Examples of H-bomb in a Sentence

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If dragons are nukes, Vhagar is an H-bomb while everyone else still has lesser A-bombs. Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 20 June 2026 Attempts to find work elsewhere were blocked at every turn, despite support from multiple Nobel laureates, Groves and even H-bomb enthusiast Edward Teller. Kc Cole, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2024 The specter of trauma has long hung over Godzilla, a creature unearthed from slumber by H-bomb testing in the 1954 original. Esther Zuckerman, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2024 By using fusion to power a thermonuclear reaction, H-bomb explosions can be massively more powerful than fission reactions, like that in Gadget. Kelsey Atherton, Vulture, 26 July 2023 And this is the H-bomb, uh, several magnitudes more powerful than the atomic bomb. Quartz Staff, Quartz, 3 Mar. 2023 If neither the publication of H-bomb secrets nor the release of the Pentagon Papers irreparably harmed national security, then what secrets gone feral will? Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2014

Word History

First Known Use

1950, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of H-bomb was in 1950

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“H-bomb.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/H-bomb. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.

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H-bomb

noun
ˈāch-ˌbäm

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