How to Use atomic bomb in a Sentence
atomic bomb
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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 -
White Sands Missile Range was established in 1945, and was the site of the world's first atomic bomb test.
— Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 24 Dec. 2019 -
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 -
That’s the same day an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.
— Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Nov. 2019 -
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 -
But one thing people agree on is that the fire raids were probably worse than the atomic bomb.
— John Ismay, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020 -
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 -
At the time, Germany had surrendered, and the U.S. was days away from dropping the first of two atomic bombs on Japan that ended the war.
— Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2019 -
Two years later, it was confirmed that the director’s next project would be a biopic on the father of the atomic bomb.
— J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 21 Nov. 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 -
Meitner, who had fled Germany because of the Nazis, was horrified at the thought of an atomic bomb.
— Ashraya Gupta, Scientific American, 14 Sep. 2023 -
Lax recalls what Albert Einstein once said about the legacy of the atomic bomb.
— Jamie Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 July 2020 -
Seventy years earlier, the Enola Gay — the B-29 super fortress that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan — was built inside these walls.
— Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2024
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