What is "the bomb"

n. (alternative form of the bomb English) ''(as in a nuclear bomb)''

n. 1 (context informal English) The atomic bomb; the capability to launch a nuclear attack. Often capitalized. 2 (context slang English) A success; something excellent.

The Bomb may refer to:

• A nuclear weapon, from "the atomic bomb"
• The Bomb (film), PBS-TV documentary about the history of nuclear weapons
• The Bomb, BBC radio documentary by D. G. Bridson on consequences of nuclear bombing of Britain
• The Bomb, history written by Howard Zinn
• The Bomb, a 1908 novel by Frank Harris about the Haymarket Riot
• The Bomb (novel), a 1995 young adult novel by Theodore Taylor
• "The Bomb", fourth episode of the 1966 Doctor Who serial The Ark
• The Bomb! (These Sounds Fall Into My Mind), a 1995 song by The Bucketheads
• The Bomb, the 2007 New Young Pony Club single
• The Bomb (band), a Chicago punk band featuring Jeff Pezzati of Naked Raygun

The Bomb is a 1995 novel by Theodore Taylor written to protest against nuclear testing on Bikini Atoll after the natives are forced to move. It was first published by Harcourt Children's Books in October 1995. The book won the 1996 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction.

The Bomb is a play by Kevin Dyer, focusing on the IRA Brighton bombing of 1984.

The Bomb originally started in 1999, formed by Jeff Pezzati of Naked Raygun. Despite the band's quiet beginnings, Steve Albini ( Shellac, Big Black, recordist extraordinaire) took an interest in Pezzati's reemergence to the music scene and recorded their first two records, 'Arming' and 'Torch Songs'. Which included the original line-up of John Maxwell (The Mangos) on guitar and Paul Garcia on drums and backing vocals (Death and Memphis),with the addition of Steev Custer (Death and Memphis) taking over bass duties. In 2002, Jeff Dean ( Noise By Numbers, Explode and Make Up, All Eyes West & Dead Ending) replaced Maxwell on guitar,and in 2003 Custer and Garcia were replaced by Pete Mittler ( The Methadones, Naked Raygun), Mike Soucy ( The Methadones, Jetlag). This has been the definitive line up of the band.

The Bomb is a 2015 American documentary film about the history of nuclear weapons, from theoretical scientific considerations at the very beginning, to their first use on August 6, 1945, to their global political implications in the present-day. The two-hour PBS film was written and directed by Rushmore DeNooyer, who noted the project took a year and a half to complete, since much of the film footage and images was only recently declassified by the United States Department of Defense. According to DeNooyer, “It wouldn’t take very many bombs to really change life on Earth, ... The idea that there are thousands of them sitting around is pretty scary. I don’t think people today realize that. They don’t think about it. I don’t think they are scared. But in a way, they should be.” Mark Dawidziak, of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, summarized the film as follows: "The Bomb moves swiftly to cover Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Cold War, the arms race, the Red Scare, the witch hunt, the Cuban Missile Crisis, test-ban treaties, the "Star Wars" initiative, the anti-nuke movement, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of new nuclear threats." According to historian Richard Rhodes, “The invention [of 'The Bomb'] was a millennial change in human history: for the first time, we were now capable of our own destruction, as a species.”