mushroom cloud
noun
: a mushroom-shaped cloud
specifically
: one caused by the explosion of a nuclear weapon
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In Episode 1, as Cooper Howard is riding away from the mushroom cloud of doom, the observatory is in the shot.
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Meredith Woerner, Variety, 21 June 2024
But there was no mushroom cloud and there was no smoking gun, because the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein didn’t have any weapons of mass destruction.
—Bernie Sanders, Foreign Affairs, 18 Mar. 2024
Special-effects supervisor Scott Fisher and his team used high explosives and fuel, mixed to give the shape of a mushroom cloud, and then slowed the footage down to make the explosion seem bigger.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2024
In another, the two characters watched a Barbie-pink mushroom cloud rise over a desert landscape.
—Victoria Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 4 May 2024
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Meredith Woerner, Variety, 21 June 2024
But there was no mushroom cloud and there was no smoking gun, because the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein didn’t have any weapons of mass destruction.
—Bernie Sanders, Foreign Affairs, 18 Mar. 2024
Special-effects supervisor Scott Fisher and his team used high explosives and fuel, mixed to give the shape of a mushroom cloud, and then slowed the footage down to make the explosion seem bigger.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2024
In another, the two characters watched a Barbie-pink mushroom cloud rise over a desert landscape.
—Victoria Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 4 May 2024
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“Mushroom cloud.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mushroom%20cloud. Accessed 7 Jul. 2024.
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