A-bomb

Example Sentences

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After news of the attack, Satoshi’s mother rushed to Hiroshima to search for her family, who lived half a mile from the hypocenter, where the A-bomb exploded.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2023

Daniel Sneider, a lecturer in East Asian studies at Stanford University, told me on Wednesday that, in recent interviews with officials and senior advisers in Seoul, nobody seriously advocated a South Korean A-bomb.

From Slate • Apr. 27, 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

That eloquent account, first published in the New Yorker in 1946, told what happened to six A-bomb survivors during and immediately after the blast.

From Washington Post • Sep. 22, 2022

“Whatever! He helped create the A-bomb, for chrissakes,” I had said.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen