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
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
It had been flown without a crew through a mushroom cloud during A-bomb tests at Bikini Atoll, a way to gather data without endangering fliers.
From Washington Post • Sep. 25, 2021
In 1949, the Soviets built and tested their own A-bomb.
From Slate • Aug. 6, 2020
“Whatever! He helped create the A-bomb, for chrissakes,” I had said.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.