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
  • 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
  • Thermonuclear bombs, also known as hydrogen bombs, are much, much larger in explosive yield than traditional nuclear weapons, and introduced the megaton into the lexicon of military planners.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 25 July 2023

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