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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
atomic bomb
noun
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▪ For comparison, the atomic bomb explosions that devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki were about 20 kilotons each.
▪ The atomic bomb had the great advantage of being cheaper than mass armies-and much quicker.
▪ The Enola Gay dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima at 8: 15 in the morning of August 6, 1945.
▪ Then came the successful test of the first atomic bomb.
▪ This impasse applied especially to the atomic bomb.
▪ This is the essence of an atomic bomb.
▪ U.S. policymakers eliminated both points, however, once the atomic bomb was tested.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
atomic bomb

Nuclear weapon \Nu"cle*ar wea"pon\, n. A weapon of great explosive power, such as an atomic bomb or a hydrogen bomb, which depends for most of its explosive power on the release of energy from within atomic nuclei by a nuclear reaction. A fission weapon or a fusion weapon. The term includes atomic shells for cannon.

Wiktionary
atomic bomb

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

WordNet
atomic bomb

n. 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) [syn: atom bomb, A-bomb, fission bomb, plutonium bomb]

Wikipedia
Atomic Bomb (album)

Atomic Bomb is the third album from the Filipino rock band, Rivermaya. It has 16 tracks and was released by BMG Records (Pilipinas) Inc. on 31 January 1997.

It was reported that the album had gone gold before it hit the stores on January 31. Basing on initial orders from Metro Manila record bars, BMG shipped out 25,000 cassettes. Major record bars on malls reported they were out of stock after a few days. In the Philippines, an album must sell 20,000 copies to be certified gold.

This is the last Rivermaya album with Bamboo Mañalac as lead singer.

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All the meals were Seth's favorites: Chef Boyardee spaghetti and hamburger, Chef Boyardee Noodle-O's and hamburger, and tomato soup with big chunks of hamburger rising out of the gelling liquid like baked Pacific atolls where generations of atomic bombs had been tested.