How to Use hydrogen bomb in a Sentence

hydrogen bomb

noun

• There was a month in Spain to tell the tale of a missing hydrogen bomb.
  — Jim Buchta, Star Tribune, 25 Aug. 2020
• Is the not-sunrise the sort Coleridge might have seen through an opium haze, or a thing far worse, like a hydrogen bomb?
  — New York Times, 18 Feb. 2020
• The test came less than two weeks after testing a hydrogen bomb.
  — Gabrielle Banks, Houston Chronicle, 19 Feb. 2018
• Within a few years, both the U.S. and the Soviet Union had tested hydrogen bombs.
  — Charles Thorpe, Fortune, 1 Aug. 2023
• Nuclear fusion drives the sun and stars, and hydrogen bombs.
  — Hiawatha Bray, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Mar. 2018
• In 1953, it was set to two minutes to the hour when the Soviet Union and the United States tested hydrogen bombs and kicked off the nuclear arms race.
  — Marlena Scott, Teen Vogue, 9 Feb. 2018
• Starting in 1952, the United States blew up hydrogen bombs around the Marshall Islands.
  — Neima Jahromi, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2019
• Last year, the group moved the hands on the symbolic clock to two-and-a-half minutes from midnight, the closest it's been to midnight since 1953, when the hydrogen bomb was first tested.
  — Editors, USA TODAY, 25 Jan. 2018
• The hydrogen bomb really is like the genie which escaped from the bottle.
  — Paul Kennedy, WSJ, 31 Jan. 2020
• On Sunday, Kim Jong-Un said the country had tested a hydrogen bomb that could be attached to a missile.
  — Marco Santana, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 Sep. 2017
• In 1953, the Soviet Union had just tested its first hydrogen bomb.
  — Elizabeth Horkley, Quartz, 30 Oct. 2019
• The country is believed to have around twenty fission bombs and to be progressing along the path to a much larger hydrogen bomb.
  — The New York Review of Books, 18 Apr. 2019
• This atoll, home to hundreds of people, was where scientists first tested the hydrogen bomb in 1952.
  — Hart Rapaport, Scientific American, 4 Apr. 2022
• One of the great polymaths of the 20th century, father of the computer, one of the inventors of the hydrogen bomb, the creator of game theory.
  — Maria Konnikova, Wired, 23 June 2020
• Much of Oppenheimer’s life after Los Alamos had to do with the question of whether to develop the hydrogen bomb.
  — Charles Seife, Scientific American, 2 Aug. 2023
• If Oppenheimer had reservations about the atomic bomb, he was driven to despair over the prospect of the hydrogen bomb, or, as it was called then, the Super.
  — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 13 Feb. 2024
• The great physicist saved the world only to usher in a more dangerous world of deadlier hydrogen bombs.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 July 2023
• In 1953, the Soviet Union conducted a secret test of its first hydrogen bomb.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2020
• The previous resident of their house was a rocket topped with a four-megaton hydrogen bomb.
  — James A. Fussell, Kansas City Star, 31 Jan. 2024
• After Moscow tested a hydrogen bomb and war broke out on the Korean peninsula, the Cold War hit full stride.
  — James D. Hornfischer, WSJ, 3 May 2018
• Benny Safdie, who plays Edward Teller (now known as the father of the hydrogen bomb), studied nuclear physics in high school.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2024
• The clock is now set at two minutes to midnight, the closest since 1953, when the US took the decision to upgrade its nuclear arsenal with the hydrogen bomb.
  — Stephen A. Crockett Jr., The Root, 25 Jan. 2018
• North Korea threatened to test a hydrogen bomb in response to President Trump’s pledge of new sanctions.
  — Maggie Day, Bloomberg.com, 22 Sep. 2017
• Able and Baker, however, were minor compared the hydrogen bomb tests conducted at the site later in the 1950s.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 11 Dec. 2019
• The Russian state nuclear agency Rosatom has released 59-year-old video footage of the world’s largest hydrogen bomb being tested.
  — oregonlive, 28 Aug. 2020
• During Trump’s first year in office, Kim raced ahead with breakthrough tests of a hydrogen bomb and missiles capable of hitting the US mainland.
  — Jane Perlez, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Mar. 2018
• On September 3rd Mrs Ri was back, claiming the regime had tested a hydrogen bomb (see article).
  — The Economist, 7 Sep. 2017
• The Hiroshima atomic bomb caused such a firestorm, but today’s hydrogen bombs are much more powerful.
  — Max Tegmark, Time, 29 June 2023
• Pyongyang conducted its 6th and largest nuclear test on Sept. 3 and has threatened to test a hydrogen bomb over the Pacific.
  — Max Burman, NBC News, 24 Sep. 2017
• December 12 - North Korea state media says the country has added the hydrogen bomb to its arsenal.
  — CNN, 12 Sep. 2021

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024