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  • noun An extremely powerful bomb, especially the atomic bomb or hydrogen bomb.

Etymologies

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super- +‎ bomb

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Examples

  • "You mean some kind of superbomb orbiting the earth and timed to blow up soon?"

    The Quest Ahern, Jerry 1981

  • Peierls and his colleague Otto Frisch had become convinced of the possibility of making a superbomb out of a concentrated isotope of uranium.

    Human Smoke Nicholson Baker 2008

  • This one bomb, the 1954 superbomb, contained less than one ton of nuclear explosive.

    Linus Pauling - Nobel Lecture 1962

  • On January 31, 1950 President Truman overturned the AEC and directed them "to continue its work on all forms of atomic weapons, including the so-called hydrogen or superbomb."

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science EMJ none@example.com 2010

  • Each Loser is introduced with a comic rendering of their likeness, a handful of mildly implausible stunts keep things visually interesting, and then there's the egg-shaped superbomb that Max refers to as "The Snuke".

    Something Awful The Crazy Eights 2010

  • Since the best the Nigerian could do was burn his hands and legs with his superbomb my answer would be yes, I feel quite safe.

    Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions 2009

  • He explained that he didn't trust Oppenheimer partly because of his consistent opposition to the superbomb.

    The Long Tail 2008

  • "Over the following years, the analogy took on a life of its own and spawned further analogies: large-scale volcanic eruptions turned into 'supereruptions,' and 'supervolcanoes' became natural equivalents for the human-made 'superbomb,' the hydrogen bomb.

    James Warren: This Week in Magazines: Online Dating, Erupting Volcanoes and Dick Cheney 2009

  • The new superbomb, as he described it, was "the most terrible and barbaric weapon that has ever come into the hand of man.

    Hoover and Truman - Introduction by Richard Norton Smith 1992

  • "Over the following years, the analogy took on a life of its own and spawned further analogies: large-scale volcanic eruptions turned into 'supereruptions,' and 'supervolcanoes' became natural equivalents for the human-made 'superbomb,' the hydrogen bomb.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2009

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