How to Use atomic bomb in a Sentence

atomic bomb

noun
  • 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
  • The year was 1945, and the atomic bomb had just changed the boundaries of science forever.
    David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 27 Jan. 2021
  • And there was no way to measure or or explain the atomic bomb in comparison to more traditional arms.
    David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 27 Jan. 2021
  • In 1945, not long after Eliot wrote that essay, the first atomic bomb was exploded.
    Jim Holt, The New York Review of Books, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Fakhrizadeh has long been suspected by the West of having masterminded a covert atomic bomb program that was halted in 2003.
    Saphora Smith, NBC News, 27 Nov. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Hegemony on the cheap can come only from the atomic bomb.
    Reuel Marc Gerecht and Ray Takeyh, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2021
  • 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 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
  • In the 1940s, most of the atomic bomb technology was completely new.
    Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 7 Apr. 2022
  • The blast was around 1,000 times more powerful than the Hiroshima atomic bomb.
    Christopher R. Moore, The Conversation, 20 Sep. 2021
  • So there was a strong belief that in the aftermath of the atomic bomb that the way to win a war was to never end up in actual combat.
    David Lipset, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Getting ready for an atomic bomb to fall doesn’t predict or influence whether the bomb will fall.
    Mary Laura Philpott, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2022
  • And my assignment was to take, collect the blood from the research men who, scientists who were working on the atomic bomb.
    Monica Lopez, Scientific American, 27 July 2023
  • The title nods to Las Vegas in the 1950s, when its proximity to the atomic bomb test city in the Nevada desert seemed exotic.
    Spin Staff, Spin, 29 Sep. 2023
  • She was commissioned by the scientists who built the atomic bomb that ended World War II.
    Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Tens of thousands of people were killed by the 1945 atomic bombs, both instantly and in the months and years that followed due to radiation sickness.
    Hanako Montgomery, CNN, 1 Aug. 2024
  • In 1963, for the eighteenth anniversary of the atomic bomb being dropped on Hiroshima, a Chicago resident had an idea.
    William Lambers, Hartford Courant, 5 Aug. 2024

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