The phrase "atomic strike" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to military actions, particularly those involving nuclear weapons or significant destructive force.
Example: "The threat of an atomic strike has led to increased tensions between the two nations."
Alternatives: "nuclear attack" or "nuclear strike".
Mr. Jeppson, who was 87 and lived in Las Vegas, was the next-to-last survivor of the 12 men who carried out history's first atomic strike.
World War II, perhaps the most profound example, ended in an atomic strike on Japan in 1945 largely on the shoulders of scientist-soldiers in the Manhattan Project.
Maj. Gen. Charles W. Sweeney, who flew the B-29 Superfortress that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, the second atomic strike on Japan in the final days of World War II, died Friday at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
Gen. Charles W. Sweeney The pilot who flew the B-29 Superfortress that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, the second atomic strike on Japan in the final days of World War II, he was 84.
Now it has been revealed that the highly erratic president's metaphorical digit was hovering even closer than was widely realised as his administration laid plans for an atomic strike against North Korea in 1969 following the shooting down of a US spy plane.
The Hiroshima mission was followed by another atomic strike.
After Hurricane Katrina in 2005 revealed the poor state of disaster planning, public and private officials began to question national preparedness for atomic strikes.
The crews who flew the atomic strikes were seen by Americans as saviors who had averted the huge casualties that were expected to result from an invasion of Japan.
The question of North Korea's atomic capability was thrust to the headlines when Pyongyang on Thursday threatened the United States with a nuclear strike.
Last weekend's atomic test Pyongyang's second attempted nuclear explosion thus far was an absolutely logical, and indeed a necessary, step for a regime intent upon methodically perfecting the capability for a nuclear strike.
The North has staged three atomic tests, most recently in 2013, and has often threatened nuclear strikes against major foes Seoul and Washington.
