How to Use atomic bomb in a Sentence

atomic bomb

noun
  • Lax recalls what Albert Einstein once said about the legacy of the atomic bomb.
    Jamie Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 July 2020
  • Truman, vice president for just four months, hadn’t even been briefed on the secret program that would create an atomic bomb.
    National Geographic, 27 July 2020
  • Truman had been vice president for only three months, and knew nothing about the Manhattan Project and the race to build the atomic bomb.
    CBS News, 7 June 2020
  • Hiroshima, Japan, marks the 75th anniversary of the world's first atomic bomb attack with a ceremony at a peace park.
    David Clark Scott, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Aug. 2020
  • The process to build and test an atomic bomb may take years, leaving Iran vulnerable to Israeli attacks on its nuclear facilities.
    Mostafa Salem, CNN, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Yet she was born eight years after American forces flattened Hiroshima with Little Boy, the first atomic bomb used in combat.
    The Economist, 1 Aug. 2020
  • His assignment was to work on complex calculations of shock waves, trying to solve the partial differential equations that govern the explosion of an atomic bomb.
    Jamie Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 July 2020
  • The film is about the creation of the atomic bomb during World War II.
    Samantha Stutsman, Peoplemag, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Then there is the so, so brief mention of the atomic bomb in this book.
    Paul Kennedy, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2021
  • For scale—that’s a force 150 times greater than an atomic bomb.
    Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Like the advent of the gun, the crossbow, and the machine gun, the atomic bomb changed the shape of warfare.
    David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 27 Jan. 2021
  • While the movie is very much about the development of the atomic bomb.
    Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 7 July 2022
  • And it can all be traced back to the effort to develop the atomic bomb.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 19 July 2023
  • This year marks the 75th anniversary of the first atomic bomb.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 10 Aug. 2020
  • The world will note that the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima….
    Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 31 Mar. 2022
  • Kids are taught to duck and hide under their desks in case of an atomic bomb.
    Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2022
  • But not using the atomic bomb would have been far worse.
    John C. Hopkins, WSJ, 5 Aug. 2020
  • The atomic bomb had the ability to alter and change the course of history.
    Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 7 July 2022
  • The clock was created in 1945 to dramatize the atomic bomb’s danger to the world.
    Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 18 Nov. 2022
  • The year was 1945, and the atomic bomb had just changed the boundaries of science forever.
    David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 27 Jan. 2021
  • This was that atomic bomb that went off so many years before with Flag.
    Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2021
  • The town was critical to the development of the first atomic bomb.
    Jim Clash, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2022
  • Miyake was born in Hiroshima, Japan, in 1938, just a few short years before the atomic bomb hit the city.
    Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 9 Aug. 2022
  • According to the site's website, the impact hit the Earth with a force 150 times greater than an atomic bomb.
    Brenna Gauchat, The Arizona Republic, 24 June 2024
  • Hegemony on the cheap can come only from the atomic bomb.
    Reuel Marc Gerecht and Ray Takeyh, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2021
  • The virus was second only to the atomic bomb as to what Americans feared most.
    Sean B. Carroll, Scientific American, 8 Nov. 2020
  • Martinez White grew up in a community 45 miles from the site of the first atomic bomb test.
    Claudia Grisales, NPR, 16 May 2024
  • Groves was told that the decision about whether to use another atomic bomb would be made the next day.
    National Geographic, 4 Aug. 2020
  • At some point in the midst of their walking around an imaginary barnyard, Adler told the class that an atomic bomb was about to fall.
    Evan Kindley, The New Republic, 31 Jan. 2022
  • From the bow and arrow to the atomic bomb, war has always been a key driver of technological advancement.
    Bernard Marr, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2024

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