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/eɪtʃ-bɑm/ Listen

H-bomb

noun

A nuclear weapon that releases atomic energy by union of light (hydrogen) nuclei at high temperatures to form helium. Synonyms: fusion bomb, hydrogen bomb, thermonuclear bomb.

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"H-bomb" Quotes from Famous Books

... wait their time, until he won't know when to expect it—and then they'll drop an H-bomb on him, if they have to. That's faster ...

— Pursuit • Lester del Rey

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... outside of the museum are a number of large exhibits. These include the Boeing B-52B jet bomber that dropped the United States' last air burst H-bomb in 1962, and a 280-mm (11 inches) Atomic cannon, once America's most powerful field artillery. Also found in this area is a Navy TA-7C (a modified A-7B) Corsair II fighter-bomber, a veteran of the Vietnam War. Many other nuclear weapons systems, ...

— Trinity [Atomic Test] Site - The 50th Anniversary of the Atomic Bomb • The National Atomic Museum

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... blastoff, the generators powered by the rocket-engines had better be able to take over, because if the magnetic field collapsed and that fifty-kilo chunk of negative-proton matter came in contact with natural positive-proton matter, an old-fashioned H-bomb would be a firecracker to what would happen. Just one hundred kilos of pure, two-hundred ...

— The Answer • Henry Beam Piper

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... firing his pistol within inches of the loud-speakers and it sounded like an H-bomb going off. She grabbed my wrist and dragged me toward a ...

— Lone Star Planet • Henry Beam Piper and John Joseph McGuire

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