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nuclear bomb

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nuclear bomb [′nü·klē·ər ′bäm]
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After making a nuclear bomb [in violation of] the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, they justify it by suggesting that they are the best and can do whatever they want.
A Hiroshima-size nuclear bomb packs the same explosive punch as about 13,500 metric tons of TNT and can cause urban fires that release more than 1,000 times the energy of the bomb itself.
LET'S SAY YOU'VE caught a suspect and you're sure he's a terrorist, and you're sure there's a nuclear bomb somewhere in Manhattan, and you're sure he knows where it is, and you're sure this particular terrorist has been trained to resist torture just long enough that you could never get the true location of the bomb out of him in time.
 
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