nuclear bomb

English

Little Boy and Fat Man, the two nuclear bombs used against Japan in World War II

Pronunciation

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Noun

nuclear bomb (plural nuclear bombs)

1. A nuclear weapon.
   • 1988, Morrissey (lyrics and music), “Everyday Is Like Sunday”, in Viva Hate:

     In the seaside town that they forgot to bomb / Come, come, come, nuclear bomb

Synonyms

• A-bomb
• atom bomb
• atomic bomb
• nuke (slang)

Hyponyms

• dirty bomb
• fission bomb
• fusion bomb
• gun-type bomb
• H-bomb
• hydrogen bomb
• implosion bomb
• isomer bomb
• N-bomb
• neutron bomb
• plutonium bomb
• thermonuclear bomb
• uranium bomb

Translations

nuclear bomb

• Albanian: bombë bërthamore f
• Arabic: قُنْبُلَة نَوَوِيَّة f (qunbula nawawiyya)
• Armenian: միջուկային ռումբ (miǰukayin ṙumb)
• Azerbaijani: nüvə bombası
• Belarusian: я́дзерная бо́мба f (jádzjernaja bómba), а́тамная бо́мба f (átamnaja bómba)
• Bulgarian: я́дрена бо́мба f (jádrena bómba), а́томна бо́мба f (átomna bómba)
• Burmese: အဏုမြူဗုံး (my) (a.nu.mrubum:)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 核彈 / 核弹 (hédàn), 核子彈 / 核子弹 (hézǐdàn)

• Czech: jaderná bomba f
• Danish: atombombe (da) c
• Dutch: kernbom (nl) f
• Esperanto: nuklea bombo
• Estonian: tuumapomm (et)
• Faroese: kjarnorkubumba
• Finnish: ydinpommi (fi)
• French: bombe nucléaire f, bombe atomique (fr) f
• Georgian: ატომური ბომბი (aṭomuri bombi)
• German: Atombombe (de) f, A-Bombe (de) f
• Hungarian: atombomba (hu)
• Icelandic: kjarnorkusprengja (is) f, atómsprengja f
• Ido: atomobombo (io)
• Irish: buama núicléach m
• Italian: bomba nucleare f
• Japanese: 核爆弾 (ja) (かくばくだん, kakubakudan)
• Korean: 핵폭탄(核爆彈) (ko) (haekpoktan)
• Latvian: kodolbumba f, atombumba f
• Lithuanian: atominė bomba f
• Macedonian: нуклеа́рна бомба f (nukleárna bomba), атомска бомба f (atomska bomba)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: atombombe (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: atombombe f

• Persian: بمب هسته ای (bomb-e haste'i)
• Plautdietsch: Atommbomm f
• Polish: bomba jądrowa f
• Portuguese: bomba nuclear f, bomba atómica f (Portugal), bomba atômica f (Brazil)
• Romanian: bombă nucleară (ro) f, bombă atomică (ro) f
• Russian: я́дерная бо́мба f (jádernaja bómba), а́томная бо́мба (ru) f (átomnaja bómba)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: нуклеарна бомба f

  Roman: nuklearna bomba f

• Slovak: jadrová bomba f
• Slovene: jedrska bomba f
• Spanish: bomba nuclear f
• Swedish: atombomb (sv) c
• Thai: ระเบิดนิวเคลียร์ (rá-bə̀ət-niu-kliia)
• Turkish: atom bombası (tr)
• Ukrainian: я́дерна бо́мба f (jáderna bómba), а́томна бо́мба (uk) f (átomna bómba)

See also

• doomsday bomb
• Hiroshima
• Nagasaki
• nuclear war

(elements that may be used as bomb material):

• uranium
• neptunium
• plutonium