Examples of H-bomb in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The specter of trauma has long hung over Godzilla, a creature unearthed from slumber by H-bomb testing in the 1954 original. Esther Zuckerman, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2024 In truth, the two halves of the year’s H-bomb double bill are very different films — Dr. Strangelove is a roller coaster of mood swings, Fail Safe is deadly serious from start to finish — but both share an unquestioning faith in the dauntless courage and intrepid skill of our bomber crews. Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019 By using fusion to power a thermonuclear reaction, H-bomb explosions can be massively more powerful than fission reactions, like that in Gadget. Kelsey Atherton, Vulture, 26 July 2023 And this is the H-bomb, uh, several magnitudes more powerful than the atomic bomb. Quartz Staff, Quartz, 3 Mar. 2023

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Word History

First Known Use

1950, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of H-bomb was in 1950

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“H-bomb.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/H-bomb. Accessed 19 Mar. 2024.

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H-bomb

noun
ˈāch-ˌbäm

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