English[edit]
An early-generation atomic gravity bomb.
A mushroom cloud characteristic of an atomic bomb detonation.
Etymology[edit]
Coined by British science fiction author H. G. Wells in his 1914 novel The World Set Free.
atomic bomb (plural atomic bombs)
- (countable, military) A nuclear weapon that obtains its destructive energy from nuclear fission.
- Synonyms: atom bomb, A-bomb, fission bomb
- (uncountable, colloquial, with the) The possession of one or more atomic bombs; the ability to launch a nuclear attack.
- Synonym: the bomb
Nine different countries have the atomic bomb as of 2022.
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nuclear weapon
- Afrikaans: atoombom
- Albanian: bombë atomike f
- Arabic: قُنْبُلَة ذَرِّيَّة (qunbula ḏarriyya)
- Armenian: ատոմային ռումբ (atomayin ṙumb)
- Azerbaijani: atom bombası
- Basque: bonba atomikoa
- Belarusian: а́тамная бо́мба f (átamnaja bómba)
- Breton: bombezenn (br) nukleel (br) f
- Bulgarian: я́дрена бо́мба f (jádrena bómba), а́томна бо́мба f (átomna bómba)
- Burmese: အဏုမြူဗုံး (my) (a.nu.mrubum:)
- Carpathian Rusyn: атомо́ва бо́мба f (atomóva bómba)
- Catalan: bomba atòmica f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 原子彈／原子弹 (zh) (yuánzǐdàn), 原子爆彈／原子爆弹 (zh) (yuánzǐ bàodàn), 原爆 (zh) (yuánbào)
- Czech: atomová bomba f
- Danish: atombombe (da) c
- Dutch: atoombom (nl) f
- Esperanto: a-bombo, atombombo
- Estonian: aatomipomm (et)
- Faroese: kjarnorkubumba f
- Finnish: ydinpommi (fi)
- French: bombe atomique (fr) f
- Georgian: ატომური ბომბი (aṭomuri bombi)
- German: Atombombe (de) f
- Greek: ατομική βόμβα (el) f (atomikí vómva)
- Greenlandic: atomimik qaartartorsuaq
- Hebrew: פְּצָצָה אֲטוֹמִית f (ptsatsá 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
- Indonesian: bom atom (id)
- 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) (げんばく, genbaku)
- Kazakh: атом бомбасы (atom bombasy)
- Khmer: គ្រាប់បែកបរមាណូ (krŏəp baek paʼraʼmaanou)
- Korean: 원자폭탄(原子爆彈) (ko) (wonjapoktan), 원폭(原爆) (ko) (wonpok)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: bomba atomê
- Kyrgyz: атом бомбасы (atom bombası)
- Lao: ລະເບີດປະລໍາມະນູ (la bœ̄t pa lam ma nū)
- Latin: pȳrobolus atomicus m
- Latvian: atombumba f, kodolbumba f
- Lithuanian: atominė bomba f
- Luxembourgish: Atombomm
- Macedonian: атомска бомба f (atomska bomba)
- Malay: bom atom (ms)
- Marathi: अणुबॉम्ब (mr) m (aṇubŏmba)
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: цөмийн бөмбөг (cömiin bömbög)
- Navajo: łeetsoh beeʼeldǫǫhtsoh beeʼalį́į́h
- Northern Sami: atomabomba
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: atombombe (no) m or f
- Nynorsk: atombombe f
- Occitan: bomba atomica (oc)
- Pashto: اتومي بم m (atūmi bam)
- Persian: بمب اتمی (bomb-e atomi)
- Plautdietsch: Atommbomm f
- Polish: bomba atomowa (pl) f
- Portuguese:
- Brazilian: bomba atômica f
- European: bomba atómica f
- Quechua: iñuku huk'i bomba
- Romanian: bombă atomică (ro), bombă nucleară (ro) f
- Russian: а́томная бо́мба (ru) f (átomnaja bómba)
- Scottish Gaelic: boma atamach m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: а̀то̄мска̄ бо̑мба f
- Roman: àtōmskā bȏmba f
- Slovak: atómová bomba f
- Slovene: atomska bomba (sl) f
- Spanish: bomba atómica f, bombo (es) m
- Swedish: atombomb (sv) c
- Tagalog: bomba atomika
- Tajik: бомбаи атомӣ (bombayi atomī)
- Thai: ระเบิดปรมาณู (rá-bə̀ət-bpà-rá-maa-nuu)
- Turkish: atom bombası (tr)
- Turkmen: atom bombasy
- Ukrainian: а́томна бо́мба (uk) f (átomna bómba)
- Urdu: اَیٹَم بَم m (aiṭam bam)
- Uyghur: ئاتوم بومبىسى (atom bombisi)
- Uzbek: atom bombasi
- Vietnamese: bom nguyên tử (vi)
- Walloon: please add this translation if you can
- Welsh: bom atomig
- West Frisian: atoombom
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