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His pitch: We should all be forewarned if the enemy’s H-bombs are heading our way.
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Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2024
If neither the publication of H-bomb secrets nor the release of the Pentagon Papers irreparably harmed national security, then what secrets gone feral will?
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Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2014
Attempts to find work elsewhere were blocked at every turn, despite support from multiple Nobel laureates, Groves and even H-bomb enthusiast Edward Teller.
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Kc Cole, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2024
The specter of trauma has long hung over Godzilla, a creature unearthed from slumber by H-bomb testing in the 1954 original.
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Esther Zuckerman, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2024
In truth, the two halves of the year’s H-bomb double bill are very different films — Dr. Strangelove is a roller coaster of mood swings, Fail Safe is deadly serious from start to finish — but both share an unquestioning faith in the dauntless courage and intrepid skill of our bomber crews.
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Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
By using fusion to power a thermonuclear reaction, H-bomb explosions can be massively more powerful than fission reactions, like that in Gadget.
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Kelsey Atherton, Vulture, 26 July 2023
And this is the H-bomb, uh, several magnitudes more powerful than the atomic bomb.
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Quartz Staff, Quartz, 3 Mar. 2023
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First Known Use
1950, in the meaning defined above
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“H-bomb.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/H-bomb. Accessed 7 Feb. 2025.
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H-bomb
nounˈāch-ˌbäm
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