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

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

In 1949, the Soviets built and tested their own A-bomb.

From Slate • Aug. 6, 2020

With that contraption on she wouldn’t hear the A-bomb explode.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett