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Meanings of h-bomb in English

Portuguese
h-bomba
Catalan
bomba termonuclear

A nuclear weapon that releases atomic energy by union of light (hydrogen) nuclei at high temperatures to form helium.

h-bomba
Usage of h-bomb in English
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It's like an H-bomb that Richard and I toss into America's consciousness.
Black is the new white
2
When an H-bomb is detonated, chemical, nuclear and thermonuclear explosions succeed each other within milliseconds.
News.com.au
3
The boy said, "That's where the soldiers play when no H-bombs are dropping."
The new yorker
4
What if there's an H-bomb on the damn thing?
Riding rockets
5
Imagine the simultaneous explosion of a million H-bombs.
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
6
Dr. Tuck also worked on the H-bomb.
The new yorker
7
I've always considered walloping your kid the H-bomb of childcare-it'sin the arsenal but shouldn't be deployed.
The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow ...
8
The latest it's gotten: two minutes till, during an exchange of US and Soviet H-bomb tests in 1953.
Wired
9
About the H-bomb tests, the atolls.
Shutter Island
10
What I didn't realize, at the time, was what a human H-bomb this man Murell would turn into.
Four-Day Planet
11
He remained at Los Alamos after the war and played a seminal role in the development of the H-bomb.
The Irish Times
12
Because if the wrong people find out about Leviathan, they'll just drop an H-bomb on him and kill him.
The illuminatus! trilogy
13
All the same, a politician of his talent and experience knows that invoking Hitler is the H-bomb of his profession.
The Guardian
14
The H-Bomb & Sports Illustrated symbolize our hopes & fears, too, but not in the way Henry Luce was evidently thinking.
The new yorker
15
Somebody on the platform began firing his pistol within inches of the loud-speakers and it sounded like an H-bomb going off.
Lone Star Planet
16
Henderson caught him flush, twice, with his lethal over-hand right, a punch so famous that it has its own nickname: the H-Bomb.
The Irish Times
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Translations for h-bomb
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