The phrase "atomic annihilation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing nuclear reactions, particle physics, or science fiction scenarios involving the destruction of matter at an atomic level.
Example: "The scientists were concerned about the potential for atomic annihilation during the experiment, as it could lead to catastrophic consequences."
Alternatives: "nuclear annihilation" or "matter annihilation".
The possibility of atomic annihilation overshadowed an uneasy peace.
There's that pre-credits Hiroshima footage, cautioning us not to underestimate the effects of atomic annihilation.
Perhaps in that way we could assure that the threat of atomic annihilation does not exist for anyone.
Our computer modelling shows that should atomic annihilation be on the cards, one of the safest places to live would be Antarctica.
The Cuban missile crisis showed that neither the United States nor the Soviet Union were ready to use nuclear weapons for fear of the other's retaliation (and thus of mutual atomic annihilation).
His frank interest and frank desire are matched by his frank doubts about his own reason and morality, leading to self-challenging and self-questioning, from perspectives distilled from Christianity and Freud and refracted through the existential challenges of a world perched on the edge of military invasion, tyranny, and atomic annihilation.
The exotic atom decays with the emission of atomic X-rays and pions from the nuclear annihilation, which uniquely identifies the captured antiparticle.
The florid anger of Bernstein's original narration was very much a product of the atomic age: he wanted to say the Kaddish for himself, since, in the event of nuclear annihilation, there would be no one around to say it for anyone.
The atomic bombings of Japan, and the Cold War, seared into our psyche the tangible existential threat of nuclear annihilation, a deep dread that was closely linked with fear of radiation from the fallout from atmospheric nuclear weapons testing.
In the 1950s, when the threat of nuclear annihilation began to cast its shadow, films like "Them!," about man-eating ants made monstrous by atomic testing, began to emerge.
In December 2016, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists — the academic journal that covers the impending nuclear threat — moved its Doomsday Clock forward, indicating that we are closer to nuclear annihilation than at any other time since 1952.
