Atomic Bomb Definition

noun
An explosive weapon of great destructive power derived from the rapid release of energy in the fission of heavy atomic nuclei, especially of uranium-235 or plutonium-239.
American Heritage
An extremely destructive type of bomb, the power of which results from the immense quantity of energy suddenly released when a very rapid chain reaction of nuclear fission is set off by neutron bombardment in the atoms of a charge of plutonium (primarily Pu-239) or uranium (U-235)
Webster's New World

A nuclear weapon that obtains its destructive energy from nuclear fission.

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Noun

Singular:
atomic bomb
Plural:
atomic-bombs

Atomic Bomb Sentence Examples

  • Only three days later, the United States dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki.

  • He wasn't about to believe Death until he saw Katie for himself.  A minute after midnight on the fourth day, if Katie wasn't standing beside him, he'd need the knowledge of where to set off the atomic bomb within him.

  • The answer to the question has much to do with the question of why the Germans never tried to make an atomic bomb.

  • The play is set in June 1945, a month before the testing of the first atomic bomb.

  • Coincidentally, he also assisted in building the first atomic bomb.

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