atomic bomb
Example Sentences
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His latest remarks, made minutes before a landmark meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, follow a pattern of deeply contradictory signals about atomic bombs.
From Barron's
Mr. Plokhy cites the Labour prime minister, Clement Attlee: “The answer to an atomic bomb on London is an atomic bomb on another great city.”
But then, completely unexpectedly months later, America dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
From BBC
The very next day, in fact, the American newspaper PM, based in New York, ran an article speculating on the catastrophic consequences of an atomic bomb detonating in the heart of that very city.
From Salon
"Even though the war was over, the atomic bomb brought invisible terror."
From BBC
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