atom bombs
Fission-powered explosives
Atom bombs are nuclear weapons that release enormous destructive energy through atomic fission—the splitting of uranium or plutonium nuclei.
The term evokes the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, the only wartime use of nuclear weapons.
Today "nuclear weapons" is the standard term, with atom bomb sounding dated or emphatic: They're sitting on enough atom bombs to destroy the world ten times over.
- HiroshimaFirst nuclear-struck city
- Trinity testInitial nuclear weapon explosion
- test siteLocation for experiments
- nuclearOf atomic energy
- Manhattan ProjectClandestine atomic weapons program
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Non-WMD military equipment
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Small explosive novelties
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Emblems of truce
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