How to Use atomic bomb in a Sentence

atomic bomb

noun
  • The second atomic bomb was not the first.
    — Greg Mitchell august 8, Literary Hub, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Then there is the so, so brief mention of the atomic bomb in this book.
    — Paul Kennedy, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Kids are taught to duck and hide under their desks in case of an atomic bomb.
    — Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2022
  • Our atomic bomb is the power to say no to the great powers.
    — CNN Money, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Our atomic bomb is the power to say no to the great powers.
    — Jon Gambrell, Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2026
  • For scale—that’s a force 150 times greater than an atomic bomb.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Nov. 2022
  • This was that atomic bomb that went off so many years before with Flag.
    — Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2021
  • The Laffey got patched up and went on to be part of the atomic bomb tests.
    — Marie Sapirie, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
  • The first modern secret was the atomic bomb.
    — MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
  • And it can all be traced back to the effort to develop the atomic bomb.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 19 July 2023
  • But evidence of the atomic bomb lives on in the bones of victims of the blast.
    — Julissa Treviño, Smithsonian, 3 May 2018
  • While the movie is very much about the development of the atomic bomb.
    — Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 7 July 2022
  • North Korea's sixth and latest atomic bomb test was its largest to date.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 15 Sep. 2017
  • The world will note that the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima….
    — Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 31 Mar. 2022
  • Because really, the atomic bomb is the thing that changed the world.
    — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 31 Aug. 2017
  • But one thing people agree on is that the fire raids were probably worse than the atomic bomb.
    — John Ismay, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020
  • This year marks the 75th anniversary of the first atomic bomb.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 10 Aug. 2020
  • Eighty years since the first and only time the atomic bomb was used for warfare on Aug 6.
    — Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Groves was told that the decision about whether to use another atomic bomb would be made the next day.
    — National Geographic, 4 Aug. 2020
  • Windscale’s two piles had been hastily built during the British atomic bomb project.
    — Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Like the advent of the gun, the crossbow, and the machine gun, the atomic bomb changed the shape of warfare.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 23 Jan. 2020
  • The atomic bomb had the ability to alter and change the course of history.
    — Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 7 July 2022
  • The virus was second only to the atomic bomb as to what Americans feared most.
    — Sean B. Carroll, Scientific American, 8 Nov. 2020
  • The idea being that when an atomic bomb lands in your city, you are vaporized instantly.
    — Kevin Dickinson, Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The town was critical to the development of the first atomic bomb.
    — Jim Clash, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2022
  • To the Japanese, the atomic bomb really didn’t seem a whole lot worse than that.
    — Chicago Tribune, 8 May 2026
  • Two years later, it was confirmed that the director’s next project would be a biopic on the father of the atomic bomb.
    — J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 21 Nov. 2024
  • When will Cameron’s film about the atomic bombs begin production and be released?
    — R. Daniel Foster, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • But the birth of the atomic bomb still looms in the tiny town of Los Alamos—and that will likely never change.
    — Paul Ross, Popular Mechanics, 27 July 2018
  • The film is about the creation of the atomic bomb during World War II.
    — Samantha Stutsman, Peoplemag, 24 Apr. 2023

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