How to Use hydrogen bomb in a Sentence

hydrogen bomb

noun
  • There was a month in Spain to tell the tale of a missing hydrogen bomb.
    — Jim Buchta, Star Tribune, 25 Aug. 2020
  • The test came less than two weeks after testing a hydrogen bomb.
    — Gabrielle Banks, Houston Chronicle, 19 Feb. 2018
  • America’s first hydrogen bomb test did not go according to plan.
    — Audra J. Wolfe, The New Republic, 30 June 2022
  • Is the not-sunrise the sort Coleridge might have seen through an opium haze, or a thing far worse, like a hydrogen bomb?
    — New York Times, 18 Feb. 2020
  • The hydrogen bomb really is like the genie which escaped from the bottle.
    — Paul Kennedy, WSJ, 31 Jan. 2020
  • The advent of the hydrogen bomb in 1953 saw the hands move 1 minute closer.
    — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Four hydrogen bombs and 100 tons of debris plummeted to the earth.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The previous resident of their house was a rocket topped with a four-megaton hydrogen bomb.
    — James A. Fussell, Kansas City Star, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The hydrogen bomb and China followed.
    — MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The great physicist saved the world only to usher in a more dangerous world of deadlier hydrogen bombs.
    — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 July 2023
  • The country is believed to have around twenty fission bombs and to be progressing along the path to a much larger hydrogen bomb.
    — The New York Review of Books, 18 Apr. 2019
  • North Korea likely has the ability to produce a small number of hydrogen bombs.
    — Siegfried S. Hecker, Foreign Affairs, 4 Dec. 2017
  • The Hiroshima atomic bomb caused such a firestorm, but today’s hydrogen bombs are much more powerful.
    — Max Tegmark, Time, 29 June 2023
  • Experts suspect the most recent, in September, was a hydrogen bomb.
    — David E. Sanger and William J. Broad, New York Times, 6 May 2018
  • The circles above show the blast radius of the Hiroshima atomic bomb compared with a modern hydrogen bomb.
    — Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Three years earlier, the boy wonder, then 23, had designed the world’s first hydrogen bomb, which brought the fury of the stars to Earth.
    — William J. Broad, New York Times, 19 May 2025
  • This atoll, home to hundreds of people, was where scientists first tested the hydrogen bomb in 1952.
    — Hart Rapaport, Scientific American, 4 Apr. 2022
  • In 1953, the Soviet Union had just tested its first hydrogen bomb.
    — Elizabeth Horkley, Quartz, 30 Oct. 2019
  • How does a modern hydrogen bomb compare to the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
    — Julia Franz, USA TODAY, 21 Oct. 2017
  • Most hydrogen bombs are rated in megatons, the equivalent of 1,000 kilotons.
    — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 7 Feb. 2018
  • On Sunday, Kim Jong-Un said the country had tested a hydrogen bomb that could be attached to a missile.
    — Marco Santana, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 Sep. 2017
  • However, the invention of the hydrogen bomb also led to breakthroughs in nuclear fusion.
    — Matthew S Williams, Interesting Engineering, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Much of Oppenheimer’s life after Los Alamos had to do with the question of whether to develop the hydrogen bomb.
    — Charles Seife, Scientific American, 2 Aug. 2023
  • When it was finally brought ashore, the bomb was put on display for the press—the first public showing of a hydrogen bomb—just to prove that everything was finally under control.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 3 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • On September 3rd Mrs Ri was back, claiming the regime had tested a hydrogen bomb (see article).
    — The Economist, 7 Sep. 2017
  • Benny Safdie, who plays Edward Teller (now known as the father of the hydrogen bomb), studied nuclear physics in high school.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2024
  • In 1953, the Soviet Union conducted a secret test of its first hydrogen bomb.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2020
  • December 12 - North Korea state media says the country has added the hydrogen bomb to its arsenal.
    — CNN, 12 Sep. 2021
  • The Russian state nuclear agency Rosatom has released 59-year-old video footage of the world’s largest hydrogen bomb being tested.
    — oregonlive, 28 Aug. 2020

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