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In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes a blitzed Pacific island seem like an Eden. The damage is far greater than photographs can show.
Wilfred Burchett

Meaning of "atomic bomb" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ATOMIC BOMB

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ATOMIC BOMB

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Atomic bomb is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ATOMIC BOMB MEAN IN ENGLISH?

atomic bomb

Nuclear weapon

A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission or a combination of fission and fusion. Both reactions release vast quantities of energy from relatively small amounts of matter. The first fission bomb test released the same amount of energy as approximately 20,000 tons of TNT. The first thermonuclear bomb test released the same amount of energy as approximately 10,000,000 tons of TNT. A thermonuclear weapon weighing little more than 2,400 pounds can produce an explosive force comparable to the detonation of more than 1.2 million tons of TNT. Thus, even a small nuclear device no larger than traditional bombs can devastate an entire city by blast, fire, and radiation. Nuclear weapons are considered weapons of mass destruction, and their use and control have been a major focus of international relations policy since their debut. Two nuclear weapons have been used in the course of warfare, both times by the United States near the end of World War II. On 6 August 1945, a uranium gun-type fission bomb code-named "Little Boy" was detonated over the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ATOMIC BOMB

atomic age
atomic clock
atomic cocktail
atomic energy
Atomic Energy Authority
Atomic Energy Commission
atomic heat
atomic mass
atomic mass unit
atomic number
atomic physicist
atomic physics
atomic pile
atomic power
atomic power station
atomic reactor
atomic structure
atomic theory
atomic volume
atomic warfare

WORDS THAT END LIKE ATOMIC BOMB

atom bomb
bath bomb
bomb
car bomb
cherry bomb
cluster bomb
dirty bomb
flying bomb
hydrogen bomb
like a bomb
logic bomb
neutron bomb
nuclear bomb
petrol bomb
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smart bomb
smoke bomb
stink bomb
the bomb
time bomb
water bomb

Synonyms and antonyms of atomic bomb in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «atomic bomb» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ATOMIC BOMB

Find out the translation of atomic bomb to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of atomic bomb from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «atomic bomb» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

原子弹
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

bomba atómica
570 millions of speakers

English

atomic bomb
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

परमाणु बम
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

قنبلة ذرية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

атомная бомба
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

bomba atômica
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

আনবিক বোমা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

bombe atomique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

bom atom
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Atombombe
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

原子爆弾
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

원자 폭탄
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Bom atom
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bom nguyên tử
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அணு குண்டு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

आण्विक बॉम्ब
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

atom bombası
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

bomba atomica
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

bomba atomowa
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

атомна бомба
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

bombă atomică
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

ατομική βόμβα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

atoombom
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

atombomb
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

atombombe
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of atomic bomb

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ATOMIC BOMB»

The term «atomic bomb» is quite widely used and occupies the 49.102 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ATOMIC BOMB» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about atomic bomb

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10 QUOTES WITH «ATOMIC BOMB»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word atomic bomb.
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Stephen Ambrose
World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.
2
Wilfred Burchett
In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes a blitzed Pacific island seem like an Eden. The damage is far greater than photographs can show.
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Graham Hawkes
Pressure hulls collapse at the speed of sound. Once that starts, you're inside your own little imploding atomic bomb, and you're gone.
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Laura Hillenbrand
Fatigue is what we experience, but it is what a match is to an atomic bomb.
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Herbert Hoover
The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.
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Lee Iacocca
I always go back to Harry Truman: Should we drop an atomic bomb to save 100,000 lives? That's a hell of a decision to make. Did he make that decision by himself? No, he had advisers.
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Annie Jacobsen
In 1957, with the arms race in full swing, the Department of Defense had decided it was just a matter of time before an airplane transporting an atomic bomb would crash on American soil, unleashing a radioactive disaster the likes of which the world had never seen.
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Annie Jacobsen
To understand how black projects began, and how they continue to function today, one must start with the creation of the atomic bomb. The men who ran the Manhattan Project wrote the rules about black operations. The atomic bomb was the mother of all black projects, and it is the parent from which all black operations have sprung.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.
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Issey Miyake
I did not want to be labelled 'the designer who survived the atomic bomb,' and therefore I have always avoided questions about Hiroshima.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ATOMIC BOMB»

Discover the use of atomic bomb in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to atomic bomb and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Making of the Atomic Bomb
Richard Rhodes gives the definitive story of man’s most awesome discovery and invention.
Richard Rhodes, 2012
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Children of the Atomic Bomb: An American Physician's Memoir ...
Yamazaki's story is also one of striking juxtapositions, an account of a Japanese-American's encounter with racism, the story of a man who fought for his country while his parents were interned in a concentration camp in Arkansas.
James N. Yamazaki, 1995
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Hiroshima: Why America Dropped the Atomic Bomb
The bombing of Hiroshima was one of the pivotal events of the twentieth century, yet this controversial question remains unresolved.
Ronald Takaki, 1996
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The Making of the Indian Atomic Bomb: Science, Secrecy and ...
What explains the enthusiasm of the Indian public for nuclear power? This book is the first serious historical account of the development of India's nuclear programme and of how the bomb came to be made.
Itty Abraham, 1998
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How to Photograph an Atomic Bomb
How To Photograph an Atomic Bomb is a visually compelling documentation combining awe-inspiring photography and fascinating technical detail about the stories and techniques behind photography of the bomb.Author Peter Kuran's engrossing and ...
Peter Kuran, 2007
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The Manhattan Project: Making the Atomic Bomb
A history of the origins and development of the American atomic bomb program during WWII.
Francis George Gosling, 1999
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The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb: Hiroshima and ...
A clear and concise narrative of all the key elements of President Truman's most controversial decision leading to Japan's surrender.
Dennis D. Wainstock, 2013
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The Atomic Bomb Suppressed: American Censorship in Occupied ...
Swedish journalist and author Braw draws on declassified documents and interviews in Japan and the US to reveal how the US occupation authorities established elaborate systems of censorship and disinformation among the Japanese press, ...
Monica Braw, 1991
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The Atomic Bomb
Examines the development of the first atomic bombs and profiles J. Robert Oppenheimer, the director of the Manhattan Project.
Jennifer Fandel, 2007
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Brain Quest Preschool, revised 4th edition: The Birth of the ...
This groundbreaking collection of documents, essays, articles, and excerpts from histories, biographies, plays, novels, letters, and the oral histories of key eyewitnesses is the freshest, most exhaustive exploration yet of the topic.
Chris Welles Feder, Susan Bishay, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ATOMIC BOMB»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term atomic bomb is used in the context of the following news items.
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World Cup soccer fans take to Twitter to cast 5-2 USA win against …
Thousands more fell victim to radiation poisoning. Japanese Emperor Hirohito called the atomic bomb a “new and most cruel bomb.” Read the ... «New York Daily News, Jul 15»
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Oil dives as Greek vote shakes world markets
... want Iran to sharply curb its nuclear programme to make any push to acquire the atomic bomb all but impossible, in return for sanctions relief. «eNCA, Jul 15»
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Iran ambassador: Nuke deal could benefit Kabul
... for an Iranian atomic bomb or ending without an agreement that American officials have sometimes described as the only alternative to war. «Stars and Stripes, Jul 15»
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Atomic bomb exhibition in Washington
A visitor looks at items that belonged to a student and other atomic bomb victims at the “Hiroshima-Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Exhibition” at the ... «The Japan News, Jul 15»
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Iran atomic bomb probe may be completed in 2015: IAEA
Vienna (AFP) - A long-delayed investigation into whether Iran has sought to develop nuclear weapons could be completed by the end of the ... «Business Insider, Jul 15»
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Was HG Wells the first to think of the atom bomb?
You call it the "atomic bomb". HG Wells first imagined a uranium-based hand grenade that "would continue to explode indefinitely" in his 1914 ... «BBC News, Jul 15»
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The bomb: The end of the war
Though they didn't know it at the time, an American B-29 bomber had dropped the first atomic bomb to be used in warfare over Hiroshima. «SaukValley.com, Jul 15»
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Meyer Steinberg, of Melville, remembers working on the Manhattan …
On Monday, June 30, 2015, he talked about his contribution toward building the atomic bomb and helping to end the war. (Credit: Newsday ... «Newsday, Jul 15»
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The history of the bikini – from the atomic bomb to Beyoncé
Named after Bikini Atoll, the Pacific Ocean site famous for hosting the first atomic bomb test, Reard hoped his invention would be just as ... «BT.com, Jul 15»
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Back in the day, bikini debut was the bomb
United States detonating an atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll in Micronesia ... the first implosion-style atomic bomb, a type of bomb many were certain ... «Chicago Tribune, Jul 15»

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