词汇 | a-bomb |
词源 | A-bomb; H-bomb; the bomb. The atomic bomb was first called the atom bomb or A-bomb within a few months after it was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. People were also calling it simply the bomb by then. Soon after the far more powerful thermonuclear hydrogen bomb or H-bomb was test- ed, in 1952, it was commonly called the bomb, too. Lighter cites a 1945–48 reference for A-bomb as a powerful mixed drink. The nickname of the uranium bomb dropped on Hiroshima was Little Boy, while the plutonium bomb that obliterated Na- gasaki three days later was called Fat Man. |
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