The Collaborative International Dictionary
H-bomb \H"-bomb`\ ([=a]ch"b[o^]mb`) n. The hydrogen bomb, a thermonuclear weapon that releases atomic energy by union of hydrogen nuclei at high temperatures to form helium. The force of its explosion may range from one to hundreds of megatons of TNT equivalent.
Syn: hydrogen bomb, fusion bomb, thermonuclear bomb.
Wiktionary
n. hydrogen bomb
Usage examples of "h-bomb".
H-bombs, and botulinus toxin, and military bacteria, and small but crucial objects like the remote-controlled switches which actuate the firing-circuits in missiles.
Here, for the last century-and-a-half, I have directed my operatives in the slow elaboration of my grand strategy, first conceived aboard the Bellerophon, whereof the time has now arrived to commence the execution: a project beside which Jena, Austerlitz, Vim, Marengo, the 18th Brumaire, even the original Revolution, are as our ancient 18-Pounders to an H-bomb, or my old field-glass to the Mount Palomar reflector: I mean the New, the Second Revolution, an utterly novel revolution.
To that, Ragle had said that when World War Three began and the H-bombs started falling, their first warning would be the conelrad signal on the TV set.
Have a shiny new General Electronics H-bomb shelter in your back yard or be slaughtered.
The H-bomb (hydrogen bomb), first tested in 1952, is a fusion rather than fission device, joining the nuclei of hydrogen atoms together in an uncontrolled nuclear reaction.
There are three types of nuclear devices, the atomic bomb, the hydrogen or H-bomb, and the pure-fusion bomb.
Terra was supposed to have an absolute ban against using H-bombs on people.
But there are lots of other ways to die besides H-bombs, some of them much nastier than blast or radiation burns.
Listen, friends, H-bombs and fallout are going to be the very least of your worries.
That's just a sample and I'll pass on-but please note its beautiful simplicity compared with H-bombs and ICBMs.
The Nyjord ships carry enough H-bombs to turn the entire planet into an atomic pile.
Particularly since I plan to drop some H-bombs on Dis myself--if we can't turn off the war.
Yes, I agree that the Bugs’ planet possibly could have been plastered with H-bombs until it was surfaced with radioactive glass.
An H-bomb with circuitry ruined is not a bomb, is just big tub of lithium deuteride that can't do anything but crash.
A soft, dreaming, kindly idealist who would naturally leave the Service and become instead a prison visitor, interest himself in youth clubs, march with the H-bomb marchers, eat nut cutlets, try and change the world for the better?