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What does atomic bomb mean?

atomic bomb

(= atom bomb) a nuclear weapon in which enormous energy is released by nuclear fission (splitting the nuclei of a heavy element like uranium 235 or plutonium 239)

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Science produced the atomic bomb.
The atomic bomb is the offspring of 20th century physics.
The atomic bomb destroyed the entire city of Hiroshima.
The atomic bomb is a grave threat to mankind.
An atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in 1945.
The first atomic bomb was dropped on Japan.

News and current affairs

The energy derived from splitting uranium and plutonium atoms was originally used for the ultimate weapon, the atomic bomb.
We need something on the scale of the Manhattan Project (which created the atomic bomb), or the Apollo Program (which put a man on the moon).
Solutions such as these are not explored, however, because they are not within obviously immediate reach, as the atomic bomb and the lunar landing were.
But the documents that Libya turned over to the International Atomic Energy Agency, and subsequently to the US, show that Pakistan supplied more than just equipment for making bomb fuel.

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