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After all, if his film about the A-bomb could make a billion dollars, imagine what Nolan’s Bond movie could do. Benjamin Svetkey, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019 The Atlas powered Gemini craft was available in model form, as were the A-bomb toting B-29s and B-52s. Jody Mamone, Hartford Courant, 22 Nov. 2024 Named after an A-bomb test in the Pacific's Bikini Atoll, and popularized by French actress Brigitte Bardot, the bikini would conquer beaches, fashion shoots, pin-ups and movies. David Morgan, CBS News, 12 July 2024 The biopic about the father of the A-bomb will also be competing for best screenplay, best male actor for Cillian Murphy, a best supporting male actor nod for Robert Downey Jr. and best supporting female actor for Emily Blunt. Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Jan. 2024 Understanding the human, political and moral implications of their research doesn’t come as easily, though their leader, J. Robert Oppenheimer (at least as played by Cillian Murphy), gains some inkling in Christopher Nolan’s intimate A-bomb epic. Bob Strauss, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024 Japan finally enacted the A-bomb Survivors Medical Care Law in 1957, more than a decade after the attacks, which enabled survivors to receive health examinations and medical care, although there were huge arguments over who would to be eligible. Arthur Caplan, Scientific American, 6 Aug. 2023 That A-bomb test sequence is the film’s great centerpiece. Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 July 2023 The A-list cast of Christopher Nolan's A-bomb epic Oppenheimer all agree the film's star, Irish actor Cillian Murphy, gives the performance of his life as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American physicist who led the U.S. effort to create an atomic bomb during World War II. Nigel Smith, Peoplemag, 21 July 2023

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First Known Use

1945, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of A-bomb was in 1945

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“A-bomb.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/A-bomb. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.

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A-bomb

noun
ˈā-ˌbäm
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