Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A hydrogen bomb.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The
hydrogen bomb , a thermonuclear weapon that releases atomic energy by union of hydrogen nuclei at high temperatures to form helium. The force of its explosion may range from one to hundreds of megatons of TNT equivalent.
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- noun
hydrogen bomb
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a nuclear weapon that releases atomic energy by union of light (hydrogen) nuclei at high temperatures to form helium
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Examples
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Of course, the Japanese people also have had a disastrous experience with nuclear weapons -- not only in 1945, when the U.S. government destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki with atomic bombs, but in 1954, when a U.S. government H-bomb test showered a Japanese fishing boat, the Lucky Dragon, with deadly radioactive fallout, and a vast nuclear disarmament movement began.
Lawrence Wittner: How Japan Learned About "Nuclear Safety" Lawrence Wittner 2011
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Warner Brothers/Everett Collection 'The Town' Or perhaps, in an effort to capture the apocalyptic stakes said to be at issue, the Congressmen might have screened a bit of Slim Pickens in "Dr. Strangelove," who as the pilot of a B-52 steels his crew to drop an H-bomb: "Heck," he says, "I reckon you wouldn't even be human bein's if you didn't have some pretty strong personal feelin's about nuclear combat."
Searching for Cinematic Inspiration Eric Felten 2011
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Scientific ideas are on shakier ground because they have a practical component (see the cases about publishing the science behind the H-bomb).
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Meanwhile, about 85 miles from the test site -- and also outside the danger zone --radioactive ash from the H-bomb test fell on a small Japanese fishing boat, the Lucky Dragon.
Lawrence Wittner: How Japan Learned About "Nuclear Safety" Lawrence Wittner 2011
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During their fourth time warp, Sawyer, Juliet, Miles, Charlotte and Faraday meet the Others (aka Hostiles) and their leaky H-bomb, Jughead.
'Lost': When are we? 2009
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Sasha and Doug, fine job of smuggling in the old H-bomb!
The Volokh Conspiracy » Harvard Overseer and Director Elections 2010
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He talks about Harvard (dropping the H-bomb, as they say).
The Volokh Conspiracy » But Isn’t It a Bit Hard to Predict With a 7-Year-Old? 2010
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During the 1980s, Edward Teller—father of the H-bomb—promoted a radical idea for missile defense: shoot down Soviet ICBMs using high-energy X-ray lasers powered by a nuclear explosion in space.
The Omega Theory Mark Alpert 2011
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During the 1980s, Edward Teller—father of the H-bomb—promoted a radical idea for missile defense: shoot down Soviet ICBMs using high-energy X-ray lasers powered by a nuclear explosion in space.
The Omega Theory Mark Alpert 2011
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The H-bomb is powered by nuclear fusion - it is a nuclear fusion reactor.
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