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- noun An extremely powerful
bomb , especially theatomic bomb orhydrogen bomb .
Etymologies
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Examples
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"You mean some kind of superbomb orbiting the earth and timed to blow up soon?"
The Quest Ahern, Jerry 1981
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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
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This one bomb, the 1954 superbomb, contained less than one ton of nuclear explosive.
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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
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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
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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.
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He explained that he didn't trust Oppenheimer partly because of his consistent opposition to the superbomb.
The Long Tail 2008
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"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
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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
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"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.
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