English
An early generation gravity bomb.
A mushroom cloud characteristic of an atomic bomb detonation.
Etymology
Coined by British science fiction author H. G. Wells in his 1914 novel The World Set Free.
Noun
atomic bomb (plural atomic bombs)
- A nuclear weapon that obtains its destructive energy from nuclear fission.
1914, Herbert George Wells, The World Set Free:The gaunt face hardened to grimness, and with both hands the bomb-thrower lifted the big atomic bomb from the box and steadied it against the side.
- Synonyms: atom bomb, A-bomb, fission bomb
Hypernyms
Coordinate terms
Translations
nuclear weapon
- Afrikaans: atoombom
- Arabic: قُنْبُلَة ذَرِّيَّة (qunbula ḏarriyya)
- Armenian: ատոմային ռումբ (atomayin ṙumb)
- Azerbaijani: atom bombası
- Basque: bonba atomikoa
- Belarusian: а́тамная бо́мба f (átamnaja bómba)
- Breton: please add this translation if you can
- Bulgarian: ядрена бомба f (jadrena bomba)
- Catalan: bomba atòmica f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 原子彈／原子弹 (zh) (yuánzǐdàn), 原子弹 (zh) (yuánzǐdàn), 原子爆彈／原子爆弹 (zh) (yuánzǐ bàodàn), 原子爆弹 (zh) (yuánzǐ bàodàn), 原爆 (zh) (yuánbào)
- Czech: atomová bomba f
- Danish: atombombe (da) c
- Dutch: atoombom (nl) f
- Esperanto: atombombo
- Estonian: aatomipomm (et)
- Faroese: kjarnorkubumba f
- Finnish: ydinpommi (fi)
- French: bombe atomique (fr) f
- German: Atombombe (de) f
- Greek: ατομική βόμβα (el) f (atomikí vómva)
- Greenlandic: atomimik qaartartorsuaq
- Hebrew: פְּצָצָה אֲטוֹמִית f (petzatza atomít)
- Hindi: परमाणु बम m (parmāṇu bam), परमाणुबम (hi) m (parmāṇubam), अणुबम (hi) m (aṇubam), एटमबम m (eṭambam)
- Hungarian: atombomba (hu)
- Icelandic: atómsprengja f, kjarnorkusprengja (is) f
- Ido: atom-bombo
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- Irish: buama adamhach m
- Italian: bomba atomica (it) f, bomba A f
- Japanese: 原子爆弾 (ja) (げんしばくだん, genshi bakudan), 原爆 (ja) (genbaku)
- Kazakh: атом бомбасы (atom bombasy)
- Khmer: គ្រាប់បែកបរមាណូ (kruab baek pak rak ma no)
- Korean: 원자폭탄 (ko) (wonjapoktan), 원폭 (ko) (wonpok)
- Latvian: atombumba f, kodolbumba f
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- Lithuanian: atominė bomba f
- Luxembourgish: Atombomm
- Macedonian: атомска бомба f (atomska bomba)
- Mongolian: цөмийн бөмбөг (cömiin bömbög)
- Navajo: łeetsoh beeʼeldǫǫhtsoh beeʼalį́į́h
- Northern Sami: atomabomba
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: atombombe (no) m or f
- Nynorsk: atombombe f
- Occitan: bomba atomica
- Persian: بمب اتمی (bomb-e atomi)
- Polish: bomba atomowa (pl) f
- Portuguese: bomba atômica f
- Romanian: bombă atomică (ro), bombă nucleară (ro) f
- Russian: а́томная бо́мба (ru) f (átomnaja bómba)
- Rusyn: атомо́ва бо́мба f (atomóva bómba)
- Scottish Gaelic: please add this translation if you can
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: а̀то̄мска̄ бо̑мба f
- Roman: àtōmskā bȏmba f
- Slovak: atómová bomba f
- Slovene: atomska bomba (sl) f
- Spanish: bomba atómica f
- Swedish: atombomb (sv) c
- Thai: ระเบิดปรมาณู (rá-bə̀ət-bpà-rá-maa-nuu)
- Turkish: atom bombası (tr)
- Ukrainian: а́томна бо́мба (uk) f (átomna bómba)
- Urdu: please add this translation if you can
- Uyghur: ئاتوم بومبىسى (atom bombisi)
- Vietnamese: bom nguyên tử (vi)
- Walloon: please add this translation if you can
- Welsh: bom atomig
- West Frisian: atoombom
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