A-bomb
Example Sentences
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You see him become one of America’s leading physicists, take a major role in the secret race to the A-bomb and, together with his recruits, devise and build the world’s first nuclear weapons.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2023
He was especially influenced by Dr. Fumio Shigeto, director of a Hiroshina A-bomb hospital and a survivor himself, who had become one of the first to understand radiation sickness.
From New York Times ● Mar. 13, 2023
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
His story, like that of many American A-bomb survivors, is seldom part of the popular literature surrounding Hiroshima.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 4, 2020
Thanks to Oppie, he snapped, “we have an A-bomb . . . and what more do you want, mermaids?”
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
