H-bomb

noun

ˈāch-ˌbäm 

: hydrogen bomb

Examples of H-bomb in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

When a government committee chaired by Oppenheimer recommended strongly against the development of the H-bomb, the Atomic Energy Commission buried the report by classifying it as secret. — Scott W. Stern, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2026

If dragons are nukes, Vhagar is an H-bomb while everyone else still has lesser A-bombs. — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 20 June 2026

Attempts to find work elsewhere were blocked at every turn, despite support from multiple Nobel laureates, Groves and even H-bomb enthusiast Edward Teller. — Kc Cole, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2024

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

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

If neither the publication of H-bomb secrets nor the release of the Pentagon Papers irreparably harmed national security, then what secrets gone feral will? — Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2014

Word History

First Known Use

1950, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for H-bomb

• balm
• bom
• bomb
• calm
• dom
• halm
• hom
• malm
• mam
• mom
• palm
• pom

Kids Definition

H-bomb

noun

ˈāch-ˌbäm

: hydrogen bomb