Meanings
plural atom bombs
- Synonym of atomic bomb.
"A jet plane with an atom bomb is standing by."
1957, Sydney J. Bounds, The Robot Brains, London: Digit Books, page 1432 more examples
Everywhere the atom bombs are dropping / It's the end of all humanity / No more time for last-minute shopping / It's time to face your final destiny
1986, "Weird Al" Yankovic, “Christmas at Ground Zero”, in Polka Party!"You play about with democracy, you play about and invite a dictator. In Russia it has never been possible to do anything worthwhile without a strong hand. Stalin transformed it from a country of wooden plows into a country of the atom bomb. That says it all."
1989 July 6 [1988 December], Dmitriy Volkogonov, anonymous quotee, “Triumph and Tragedy: A Portrait of I.V. Stalin”, in JPRS Report: Soviet Union, number 043, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Moscow, Oktyabr, No 12, translation of original in Russian, →OCLC, page 217, column 1Synonyms: atomic bomb
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of atomic bomb.
More synonyms by meaning
nouna 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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