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  • All three men made foolhardy mistakes — in some cases transporting their atom-bomb materials through functioning border points, and in others widely advertising their efforts to obtain and sell nuclear materials.

    A Smuggler’s Story 2008

  • All three men made foolhardy mistakes — in some cases transporting their atom-bomb materials through functioning border points, and in others widely advertising their efforts to obtain and sell nuclear materials.

    A Smuggler’s Story 2008

  • Because at some future date, if the Saudis are still supporting our enemies, there'll probably be an atom-bomb detonated in lower Manhattan that was financed by Saudi money.

    Alive or Dead? Steven Barnes 2009

  • How he does this with all the atom-bomb security is not explained.

    Buzzine » Anti-Matter and Me 2009

  • It is written by Gwyneth Cravens, a “novelist and former New Yorker magazine fiction editor … a sometime antinuclear activist … and a determined organic vegetable gardener who spent her childhood in 1950s New Mexico having atom-bomb nightmares.”

    Do Not Read This If You Are Anti-Nuclear Energy - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007

  • The result was that significant intelligence, from atom-bomb details to plans for postwar Europe, reached Moscow from spies in U.S. government departments.

    Michael Kaplan: HUAC: Americanism 2009

  • It is written by Gwyneth Cravens, a “novelist and former New Yorker magazine fiction editor … a sometime antinuclear activist … and a determined organic vegetable gardener who spent her childhood in 1950s New Mexico having atom-bomb nightmares.”

    Do Not Read This If You Are Anti-Nuclear Energy - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007

  • "Israel has said a strike on Iran will be" unavoidable "if the Islamic regime continues to press ahead with alleged plans for building an atom-bomb."

    We're one cowboy away from the end of cvilized life on earth. 2008

  • Postal Service's plan to issue a commemorative atom-bomb stamp caused a diplomatic incident with Japan.

    The Innocents Of Wwii? 2008

  • The new atom-bomb stamp will make cooperation even more problematic.

    The Innocents Of Wwii? 2008

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