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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.

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        Usage of h-bomb in English
        1
        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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        H-bomb through the time