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atom bomb

[at-uhm-bom] / ˈæt əmˈbɒm /
NOUN
nuclear bomb
Synonyms
STRONGEST
atomic bomb hydrogen bomb neutron bomb nuclear warhead
WEAK
A-bomb H-bomb atomic warhead backpack nuke doomsday machine fission bomb nuclear bomb nuclear weapon nuke plutonium bomb thermonuclear bomb thermonuclear weapon

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So he was not dealing with ordinary, day-to-day stuff, let alone whether you should pursue an atom bomb.

From Slate • Mar. 11, 2026

Knowing she’ll lose the ability to pick a side cast her back into the fight, and with an atom bomb that the hive mind, by its endlessly giving nature, had to provide.

From Salon • Dec. 29, 2025

Heavy-water reactors produce plutonium, which - like enriched uranium - can be used to make the core of an atom bomb.

From BBC • Jun. 19, 2025

The core of every nuclear warhead is a hollow, globe-shaped plutonium pit made by engineers at the Energy Department’s lab in Los Alamos, New Mexico, birthplace of the atom bomb.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 19, 2023

Then World War II intervened and Oppenheimer himself became closely involved in the atom bomb project.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking