier this week, he said the mutinying Russian mercenaries had headed for a nuclear base in pursuit of a backpack-sized atomic weapon.
From Reuters • Jul. 14, 2023
Sputnik was proof, American policymakers assumed, that the Soviet Union had intercontinental ballistic missiles—many of them, hundreds perhaps, with the power to hurl an atomic weapon at US cities.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
