How to Use atomic bomb in a Sentence

atomic bomb

noun
  • The film is about the creation of the atomic bomb during World War II.
    Samantha Stutsman, Peoplemag, 22 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • In the third act of Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb sits in a darkened hall and watches a slide show of what his gadget hath wrought at ground zero.
    Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Three days later, the US dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki.
    Ashraya Gupta, Scientific American, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Here is the narrative on the atomic bomb: It was created out of urgency.
    Krista Stevens, Longreads, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Economic sanctions were, in effect, the atomic bomb of their day.
    Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein, The New Republic, 13 Dec. 2022
  • The film tells the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer, who along with a team of scientists, developed and designed the atomic bomb.
    Lisa Respers France, CNN, 6 Mar. 2024
  • But then the atomic bomb exploded in a blinding flash that shook the ground and obliterated buildings.
    Andrew Selsky, ajc, 26 Sep. 2022
  • The Little Boy and the Fat Man were atomic bombs, or fission bombs, which set off a chain reaction of nuclear fission.
    Popular Mechanics, 26 May 2023
  • The Irish actor, 47, has been praised for embodying the titular role in Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan’s retelling of the creation of the atomic bomb.
    Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 25 Oct. 2023
  • History buffs will recognize that as the location for the first atomic bomb test.
    Geoffrey Morrison, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Send your history buff a piece of America's past, everything from the day Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to the moment the first atomic bomb came to be.
    Amanda Garrity, Good Housekeeping, 16 May 2022
  • 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
  • Each of the two bombs had an explosive power about 100 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 23 Mar. 2022

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