Examples of H-bomb in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web His pitch: We should all be forewarned if the enemy’s H-bombs are heading our way. Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2024 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 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 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 11 Oct. 2024.

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H-bomb

noun
ˈāch-ˌbäm

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