neutron bomb
noun
: a nuclear bomb designed to produce lethal neutrons but less blast and fire damage than other nuclear bombs
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The segment immediately following that bloodbath is itself bloodless, but only because a French neutron bomb turns all of Springfield into an empty, echoing graveyard of dusty corpses, with Homer (caught testing out a bomb shelter) seemingly the last man on Earth.
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Dennis Perkins, EW.com, 24 Nov. 2023
Some 46 years after Adam West’s Batman ran around a pier with an oversize bomb, Christian Bale’s Dark Knight fought Bane for control over a fusion-reactor core that was transformed into a decaying neutron bomb.
—James Grebey, Vulture, 20 July 2023
That’s a neutron bomb for trust on the internet.
—Time, 11 Dec. 2022
Just as the books begin to close on Tesla’s challenging second quarter, CEO Elon Musk has dropped what seems to be a neutron bomb on the market.
—Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 23 June 2022
One experiment was to determine how long soldiers could continue to fight after being irradiated by a neutron bomb.
—New York Times, 11 Jan. 2022
The pandemic has been a neutron bomb targeted at the prospects of lower-income working people.
—Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 12 Dec. 2020
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Dennis Perkins, EW.com, 24 Nov. 2023
Some 46 years after Adam West’s Batman ran around a pier with an oversize bomb, Christian Bale’s Dark Knight fought Bane for control over a fusion-reactor core that was transformed into a decaying neutron bomb.
—James Grebey, Vulture, 20 July 2023
That’s a neutron bomb for trust on the internet.
—Time, 11 Dec. 2022
Just as the books begin to close on Tesla’s challenging second quarter, CEO Elon Musk has dropped what seems to be a neutron bomb on the market.
—Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 23 June 2022
One experiment was to determine how long soldiers could continue to fight after being irradiated by a neutron bomb.
—New York Times, 11 Jan. 2022
The pandemic has been a neutron bomb targeted at the prospects of lower-income working people.
—Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 12 Dec. 2020
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