Meaning of atomic bomb in English

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  1. Noun

    atomic bomb

    Definitions

    1. 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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  • « The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul. »
    Herbert Hoover
  • « When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb. »
    J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • « The atomic bomb made the prospect of future war unendurable. It has led us up those last few steps to the mountain pass and beyond there is a different country. »
    J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • « World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism. »
    Stephen Ambrose
  • « I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed. »
    Albert Einstein

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