Sentence examples for ordinary bomb from inspiring English sources
A more realistic image is terrorists planning to explode a "dirty" bomb, that is, an ordinary bomb that scatters radioactive materials around a neighborhood.
The fusion reaction in the secondary would yield immensely more energy than an ordinary atom bomb; indeed, the first hydrogen bomb exploded with 600 times the energy of the Hiroshima bomb.
In December 1950 Ulam had proposed a new fission weapon design, using the mechanical shock of an ordinary fission bomb to compress to a very high density a second fissile core.
In the hydrogen bombs which have so far been exploded the means of doing this has been to set off an ordinary atomic bomb surrounded by a blanket of the chemical compound of lithium and deuterium.
In addition, a highly sophisticated bomb-aiming system, using a laser range-finder and high-speed digital data processing, permits ordinary "dumb" bombs to be dropped with precision accuracy from low altitudes.
The cold war may have been the start, when schoolchildren dove under desks and ordinary citizens dug bomb shelters out back.
Scientists at the Washington University in St . Louisin Missouri received a 3-year, $750,000 grant to continue research that turns ordinary locusts into bomb detectors.
The program addresses true nuclear weapons as well as so-called dirty bombs, ordinary explosives that spew radioactive debris.
The 43 tons of surplus plutonium in the American stockpile could fuel up to 10,000 nuclear weapons and even more "dirty bombs" — ordinary explosives that spew radioactive debris.
For example, Pollitt herself confesses that the opinions that underpinned her most controversial column — against displaying American flags after 9/11 — were formed during the Vietnam War; she despairs that her pro-flag daughter cannot see "the connection between waving the flag and bombing ordinary people half a world away".
By laying bombs where ordinary people live and work, insurgents have ensured roadside bombs remain the biggest killer of civilians in Afghanistan.
