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Meanings of plutonium bomb in English
Portuguese
bomba atômica Catalan
bomba de plutoni A nuclear weapon in which enormous energy is released by nuclear fission (splitting the nuclei of a heavy element like uranium 235 or plutonium 239)
Usage of plutonium bomb in English
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As confidence in the plutonium bomb design grew it was decided not to use Jumbo.
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The plutonium bomb worked by compressing the plutonium into a critical mass which sustains a chain reaction.
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Three days later, a plutonium bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, killing 80,000.
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The Nagasaki weapon was a plutonium bomb, similar to the Trinity device, and it was nicknamed Fat Man.
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Now Lina was asking Stanley about his work in Japan; Hiroshima was a uranium bomb and Nagasaki a plutonium bomb.
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Project leaders decided a test of the plutonium bomb was essential before it could be used as a weapon of war.
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In addition, thousands more suffered from radiation poisoning when the United States dropped a uranium and a plutonium bomb on the island in 1945.
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At 11:02am on August 9th 1945 a US B-29 bomber dropped a plutonium bomb on Nagasaki, killing about 74 thousand people.
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Three days after that attack on Hiroshima, the US dropped a plutonium bomb on the city of Nagasaki, killing about 80,000 people.
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Fuel for North Korea's plutonium bombs has been made in a reactor that is large and easily monitored.
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Then he'd designed the reactor at Khushab that produced fuel to move to the next level- aplutoniumbomb.
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Just one small query - was the bomb dropped on Nagasaki in 1945 an atomic bomb or a Plutonium bomb?
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The isolated east Asian state is believed to have tested plutonium bombs in its previous two such blasts, in 2006 and 2009.