Now we had only minutes before the bombs were disarmed I caught Beckendorf s eyes again and asked a silent question, hoping he would understand How long? The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

No, because other countries could also build bombs—and there would be no way to ensure that those bombs weren’t used on Americans. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s me. I helped build the bombs. I brought them into the school. I’m the one behind all this.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

At the far edge of the bog a bomb fell, its muted blast followed by a distant rain of excavated glop. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Einstein urged the government to start working closely with physicists to explore the possibilities of building atomic bombs. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was surely long enough to provide the stability required of a bomb core. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Though he had ordered the bombing, Johnson wasn’t absolutely convinced the North Vietnamese had initiated another attack. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Within seconds, a low-flying V-shaped formation of Capitol hover- planes appears above us, and the bombs begin to fall. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

A bomb slammed into the runway as they ran for the nearest building. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Like I hadn't just dropped the atomic bomb of secrets. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Within the space of three weeks, we have proof-fired one bomb in the American desert, exploded one in Hiroshima, and fired the third this morning. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

All that talk of the war we were fighting in Korea made a lot more people on television discuss bomb shelters. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I was reading in the paper that we bombed Central Europe for the first time the other day.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leo Szilard and Eugene Wigner—the ones who’d triggered the Manhattan Project by convincing Albert Einstein to warn President Roosevelt of the danger of atomic bombs—came to watch. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The "report" mentioned in this decrypted message described a crucial step in building an atomic bomb. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Wailing children, broken old people, bombing, and blood all came in sharp enough in black-and-white. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

What could I say, how could I phrase it, without implying that it was his bomb that killed Prim? Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The noise vibrates in my bones as the small bomb detonates, and the force of the blast throws me sideways, my gun sliding across the floor. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

It wasn't long after that when the bomb threats started. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The Russians had built atomic and hydrogen bombs, and they had jet bombers that could reach the United States. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

President Johnson had secretly ordered more than two thousand bombing runs over Cambodia during his presidency. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Their father dropped his observation like a bomb. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the conference where Gartler dropped what became known as “the HeLa bomb,” most researchers kept right on working with the cells he’d said were contaminated. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The heat of the blast completely vaporized the steel tower holding the bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clearly, someone had planted a bomb under the house and detonated it. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

We knew that on any day, at any time, a bomb might explode. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you want to bomb the village?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I recounted the details of the church bombing, recalling that September morning somberly. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The bombs are spread out over the long hours so that just when you think the raid is over, another blast sends shock waves through your guts. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He detailed his role in helping to plan the early bombing campaigns, and told how two years in Vietnam had changed his views. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Just as Sarah started shouting curse bombs to get his attention, my mother came home. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This room didn’t get destroyed by those bombs,” Diana said. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

But in Shaker Heights, things were peaceful, and riots and bombs and earthquakes were quiet thumps, muffled by distance. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But in other ways, it feels pretty real in there—the enemy soldiers dressed in Peacekeepers’ uniforms, the confusion of a smoke bomb. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

It was difficult for the armorers who had to load these guns, too, and the women who ended up doing this work weren’t at first particularly interested in bombs or guns or even in engineering. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The bombings destroyed many villages and killed many people, allowing the Khmer Rouge to gain support from the peasants and farmers. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her fingers closed around the bomb just as the ice shattered and the winds exploded. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The saboteurs were to recruit Nazi sympathizers and supply them with dynamite, incendiaries, and small bombs. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The jet roared and dropped a bomb just over the clearing. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some advisors wanted more bombing, other suggested calling up the Army Reserves to fight. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

It was his job to aim the bomb at the T-shaped Aioi Bridge—a centrally located feature that could be identified from high in the air. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The firemen had axed their way through what seemed to be every wall and every door, leaving the place looking like a bomb had gone off. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Our leaders all told us that those atomic bombs were needed to end the war. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The following night, another bomb was thrown onto the Harrisons’ roof from the vacant apartment next door. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

On the train, I had wanted a bomb to fall on us to put me out of my misery. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

He would detonate the bomb and then run to her aid to save her and then they would live happily ever after. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They were German refugees from Breslau, which had been tremendously bombed. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leap past yawning bomb craters and snarls of rusted steel, over spent bullets and shell casings. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

I remember how that felt, after the bombings. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The front-page photograph showed the reporter’s arm dangling from a poinciana tree on Key Biscayne after the bomb in his car had exploded. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn't tell Walter about the death threats and bomb threats we'd received until he was free, and then I told him that we needed to be careful. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

On the night of July 31, 1943, the fifteen aircrews of a Po-2 squadron got ready for their nightly bombing run. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

There were a lot of bombings then: clinics, video stores; it was hard to keep track. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

As though to harmonize with the general mood, the rocket bombs had been killing larger numbers of people than usual. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

April 30: Several bombs are intercepted in the first wave of the 1919 anarchist bombings in the United States. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Although the Party, according to its habit, claims the invention for itself, atomic bombs first appeared as early as the Nineteen-forties, and were first used on a large scale about ten years later. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

After my bomb avocation, I became the organizer of the supercolossal fruit roll. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

For President Truman and his national security advisers, the situation demanded only one answer: to build more and bigger atomic bombs. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

O’Hare remembered one guy who got into a lot of wine in Dresden, before it was bombed, and we had to take him home in a wheelbarrow. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

That I didn't shoot him, or bomb him, or drown him, or do whatever it was, precisely, that caused Bas to no longer exist. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

And with good reason—he was helping British scientists figure out how to build an atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except for one thing: It was a key ingredient in the German atomic bomb program. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew I belonged to Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, but I didn’t tell him I had witnessed the 1963 bombing and the deaths of my friends. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

We make for the rear, pull wire cradles into the trench and leave bombs behind us with the strings pulled, which ensures us a fiery retreat. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why can’t we just put our energy into not having any atomic bombs?” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

If the Germans wanted heavy water that badly, he figured, they must be using it in their atomic bomb program. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nixon didn’t admit that he was carrying on his massive, clandestine bombing of Cambodia. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

It looked like Dresden after it was fire- bombed—like the surface of the moon. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the next two years, vigilante groups of whites had responded violently, bombing twenty-six homes and killing twenty-seven blacks. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I asked all my friends at school if any of them had a bomb shelter anyway, because I wanted to reserve space in it if they did. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

By July 1945, Los Alamos would have just enough U-235 f°r one bomb, and it couldn’t be wasted on a test. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She understood why the bomb was set off when the firefighters came in and why someone would want to wait to set off another. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

She could not imagine what it would be like to have bombs falling on her city. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“The capture of this material,” Groves reported, “would seem to remove definitely any possibility of the Germans making any use of an atomic bomb in this war.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each piece would have to explode at the exact same time, within one millionth of a second, or the bomb would fizzle. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Allied bombing raids destroyed strategic locations throughout Europe in the push to defeat Hitler. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

After school we tell Brendan he has to ask the question tomorrow, What use is Euclid and all those lines that go on forever when the Germans are bombing everything? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Another salvo of three bombs exploded as Tom Bolles’s boys passed the finish line an astonishing five lengths ahead of Syracuse. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The device was not a hydrogen bomb, exactly, but it was “the first thermonuclear test explosion on earth,” in the words of one witness, the young Berkeley physicist Herbert York. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

As they strolled, Hiskey shocked Franklin by saying: “Imagine a bomb dropped in the center of this city, which would destroy the entire city.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

At that time some hundreds of bombs were dropped on industrial centers, chiefly in European Russia, Western Europe, and North America. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

It had been ten years since the bombing, but I still thought about that awful day or the girls—usually Cynthia—daily. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The female goshawk drops down from her nest and, feet outspread, bombs Bando. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Luftwaffe aircraft swooped in low, bombing and gunning the easily targeted empty planes where they stood parked in rows on the Soviet airfields. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

There were no men with guns or machetes, no planes with bombs overhead. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he got up and started pacing, thinking about what little he knew about fission and the possibility of building atomic bombs. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Truman also delivered a sterner warning to Stalin: The president sent a fleet of B-29 bombers to bases in England, the same type of aircraft that had dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Our screens never come on, and we get only brief audio updates from Coin about the nature of the bombs. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Now, the moment Nishina walked into Kawabe’s office, the general demanded, “Could you build an atom bomb in six months? In favorable circumstances we might be able to hold out that long.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

If it was obvious to him that an atomic bomb might be possible, it was also obvious to everyone else in the global community of top physicists. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those thousands of tons of bombs didn’t do much more than disturb the sleep of the Japanese soldiers in reinforced caves and tunnels a hundred feet below the black sand. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was halfway through the assignment when Japanese fighter pilots bombed the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The only hope, he believed, was for the United States to stop building bombs and to somehow convince the Soviet Union not to start. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The airdrome had been bombed eight months before, and knobby slabs of white stone rubble had been bulldozed into flat- topped heaps on both sides of the entrance through the wire fence surrounding the field. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

As Stimson recalled the moment, “it was considered exceedingly probable that we should by midsummer have successfully detonated the first atomic bomb . . . What had begun as a well-founded hope was now developing into a reality.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

A boy blurts, “They have a bomb called the Secret Signal. It makes a sound, and everyone who hears it goes to the bathroom in their pants!” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“The use of a second bomb the same week,” he said, “was calculated to indicate that we had an endless supply of this super weapon for use against one Japanese city after another.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

His intelligence experts had just told him the Soviets wouldn’t have the bomb until the middle of 1953. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He buried his head in his bombsight until his bombs were away; when he looked up, everything inside the ship was suffused in a weird orange glow. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

In an attempt to reestablish the lines that separated black and white communities and to intimidate black residents who crossed over into white neighborhoods, they bombed black homes, businesses, and churches. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the bombs fall on the lower city and the train tracks, but a few make the dust crumble from our ceiling. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

During this time rockets loaded with atomic bombs can be assembled at all the strategic spots; finally they will all be fired simultaneously, with effects so devastating as to make retaliation impossible. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

If Truman had any misgivings about using the atomic bomb, he kept them well buried. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Final assembly of the bomb would be done in the morning. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bomb had cleanly blown away his face. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“An American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima,” Truman announced to the world. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wouldn’t the world be safer if a second major power also knew how to build atomic bombs? Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

A hub of hydrogen bomb research, the Livermore National Laboratory would be Ernest Lawrence’s final monument. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

President Truman, who felt he had shown a valorous decisiveness in ordering the bombs to be dropped, had no tolerance for retrospective moralizing. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Birmingham residents had once believed Klan bombs were meant only to intimidate people, not kill people. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

We escaped bombs but missed the rescue ships. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

But he opened with a bang: “The object of the project is to produce a practical military weapon in the form of a bomb in which the energy is released by a fast-neutron chain reaction.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn't quite like stepping into a military ambush, or being on the front lines in Spain, or witnessing the aftermath of an atomic bomb, but the atmosphere around me was definitely hostile. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Chess sensed, more than actually seeing, that Finn and Natalie were throwing smoke bombs, too. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

This was the night of September third, 1940, and in a little while a bomb was going to fall from the sky and blow a giant hole in the house. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

That was in another hiding place known to Julia, the belfry of a ruined church in an almost-deserted stretch of country where an atomic bomb had fallen thirty years earlier. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Let’s find somewhere safe to hide until the bombing’s through. We can search more when it’s over.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Winchell threw a five-yard touchdown pass to Hill and then made it three when he hooked up with Brown for a sixty-one- yard bomb with twenty-four seconds left. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rabi, who believed they were making a social call, was surprised to hear them launch into a promotional spiel for a huge program to develop a hydrogen bomb. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

And then there’s the photo of one of the bombs exploding with a big mushroom cloud. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Before the bombing, very little of the current 13 was aboveground. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The next day is like someone has dropped an atomic bomb in our house. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

As the pace of war planning intensified, it soon became impossible to tell where the Rad Lab ended and the bomb program began. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

After I talked to Grandma about it, I knew that there were no bomb shelters in our neighborhood and there wouldn't be any. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

If you don't count the ruins of District 13 that still smolder from the toxic bombs. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Kisty’s first reaction: “Dr. Oppenheimer is mad to think this thing will make a bomb.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I wouldn’t want terrorists to bomb it. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

When the first bomb drops on America the people up here’ll start thinking. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bombs were falling still, thudding like an irregular heartbeat. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

When he’d called his sister after the first bomb went off, she hadn’t answered. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“They started there, bombed holes into the runways. No one can fly in. They want to have their government installed before the UN or whoever else cares to help can get here.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

They have to mark the neutral bit “IRELAND” in big letters made of whitewashed stones, hoping the Germans won’t drop bombs there thinking it’s the UK side of the northern border. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Orion was designed to utilize explosions of hydrogen bombs, nuclear weapons, against an inertial plate, each explosion providing a kind of “putt-putt,” a vast nuclear motorboat in space. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She felt it all right at the back of her throat, like a bomb—or a tiger—sitting on the base of her tongue. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I skimmed over an opinion piece that celebrated the rehabilitation camps and was more amused than offended that Psi kids were now being openly referred to as “mutant time bombs.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“But they started it. They bombed Hawaii on a Sunday morning. On a Sunday morning, of all things.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

They sailed up and out of the grave, past Mr. Milgrom and into the rectangle of gray sky and the black falling teardrops of the bombs. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Whether the plutonium bomb worked or not, the plan was to have one uranium bomb assembled and ready for use by early August. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the bomb exploded on September 15, 1963, shaking the church’s foundation and shattering its windows, people gave funds to repair Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

As for Hamza, there has been little change in his condition since the night of the barrel bomb. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Hoping that a suspicious character had just thrown a bomb or shot himself, he ran around the comer onto St. Ann and saw the green hunting cap emitting vomit among the ruins. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“One aircrew should bomb the target and the other ‘tackle’ enemy antiaircraft weapons.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“I thank God on my bended knees that we did not make the uranium bomb,” said Hahn. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The silhouette of the bodyguard looked menacing, and Matt remembered he’d killed twenty children with a bomb intended for the English prime minister.The man seemed to soak up the faint starlight from the ceiling. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her family was headed to her grandparents’ farm outside the city of Hiroshima, and she’d been hearing for months that a single big bomb had been dropped there and destroyed the city. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I was in a bomb—I don’t care about the bottom of my feet!” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Instead, he probed the explosive characteristics of U-235 and soon realized that a bomb could be made from roughly a pound of the separated isotope. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

A Fairfax newspaper published an editorial arguing that the bombing was beyond comprehension—“beyond our power to realize that humans would stoop so low.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

A plane would fly to its target and come back, land, refuel, and reload with fresh bombs. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The Germans, he added, were probably “far ahead on the bomb.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did they use the word uranium in connection with this atomic bomb?” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dozens and dozens of planes used Sulphur Island as an emergency landing field on their way back from bombing Japan. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A bomb went through the roof of the Wuchang Y.M.C.A. building,” he went on, “but they continued to give out free rice as long as they had it.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

That would be sufficient to build six bombs by the end of 1942, beating Compton’s timeline for an Allied bomb by two years. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He chose not to explain to the American people that the bombing would continue indefinitely. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Then I remember that many of these people probably lost their homes in the bombings. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“I don’t believe you wanted to kill people with these bombs,” he told her, hoping it was true. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The church asked me to play a major role each year when we formally remembered the September 15 bombing. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Below, he saw men blundering around, rendered blind by the flash bomb Wylan had set off. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The MPs started lobbing tear gas bombs, and then, with no announcement or command to shoot, while the mob swirled frantically to escape the gas, several soldiers opened fire. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The guy had saved a life after Tad had basically accused him of causing the bombing. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I imagined dropping bombs on those lights, those villages and cities and towns. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

An article written exclusively for the Saturday Evening Post after the bombing captured the president’s reaction this way: “President Kennedy, echoing the national temper, said he felt a ‘deep sense of outrage and grief.’” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Look, if you think my dad’s making guns or bombs for the rats, you can forget it. He would never do that.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Had the neutron been isolated in the 1920s, they note, it is "very likely the atomic bomb would have been developed first in Europe, undoubtedly by the Germans." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was past midnight when a frantic telephone call came in from the site where the practice bombing was supposed to take place. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Somewhere far away a rocket bomb exploded with a dull, reverberating roar. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

They also questioned my two brothers about the bombing. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

That a Capitol hovercraft manned by rebels bombed the children to bring a speedy end to the war. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

It was entitled ‘The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution’—the revolution being Rutherford’s revolution, which had led to the creation of the atomic bomb. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Then they began to hate the bomb line itself. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Soon after the attacks, America bombed Afghanistan, the Northern Alliance moved in, and the Taliban scurried like rats into the caves. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Our resistance movement fights Turkish plans to bomb Syria,” Ali says. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“From the bomb, of course! My dad used to make geta and sold them in a little shop in front of our house in Hiroshima.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

After it had been bombed during one of the many skirmishes between battling warlords, he had decided to leave the country. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

After forty days of bombing, they accepted the broadcast amnesty. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The generation of Afghan children whose ears would know nothing but the sounds of bombs and gunfire was not yet born. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Do not forget you are air pirate and capitalist warmonger! You are criminal aggressor who has bombed and killed peaceful Vietnamese!” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The bombs had been even more devastating than he had expected. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And got shot, and bombed, and eaten by hollows,” said Bronwyn. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The people of Lucille would remember the temples that were bombed, the mosques, the acid attacks, the synagogues. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Conant had advised Bush to put the uranium project on the shelf for the duration of the war, but that advice had been based on his impression that a bomb was purely conjectural. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

To a certain extent, Conant was bluffing, for the rising concern in Washington and the scientific community about a possible German bomb made an allied effort seem imperative, regardless of the prospects of success. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

But mostly, right at this moment, she cried for the horrible pain Kiyoshi must have felt the day the bomb fell. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“She has a bomb. In that bag, there’s a bomb.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

This was a tough task, since Soviet agents didn’t know which American scientists were working on the atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later that evening, out on the balcony, I asked Pa about the bombs dropping in the countryside. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fuchs explained that he wouldn’t be able to get another leave from Los Alamos—everyone was needed for the final push to finish the bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bomb’s bright light lit up the sky above our street, and for a few seconds night became day. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I listen to the swish, swish of Mother’s handheld fan, the whispers among adults, the bombs in the ever greater distance. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

They brought destruction at close range with incendiary bombs, and they released annihilation—and a new, modern fear—with the atomic bombs they delivered. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He informed her that her husband, Ernest, had confessed that he knew something about these murder cases and that Hale had apparently engineered them, including the bombing of her sister Rita’s house. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Okay, that part was fine by me—that lemon-filled cake was the bomb! Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Despite Lawrences own initial doubts, it would produce the fuel for the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Then World War II intervened and Oppenheimer himself became closely involved in the atom bomb project. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

After each air raid, a dark cloud hovered over the bombed cities for days. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I could sleep through bombs and tornadoes and everything. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

When the Japanese Zeroes began bombing the ships in Battleship Row and destroyed the USS Arizona, Bobby began clapping loudly. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Evidently Joe’s smoke bombs were the type that splatted and set off smoke instantly, because Chess’s next breath brought in an ashy odor. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“It means nobody will be able to live here on account of the smell. A rotten egg is a regular stink bomb.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

The “visit of important gentleman’s wife” was probably an “invitation to the Japanese Navy to bomb the harbor.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The snapshot was fated to become a historical artifact, for within a year, these same men would come together again—as leaders of America’s effort to create the atomic bomb. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“So what is he going to do—dive-bomb your own bomb shelter?” she asked. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Most everyone should have been out of the building when the first bomb went off. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

When I heard that, I knew we would never be able to afford to have a bomb shelter. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“All the air raids we have had, we went there, and nothing happened to us. We don’t need a bunker. Banana trees absorb bullets and bombs.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

By about two o’clock each afternoon I wished the Russians would bomb me out of my misery. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The pilot called in an air strike and within minutes American planes sped over the village, dropping bombs. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

A rocket bomb must have dropped quite near at hand. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“You mean that God might even decide to punish me by giving us a looser bomb pattern?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Oppenheimer’s scientists had not yet built an atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like sexual confusion and atom bombs, self-taught civil engineers are causally associated with extinction. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Then Bruno Rossi put him to work experimenting with components of the new plutonium bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe the bombing and shooting had started and he had to write fast. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

At the first sign of trouble, they could shut the bomb down. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Smyth was a former chairman of the Princeton physics department who had authored an official history of the bomb program released to the public following Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Now she was going to have to lead them in their first bombing mission. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Gaza was filled with buildings that had been bombed. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Russell’s part was to wait on the trolley trestle that spanned the river, and when Piper passed underneath, bomb away from a bucketful of rocks. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Howitzers and mortars, naval gunfire, aerial bombing, and men on foot with hand grenades and satchel charges had done their work. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The engineers were rigging a series of lights to help them bring the cable to the bomb: she could hear their voices not far away, shouting commands, and see the lights wavering through the trees. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

"Crow could be the one. Bring hellfire down on all of us," Theo whispered to Chris, "but she wasn't in the building when the first two bombs went off." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as Oliver said at the time of the bombing, the armed struggle was imposed upon us by the violence of the apartheid regime. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bomb swayed and turned in the breeze as it was lifted, just a foot a minute, toward the top of the tower. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because there was smoke and her ankle throbbed and she was trapped on the third floor of a bombed building and whatever phone call Dad made to the mayor’s office wasn’t going to help. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“They start shooting only when the bombs run out, nothing to worry about now,” the airport manager said airily, already on his way out. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

As a kid during World War II, he’d sat in movie theaters, horrified by newsreel images of the smoking rubble of European cities that had been flattened by German bombs. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

This sharpened the feelings in the physics community and among the program’s civilian leadership that discussions about the deployment of the bomb and postwar management of its technology should be urgently stepped up. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Each night, as I laid my head on the pillow, bomb shelters were my topic for thoughts, nightmares, dreams, and planning. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There it was witnessed by a nonplussed Luis Alvarez, whom Compton had brought to Chicago to help him organize the bomb project. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

But they don’t never explain more than just sayin, Yeah, your mother was on the moon, she been in nuclear bombs and made that polio vaccine. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

On March 14, four days after the bombing, Bill Smith died—another victim of what had become known as the Osage Reign of Terror. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

One of these pioneers was Anne Taylor, who was a little more than five years old when World War II started and the bombs rained down. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

After they’d dropped their bombs, those guns that were firing from the ground had torn through their fragile aircraft. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“On the day the electorate, as expected in polls, was voting in unprecedented numbers against bombing North Vietnam or otherwise escalating the war, we were working to set such a policy in motion,” Ellsberg recalled. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Montgomery turned into a battle zone on the night of January 10, 1957, as bombs rocked the city’s black churches. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Using this information, it was his task to devise a strategy for flying the bomb over enemy territory, releasing it on target, and getting away before the massive blast killed everyone in the plane. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

We boys lifted the corners of his bed like pallbearers and walked him down into the crater that the bomb had made. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“It was the first bit of information that had come to me about the atomic bomb.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All right. We expect at least three more waves. They have to drop their sight shields before they release the bombs. That’s our chance. Stay low!” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Then they were to go to the laboratory, make their bomb, and blow up the target. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

We worried that the Klan might have planted a second, deadlier bomb to explode after a crowd had gathered. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He watched his parents’ faces pale as they all imagined the falling bombs. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

As the Cold War escalated, some scientists exposed Henrietta’s cells to massive doses of radiation to study how nuclear bombs destroyed cells and find ways to reverse that damage. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Another bomb tossed onto Dr. King’s front yard somehow failed to go off. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Strange as it sounds, we got used to the bombing and shelling. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t equipped for passengers—the young women had to ride in the bomb bays in total darkness. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Someone else planted a bomb in her car but it went off too early. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Think about it. This is the summer of your life when you did nothing! Oh, I take that back,” she said suddenly, and pointed her accusing finger at the bomb shelter. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“My dad got cut and a couple patients, too. It’s possibly revenge for the bombing.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Some of us dared to hope that the Japanese defenses had been wiped out by our guns and during the months of bombing. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

What happened in Sudan could be compared to the secret detonation of an atomic bomb. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the same time, at the ranch house, the physicist Robert Bacher supervised the assembly of the bomb’s plutonium core. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room had the whining, whistling anticipation of a falling bomb. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The children of Vietnam, who’d forced him to grapple with his conscience, needed and deserved to be free from falling bombs and searing napalm. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Their instructors watched while the men tried to be stealthy and set off their bombs. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

A pilot for South Vietnam bombed the presidential palace downtown that afternoon. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

After dinner at the Hotel Oakland that night, he dropped the bomb on the JV. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

That sense of well-being was shattered the instant the bomb went off that Sunday morning in September 1963—the day I grew up. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Not well. I know at any moment Snow could kill him. Especially since he warned Thirteen about the bombing. It’s a terrible thing to live with,” I say. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“What if the enemy should get an atomic bomb before we did!” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Compton’s report of the Schenectady meeting to Bush asserted firmly the practicality of building a “fission bomb of superlatively destructive power” and of separating isotopes on an industrial scale for no more than $100 million. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Hitler was about to be crushed—unless he could pull out an atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside Vogel's bomb, the full current of the ship's internal lighting system flowed through a thin, exposed wire. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I jumped out of the bomb shelter and ran after it like I was Orville Wright chasing after his brother, Wilbur. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

After the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor and their invasion of Alaska, Americans wanted a victory. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

In Kearney, Nebraska, citizens were instructed on disabling incendiary bombs with garden hoses. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

The sights were familiar, the inventory was the same, but now there was more of everything; vehicles, bomb craters, detritus. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Then, in December 1941, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, and it was like Turner Station had won the lottery: the demand for steel skyrocketed, as did the need for workers. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

When the pilots flew to the new airfield in their single-seat Yak-1s, their ground crew had to be transported together in a larger aircraft meant for heavy bombing. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I know she doesn’t have the same love for me right now after I sneaked Alan away from her and brought him into the city, where airstrikes and barrel bombs scorch through the sky. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

To take a recent example, historians are still debating whether blueprint copying or idea diffusion contributed more to Russia’s building of an atomic bomb. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Remember the bomb blast at the airport when a civil rights lawyer was traveling. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

How could there be a bomb here? in my church? While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It would have lacked the energy to sustain itself under normal conditions, however, the fission bomb provides it with all the energy it requires to grow and become self-sustaining. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Did Russia’s bomb-building efforts depend critically on blueprints of the already constructed American bomb, stolen and transmitted to Russia by spies? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

"The bomb's ready, and the breaker's jammed closed," she said. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stalin wanted his own atomic bomb— and he wanted it quickly. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Allied plan of bombing the great cities of the Japanese mainland had continued all through our invasion of Okinawa. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bush and Conant had proposed something of the sort to Stimson in September 1944: “complete disclosure” of the technology, omitting manufacturing and military details, “as soon as the first bomb has been demonstrated.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

If I got all involved, I’d forget I had lit the bomb, and then even I’d be surprised when it went off. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Within three or four minutes he was out of the area which the bomb had affected, and the sordid swarming life of the streets was going on as though nothing had happened. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

But as the lights and sounds of distant bombardment continued and no bombs fell directly on us, it became clear that neighboring areas were the immediate targets of attack. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, nobody had spotted the time bomb lurking in the code, a zero that engineers were supposed to remove while installing the software. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

For an implosion bomb to succeed, the inward blast had to be perfectly symmetrical. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Two hundred thousand civilians killed by atom bombs,” said Julia, “and two million more incinerated by firebombs is hardly what I would call 'Scot-free.'” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

At 8:15 the bomb bay doors opened. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day I was overflowing with all these worries, hoping our neighbor, Mrs. Williams, would build a bomb shelter because they had lots more money than we did. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what they’re doing until another bomb, ten yards away, detonates, opening a hole in the street. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

At times it was the silent destroyer, creeping in unseen, unrecognized, except when, like a powerful time bomb, it would explode inside my guts. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bombs fall diagonally; the bombers rise and scramble. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Inside the shack was the fully assembled bomb, a huge gray globe held together by bolts, with wires snaking in and out all over its surface. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Believe me, Sonia and I both jumped like one of the paper bombs had gone off. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can only hope we are being bombed by the Russians. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Because I might be planting a bomb in here?” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

A bomb crater, wide enough to swallow a lorry, had split the road at the school entrance in two. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Consumed by the topic, I brought it up at school, only to discover I was the only student completely informed about bomb shelters and their purpose. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She didn’t know much about bombs, or spirits. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He had taken Benton’s notes and not blown them out of proportion so much as he had strapped an atom bomb to every letter of every word. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

If there was another bomb in the building, Cas knew the answer would be yes. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

At that rate, one bomb core would be produced by July 1, 1945. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The fear was that if the bomb failed, government support for all other work in the field would cease, and research into the atom’s benefits to society would go fallow. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He told Americans he was ordering a sharp reduction in the bombing of North Vietnam, in the hope that this would lead to peace talks with Hanoi. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Not doing nothing!” cackled Peeves, lobbing a water bomb at several fifth-year girls, who screamed and dived into the Great Hall. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“I heard about the bombing yesterday, and about the deaths of your friends.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

My answer seems to satisfy them, but now both of them have been alerted to my eating patterns, and watch my plate like it’s a time bomb. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

One minute I was walking alone—I was heading for the bomb crater—and the next minute someone was beside me. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

One time, the sound of bombs from some rebellion came close, and the teachers locked us all in the school and told us to take cover under the tables where we did our work. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The cherry bomb had scared them witless, except for Ernie, who was witless anyway. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The key unsolved question was whether electromagnetic separation could produce more than a single uranium bomb core. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Stick bombs hung handle down from their belts. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Outside the prison walls, massive bombs fell on the city. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

"TB is like living with a bomb in your lung," Buddy had written to me at college. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

When the bombings started, villagers fled for the mountains, as the government had hoped. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

From left: J. Robert Oppenheimer, newly appointed to head the Manhattan Project’s bomb design lab at Los Alamos; future Nobelist Glenn Seaborg, developing plutonium for the bomb program; and Lawrence inspect the machine’s control console. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

McNamara wanted to use the details to help convince the president to begin a sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

With impressive precision, he explained the operation of bombs, land mines, and grenades, and how MK worked from underground. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m afraid, my dears, that it turned out to be a terrible, terrible bomb.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In late March, the machine parts factory is padlocked, and Frau Elena and the girls are sent to work for a civilian firm cleaning the streets after bombings. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

As for the phone calls, no one knows if they were simply idle bomb threats with eerie timing or if they were true warnings from someone on the inside. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

"Him that talked about the snakes. He was down there-" A tree exploded in the fire like a bomb. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I was ready to run if Lice came out bombed or acting crazy. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Two days later, a second plane took off from Tinian and dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the moment of truth, for both Lawrence and the bomb project. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He was against the bombing of North Vietnam, and she knew that. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The bottom line: Oppenheimer now had to figure out a whole new design for an atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It must have been set off because the firefighters tried to come in and help us. And there could be more bombs.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The bridge had been bombed after all, so we watched them come in line after line over the railroad bridge, the smoke of the burning synagogue still rising black behind them. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

If he sees you in the street below, he reaches out and drops a bomb on your head. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Anyway, we’ll probably blow ourselves sky-high before the end of the century, given the atom bomb and the way things are going. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes were riveted to it, and to me it was like a battering-ram or the bows of an icebreaker or maybe a couple of high-explosive bombs. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ford Hall had chemistry labs, and some administration officials worried that these radicals were making bombs in the basement. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

His nominal goal was to end backbiting about the bomb program from Roosevelt’s director of war mobilization, James F. Byrnes, a former senator and Supreme Court justice. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

When she woke up it was raining, and she was lying in a ravine full of bomb craters. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Unable to stay still a moment longer, George Kistiakowsky jumped up and ran to the top of the bomb shelter. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember sitting in class and hearing bomb blasts in the distance as rival tribes fought. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

At first we were afraid the plane had been sent by the northern Sudanese to bomb us, and people hid wherever they could. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bomb was homemade, and it would have been impossible to determine exactly when it would explode. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But the Deville sits in the gravel, ticking like a time bomb. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

They were standing outside a bombed house whose cellar was half open to the sky and had the appearance of a gigantic cave. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The bombings were front-page news for days: Two hundred twenty-four people were killed in Kenya, ten dead in Tanzania. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Ammunition spent, bombs dropped, they peeled off, heading back toward their base at Munda. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be extremely difficult to get everyone—not to mention the bomb itself—to this point of readiness again. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the White House, he dismissed Byrnes’s concerns by pointing out that the scientific team behind the bomb included Ernest Lawrence and three other Nobel laureates, along with “practically every physicist of standing.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The sound switches to a lieutenant aboard an Army bombing plane over New Jersey while he speaks with his commander on the ground. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Upon being informed that the bomb would be much larger than any ever built, the president barked: “Absolutely not! They are already too big!” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

In the midst of the bombing, the old timepiece stayed attached to the wall, its glass case intact and undisturbed. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And the Enola Gay was loaded with extra fuel and the bomb—fifteen thousand pounds more cargo than the B-29 was designed to carry. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suppose, for example, someone had gone back and given the Nazis the secret of the atom bomb? A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a bomb threat was made at her school, they decided the safest solution was to move to another town. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The quandary deepened in mid-1950, when it became evident that the solution to a vexing technical issue in hydrogen bomb design rested on the collaborative work of Teller and the Polish mathematician Stanislaw Ulam. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

His office looked like someone had detonated a bomb and unleashed a pack of wild wolves to pick over the salvageable remains. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

People saw it and ran out of bombed buildings and craters, begging for aid and medicine. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“The entire town will be inside the bomb line,” the corporal says. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The tubby little fighter planes dove like hornets, bombing and strafing the beaches where we’d soon set foot. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Dude, you had no way of knowing they were gonna try and kill you! Besides, they already had your home address. If you’d ignored their e-mails, they probably would have set off that bomb anyway.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“He’s like one of those flying aces from World War I who would just throw the bombs at their targets like hand grenades,” I said. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Through her connections in the Soviet government, she managed to get Stalin to approve her position as the commander of a new long-distance bombing regiment. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Once the bombs were gone, Louie would yell “Bombs away!” and the pilot would take control again. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Less than an hour after the Japanese bombed Hawaii, mines were being laid in San Francisco Bay. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

She refuses to understand mass, she refuses to understand why atom bombs blow up. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

There’s no way to know for sure about the intentions behind the bomb, but I now believe it wasn’t meant to take human lives. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Yet when Precious Coins was about to be born and the hospital miles away with bombs falling like hailstones, it was Mother alone who soothed the frantic household and quietly delivered the baby. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Teapot did not end the debate in Washington over the country’s two duplicative bomb labs. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It was still far away when it folded its wings and bombed the earth. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Because they captured Bologna, sir. Isn’t the mission canceled ?” “Of course the mission is canceled. Do you think we’re bombing our own troops now ?” “What are you waking me up for?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

So Lily sat down and pretended to read the Truman thing, which went like this: Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima, an important Japanese Army base. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soldiers ran under the bomb and tossed down a thick pile of cotton mattresses—low-tech protection in case of a potentially disastrous fall. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every black family in my neighborhood knew the familiar sound of a bomb exploding. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

A dozen nations were using the new technology of aircraft for bombing, for taking photographs of enemy troops, for shooting at soldiers on the ground, and for aerial combat against enemy pilots. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Then I went outside and with my new birthday shovel I got back to digging the bomb shelter. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

At eleven o’clock on the night of the fifteenth, a government sedan picked up Lawrence for the bumpy three-hour ride to Compania Hill, a watching post twenty miles from the bomb site. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Mmm, this is the bomb,” he said with his mouth full. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Sir, we throw ourselves at your mercy! Our house was hit by a bomb, you see, and our parents are dead, and we’re terribly lost...” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Carry on with the briefing, Danby. And make sure they understand the importance of a tight bomb pattern.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

And in the middle of the circle of children, like the object of some arcane ritual, there hovered a bomb, its downward-facing tip seemingly balanced on Adam’s outstretched finger. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

And if the Germans learned how seriously the Americans were working on an atomic bomb, they’d surely double their own efforts. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bombing was brief, but it left the palace in ruins. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

While they had dinner, Fuchs told Gold that the atomic bomb was being designed at a place called Los Alamos. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still no one fired at them, so for the first time, Serafima’s navigator released the catch that held the bombs in place. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Having Shiloh a secret is like a bomb waiting to go off. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ernest,” he said, “you say you are convinced of the importance of these fission bombs. Are you ready to devote the next several years of your life to getting them made?” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It would not be possible for this little hood to stop a bomb, would it? A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

When Becker showed up with the bombs in the port of Buenos Aires, the German diplomats there were outraged. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He had to have been thinking a bomb was about to drop, that Cade Hernandez was about to deploy a heat-seeking missile. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Through a bombed cemetery, long-forgotten Londoners unearthed and flung into trees, grinning in rotted formal wear. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

They told him they needed at least six or seven years for a cleaner bomb; he quoted them as offering an “absolutely clean” device in four or five. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The Soviet Union’s first atomic bomb exploded with the force of twenty thousand tons of TNT. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Prosecutors tried to salvage their case by filing separate charges against Burkhart, naming him as a co-conspirator in the bombing of the Smiths’ house. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Lawrence’s approach to security pressures in the bomb program soon evolved under pressure and the omnipresence of security officials in his life. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Army Eighth Air Force had bombed the harbor a few months prior. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Every night hundreds of planes pass over Holland on their way to German cities, to sow their bombs on German soil. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He can’t hide now, he’s not a victim of some bombing anymore; he’s a player, a principal. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a lot like when the hero in some blockbuster fantasy film is standing in the rubble of his war-ravaged village, bombed because the villains couldn’t find him. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She had to spend the summer of 1941 digging trenches around Moscow and putting out fires started by German bombs. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Then he opened it up as if it had a bomb inside. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

We huddled on the bathroom floor listening to bombs fall in other parts of the city. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“They said the Nigerians have been bombing and bombing Uli and no relief plane has been able to land in a week,” Alice said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The debate over whether to build the bomb was over. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He never guessed that Stalin already knew all about the American bomb project. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

One uranium bomb, small enough to fit in a plane, could pack about ten times that power. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

By October, KGB officers in Moscow were able to produce a complete report on plutonium bomb design, containing detailed descriptions of each component of the weapon and specific materials needed. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though I usually take showers, I really want to try a Dragon’s Egg bath bomb. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, the majority weren’t like the high-powered types he had worked with on the bomb project. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Hardtack would also test Livermore bombs of both “clean” and dirty varieties, and payloads of differing shapes and sizes. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

If a bomb exploded under me I’d be standing in the hole with my eyes sealed. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ruined houses and bombed blocks of flats made gaps in the vista,” remembered Haukelid. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was going stir-crazy, especially after my father dropping that bomb on me. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I used to get afraid at night, especially during bomb blasts. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The plan for the uranium bomb was to fire one lump of uranium at another inside a gun barrel. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hoping to bomb the British into submission, the Nazis increased their attacks on London in a terror campaign dubbed the Blitz. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The law forbade taking any of the shards, which seemed particularly absurd, considering they were smack in the middle of a bomb and missile range, bound to be hit and destroyed eventually. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“And what are you looking at, Mr. bomb builder?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I learned that this was how it happened—bomb, then darkness. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

But plutonium was a little easier to make, and the plutonium bomb design was far more complicated. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mom's labor had to be induced to avoid any risk of me being born during a bombing raid. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He knew right away it was a bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hoped the bombing would bring the North Vietnamese to the negotiating table. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

A few days later, Lyndon Johnson formally approved Operation Rolling Thunder, the sustained bombing of Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

At a brief orientation, Hall was told he’d be helping to build an atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bomb squad was called in several times to examine suspicious parcels. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

The building is three stories of solid brick with long windows on the first and second floors that have solid steel shutters that could be closed in case of atomic bomb blasts, riots, or invasion. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

He felt the blast forty-five seconds after the bomb was released. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I lean my chair back, letting it rest against the doorframe, and try to drop the B. cepacia bomb as casually as I can. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“There was a note wrapped around the brick. Apparently, the bombing in Springfield angered the perpetrator. The brick through the window was a kind of warning.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The bombs were all supposed to go off later, and in three waves, to make people think that the person behind the attacks was somewhere near the school, setting them off with a cell phone. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Don’t alarm yourself, Doctor. Fra Pavel has told me that the child is in another world. Please go on. The force of the bomb is directed by means of the hair?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Mother says while she was giving birth to me, there was a big uproar, with the announcement that the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

That year, its research in lightweight thermonuclear bombs came together with the navy’s urgent desire for a nuclear ballistic missile that could be launched from a forthcoming class of submarines with unprecedented range. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The bombs fell all through the night, and soon we all went back to sleep. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I had figured out that if the white people were so unwilling to share all the things like the buses, they certainly weren't going to share their bomb shelters with us. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The path he was interested in started down the side of a bombed house, fairly new, perhaps a railwayman's cottage rebuilt after the last time. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

How had they built an atomic bomb so quickly? Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just one. I don’t really understand it. On the ship they said it had to do with an atom. That’s why it’s called an ‘atomic bomb.’” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The country was on its way to building the atomic bomb. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

His tone was as normal as his snoring throughout the night had been, while she lay awake, sweating, imagining the sound of bombing. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But when York sent a proposal to test a twenty-megaton bomb to the White House for Eisenhower’s approval, he was crisply rebuffed. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

By the end of June, Nixon pulled the American troops out of Cambodia, but continued his secretive policies of bombing Cambodia and having Kissinger meet with the North Vietnamese. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The letter was dropped on Nagasaki with the plutonium bomb on August 9, 1945. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“What’s the name of that thing that always stops the bomb in the movies?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

As she got a bit older, still enduring the Luftwaffe’s bombs, her drawings showed curious little doodles. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Conant, who had come up with the idea, thought it could serve as a conduit to the Interim Committee for the views of bomb scientists who had become restless about the implications of their work. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Like so many other German cities, it had been heavily bombed by Allied forces during the war. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The volume was disappointing and the enrichment far below what was needed for a bomb core, but it was also far more than any other method had produced. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Well, a few of the people inside still knew how to make weapons. They made a bomb—you know, an explosive— and set it off in the government building,” she says. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Nothing could be worse than digging that fake bomb shelter. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Ellsberg watched a phosphorous bomb hit a house, and saw the explosion spread in the air like the petals of an enormous white flower. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Then it was used to make dynamite and bombs. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

“Digging our fancy new bomb shelter,” I replied without enthusiasm. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The bombing and marines were not having any noticeable effect on enemy momentum. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Breaking that grip was the key to stopping the German bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why did the sergeant bomb the village where the good people lived?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

We’d been met with small arms and machine gun fire, but no enemy bombs or shells were falling among us. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So what have you been doing? You get into the liquor? You leave a stink bomb somewhere?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The morning of the bombing my friends and I had looked forward to a Sunday afternoon Cavalettes club meeting. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Where a bomb had pierced the roof, sunlight fell down in broad beams. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

When they got to the target, they circled it twice in their small plane, heavy with the weight of the bombs hanging beneath its fabric wings. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I told her that the White House had not confirmed or denied reports that extensive bombing had started in major cities in South America. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The guerillas claimed they had planted the bomb because the pharmacy represented only “crumbs for the poor”—a mere token of assistance when in fact more substantial changes were needed. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

All the talk shows wanted him to speak about Diana and surviving the bombing. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The “rockets’ red glare” high part explodes in my ears, and my shoulders tense at “bombs bursting in air.” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

When the bombs rain down on the roof, I bury my face in my pillow, looking up again at a brief clip of me at the end, after all the victims are dead. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Hall then took the bomb core back to his cabin, hung it up again, and performed more tests. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was some talk as to whether there were cameras on board, looking down at the United States, and I heard one newscaster wonder out loud if maybe an atomic bomb might be aboard. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

And rather than picking up a pen and finding a solution, they turned to guns and bombs instead. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

So it was a Butterfinger Blizzard and then a stop at the shed for bottle rockets, for roman candles, for Black Cat crackers and cherry bombs. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

If Einstein sounded the alarm about the danger of a German atomic bomb, President Roosevelt might just listen. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bomb had hit the road less than eighty yards away. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Whereupon a silence, like the silence of Hiroshima ten minutes after the bomb, struck the men’s room with an audible thud. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Klan bombed the Shoreses’ brick ranch house on two different occasions. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She imagined Akira growing up, flying a plane and dropping a bomb. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

News of the atomic bomb quickly reached Joseph Stalin, the supreme ruler of the Soviet Union, at his headquarters in the Kremlin, in Moscow's Red Square. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then I threw in some big “bombs” with my bass drum foot. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Germany’s bombing campaign against London and other British cities backfired. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Ross and Jock have now lost both parents in the bombing, so perhaps I shall keep them when the war is over. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

To make matters worse, one night after a bombing mission, their aircraft got stuck at their intermediate airfield without food and low on fuel. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Q: Has any terrorist group taken credit for the bombing? Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Lawrence feared that the failure at Y-12 would destroy the army’s confidence in the entire bomb project, with billions of dollars—indeed, the entire war effort—hanging in the balance. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Every day the sirens screamed to tell us the bombs were coming. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The black-market came to an end at the very moment when the Presidential Palace was bombed, because speculators were threatened with martial law and execution by firing squad. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Being bombed at gave us the feeling we were like the soldiers fighting at the front,” said Irmgard Burmeister, eight years old when war began. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Millard was right—the skies were quiet, the battle had ended, but rolling drifts of bomb smoke still mixed with the clouds. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

It was on this very Formica table where you could still see the egg stains from my family’s breakfast that the bombs were made. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The first bomb was supposed to go off later. Everyone should have been out of the building by then. It was a mistake. It had to be a mistake.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Congress had prohibited him from any more bombing in Cambodia and limited his right to wage war. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Sadness had walked the streets with him while his cousins had described the people who had been bombed as they shopped at a market. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

For the flyboys of the air corps, airplanes were mechanisms for transporting troops and supplies to combat zones, armed wings for pursuing enemies, sky-high launching pads for ship-sinking bombs. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“I’m tired of airplanes and bombs and war!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

But inside my body I felt like a big bottle of warm Coke when you drop it in the grocery store and it begins to fizz out the top like a bomb about to blow. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

After spending a few days studying atomic bomb physics, Hall went to work with a team led by the Italian-born physicist Bruno Rossi. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The farther we got from the train station, the more evidence we saw of the bombs that had been raining down on London. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

This time it’s Gale who throws himself over me to provide one more layer of protection from the bombing. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The spring dust storms of the llano continued, and I heard many grown-ups blame the harsh winter and the sandstorms of spring on the new bomb that had been made to end the war. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Haven’t you noticed how hot it is? We think it was a bomb, a gas explosion, something.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

But none of them had signed on for bomb threats. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

This is about missiles and bombs and blowing things up. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Each of those dyads represents a potential time bomb that could explode in a murderous argument. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The bomb had demolished a group of houses two hundred meters up the street. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

And in the fiery skies above Russia, women drop bombs and fly fighter planes in aerial combat against German pilots. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The bomb was an exact copy of the American implosion bomb tested at Trinity, and the rising, twisting, pulsing ball of fire looked just the same. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finn threw his last smoke bomb over his shoulder, just in case any guards tried to follow. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

When the bombs hit the ground, the flammable napalm gel erupted in a huge, devastating fireball. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Someone planted a bomb in the cafeteria, just before the first Collection,” Cate said. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Ma then said that someone once tried to kill him by putting a bomb in our trashcan when I was one or two years old. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"A time bomb," Grace Wexler said, glaring at the person who delivered the gifts. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

That convinced the Soviets the information was correct, allowing them to move ahead quickly with bomb building. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He seized the envelope, and holding it before him like a bomb, sprinted out of the hall, while the Slytherin table exploded with laughter at the sight of him. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

In early December, Bush had brought together a small group to act as the bomb project’s civilian overseers: Conant, Briggs, Compton, Urey, and Lawrence. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

"I like when you call me Alice," Turtle said, "but I better not call you Mrs. Baumbach anymore, because of the bomb scare, you know." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Masks, the only gang remaining after Father’s war on crime, had set off a bomb in a shopping center. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Soviets wanted to know how far the German bomb project had gotten, and they wanted German scientists—willing or not—to help them with their own bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The energy of the bomb came from cutting the link between human and dæmon, and that meant the hideous process of intercision: the cages of mesh, the silver guillotine. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Szilard circulated a petition arguing on moral grounds against any deployment of the bomb at all. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Every night on the television news, Americans watched film from the Vietnam War: falling bombs, firefights, burning villages, the wounded on stretchers, and body bags loaded onto planes for the long flight home. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The “alpha racetracks” like this one at Oak Ridge separated fissionable U-235 from natural uranium at a high volume, though not enough to build more than a single bomb. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

She had a good reason to want to fight the Nazis: in 1941, her baby was killed when a German bomb hit the maternity hospital where she’d just given birth. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

When the child picked up the bomb and it detonated, Herbert ran across the street and found himself in a circle of grieving neighbors. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The year before, just after war was declared, the wards on the top floor had been closed down completely as a protection against bombing. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It was Groves’s job to make sure the bomb got built quickly, and in complete secrecy. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He returned to Germany, but by then his parents were dead, and everything they owned had been destroyed in the bombings. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He wasn't in the building when the first two bombs went off, or when the judge's watch was stolen, Jake Wexler thought. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or empty their bomb bays over a sleeping cottage by a railway, without knowing or caring who was there. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Q: How is it possible that humans invented something as amazing as an airplane and something as awful as a nuclear bomb? Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

They complained to their bosses in Berlin, saying that Germany needed to court friends in South America, not start bombing campaigns. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“He’s really a terrorist making pipe bombs. Go get in his truck and drive away. Drive it off a cliff.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The navigator also acted as bombardier, releasing the bombs over the target. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Of course that was in 1938 and they have all been bombed to bits since, so perhaps Beryl and her kiddies are dead already, in which case my tears of envy are very selfish. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

While bombs fell in the North, Nixon sent a blunt note to President Thieu in the South: the United States was going to make a deal with or without his consent. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The reason for the soliloquy here is that Morgenstern's previous book had gotten bombed by the critics and also hadn’t sold beans. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Just walking by a parked car, you couldn’t help wondering if there was a bomb hidden in its trunk. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

But under it all, she was a bomb with a fuse that had been lit and was waiting to explode. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

There was no button for “cherry bomb,” which is what the teachers invested a lot of energy preparing for at my old school. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

The quick, sudden terror of exploding bombs is not the same as the never-ending, bone-sapping fear of discovery and capture. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“I’m now going to go cry,” I said with my voice rising as I headed out the back door to continue digging the bomb shelter. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

All of them were sure I had been singed to nothing from what they’d heard on the radio about the bombing. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We shuffle into vacated seats as the minibus continues over a road pockmarked with bomb craters and littered with wrecked vehicles. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“A major change was called for in the work on the bomb itself,” Oppenheimer later explained. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Capable of the burglaries, perhaps, but not the bombings. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What if there was a nuclear bomb, and only the people in this room survived?” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

But the guards on the stage—the ones closest to the smoke bombs—just stumbled about, barely even managing to hold on to the Gustano kids. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

They told Einstein about the newest discoveries in fission and explained how uranium might be used to build devastating bombs. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

A new crisis erupted nearly every day with at least one of the bomb’s five-hundred-plus components. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ever since he read about this Swedish aristocrat who bombed Nigerian targets with his own small plane, he had wanted to meet him. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then everyone let go at the same time and the Po-2, heavy with bombs, struggled up from the sandy soil to climb above the pine or birch trees. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I could not run in a straight line, for there were craters in the streets from the bombing. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

She trained on-site at the airfield where the regiment was currently stationed, arming bombs and attaching them to the Pe-2s. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“I’m worried that they have not bombed us in a while,” Olanna said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

There is a dreary chain of causality: The Germans were working on the bomb at the beginning of World War II; so the Americans had to make one first. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All you ever think of is yourself. Go take a look at the bomb line if you want to see what’s been happening since you went to the hospital.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The bombings marked the eighth anniversary of American troops arriving in Saudi Arabia. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Over the next eleven days, the US Air Force flew 719 nighttime bombing raids over Hanoi and the harbor of Haiphong. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Do you remember the part where I said Iran and Iraq had been at war when I was a kid and when Saddam’s planes bombed our city, I was just a baby? Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

That would come to mean the Super: the thermonuclear, or hydrogen, bomb. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

They saw planes high over the port dropping their bombs. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Dad was injured at the Choke years ago, when a bomb dropped on his unit. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z

Not long after the Crowell house bombing, another close neighbor, Mrs. Ryles, came home from teaching school one day and saw a mysterious brown paper bag lying in the bushes by her front porch. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In the distance bombs explode like thunder, slashes lighten the sky, gunfire falls like rain. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Army to take over the atomic bomb project—code named the Manhattan Project, because its first offices were located in Manhattan. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They dropped their bombs and were glad to be able to make their way free of the eerie, dangerous sky. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“I’m friends with Marjorie, and she put up like eight pictures of you. Well, not of you, you’re just majorly photo bombing them.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Livermore was undergoing its transition from the MTA project to its role as the second bomb laboratory. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I watched one as it dove toward the hill, and pulled up just after releasing a bomb. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think it’s her signal that everything is okay, or status quo, and she’s just here to deliver an update, not to drop a bomb. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they explode, the bombs make craters in the earth the size of small ponds. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would rather be a poet than end up inside a bomb or a bottle of shampoo. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Next time bombs start falling, have your sister wear this,” she called to Sam. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Maybe, even, that was why Carroll got nailed, because somebody didn’t shoot enough, or maybe somebody didn’t order enough bombs dropped, or enough shells fired into some sector three months ago. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He determined the probability of this, found it to be low but not low enough for him, so now he always travels with a bomb in his suitcase. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Fuchs’s report reached Laboratory Number 2 near Moscow, it was read eagerly by Igor Kurchatov, lead physicist of Stalin’s atomic bomb program. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It looks like we were bombed,” she murmured. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

In theory, Serber explained, the design of the bomb could be very simple. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even with the shortages, and the blackout, and the bombs, and the rules, and daily life so drab and dull most of the time—once you cross the English Channel you are free. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

She twisted the lighting wires onto the bomb's and taped them off. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hall said he was helping to build an atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it came, the shrieking tones blew up like a pipe bomb between my ears. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Like the spirit of the city itself, it would take more than a few bombs to topple St. Paul’s. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Maybe the episode is about some evil people plotting to blow up Kunu Yaku, and his assignment is to find the bomb and save us all. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their campaign to “redeem” the South was reinforced by a resurgent Ku Klux Klan, which fought a terrorist campaign against Reconstruction governments and local leaders, complete with bombings, lynchings, and mob violence. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The course of the war had outrun work on the bomb, rendering the Allied scientists’ concerns about a Nazi bomb program increasingly irrelevant. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

A bomb crater yawned across the whole width of the street like a monstrous mouth with broken pavement for teeth. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Their early years must have been terrible, huddled in the chambers beneath the ground after their city was bombed to dust. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The armorers for the 587th sang as they fixed bombs to aircraft. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Ivanov then asked Eltenton what he knew about atomic bomb research being done at the University of California, Berkeley. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

For weeks the Soviet scientists had been privately discussing what would happen if this bomb test failed. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Forced to concede that an atomic bomb had destroyed Hiroshima, the German scientists began trying to figure how the bomb had been made. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

As it exited the armory, one antimatter friction-induction bomb was subtracted from the Sixers’ computerized inventory. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

They did not realize that in their hands they held a bomb, a force that would tear a hole in the world a mile wide. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

In the middle of Marina’s speech, the noise of bombs at the front could be heard clearly through the open windows. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“If it were not for domestic difficulties, we would have bombed them,” he said in September. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Sometimes when he’s bombing on me he’ll even forget about his rule, how we’re not supposed to hit each other in the face. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Though some people said she’d put the bomb in her own car, for sympathy. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

They deactivated land mines and used the bombs to blow up vehicles. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

And a month after that, German bombs fell again on Przemyśl. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

There was nothing to bomb her house or car with. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Thousands of French prisoners of war are shipped to Germany for forced labor in the German countryside, and Hitler sends the Luftwaffe to bomb Britain. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

I swear I shall weep with envy if I keep thinking about them, bombed to bits or otherwise. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“I knew we were not responsible for the bombing. That was not us. I told you that from the start.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jackson introduced them by alluding to their goal of making atom bombs cleaner, reporting “the gleam in the scientists’ eye of making them almost like Ivory Soap”—then adding wryly: “but not quite.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Somehow daily life continued despite the bomb blasts and killings. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Despite the occasional bombings in my city and the Jim Crow laws that were part of my daily reality, I felt safe as a child. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

They could hear Allied planes flying overhead and the occasional sound of bombs blowing up ground targets. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

A bomb means that there’s too much care involved, even if you mean to kill. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sudden news of building a bomb shelter threw her off. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“A bomb shelter,” he said out of the blue, and gazed aimlessly into the glossy sky. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The bombers released seven hundred bombs into the gorge on which the Vemork plant was perched. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We had to go out at all times, even when bombs were falling,” said Uwe Koster, who was thirteen at the time. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Even more distressing to Flerov was the idea of a German atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the bomb’s eerie light, General Farrell watched Oppenheimer’s reaction. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Monet has been transformed into a human virus bomb. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Never did we dream that shortly the bombs would fall on a faraway harbor whose name struck a chill across our own small, landlocked Pearl. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He included the bombings of black homes and businesses, teargassings, shootings, physical violence—all committed against black people between the months of March and September 1963. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The bomb line was a scarlet band of narrow satin ribbon that delineated the forwardmost position of the Allied ground forces in every sector of the Italian mainland. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I know, we came up here to get away from things— politics, the atom bomb, war, pressure groups, prejudice, laws—I know. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Truman accelerated the development of the "superbomb," or hydrogen bomb, a weapon that would be one thousand times as powerful as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Little good that did us, because once again the bombs rained down, this time on the other side of the city. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

By the time Ali Shekari was thirteen, the war planes were practicing dropping chemicals instead of regular bombs. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Was Hall really an American double-agent, feeding false data to the Soviets in order to make them waste their time and resources on bomb designs that wouldn’t work? Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was like dropping an atomic bomb on a town,” said former mayor Hank Avery, and the explosion was felt in Odessa. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He described as much as he knew about the organization of the Manhattan Project, saying he’d heard that the bomb design was happening at a secret site somewhere in New Mexico. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

We warmed up, running our lines and whatnot, and then the coach dropped the bomb on me. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

As the school bombings continued, he spoke out against them; he even went to the site of one school bombing while it was still a smoldering wreck. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“If this thing gets away from us it’s as full of explosives as an atom bomb. What are they planning to do, go over the mountains with choppers?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She imagined another air raid, bombs rolling out of a plane and exploding in the compound before she and Odenigbo and Baby and Ugwu could reach the bunker down the street. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

And it is rolling through this school like a stink bomb. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

A new impetus for the project had emerged: fears of a shortage of uranium ore, the raw material for the production of plutonium bomb cores. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

In other words, yellow fever is a “modern-day time bomb. We’re just sitting here waiting for it to happen.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

No bomb was found, and when the building didn't blow up after an hour and a half, we all filed back inside. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The books were about bombings and sky battles that had happened before Lily was even bom. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s right. Outside the Law Courts. It was bombed in— oh, many years ago. It was a church at one time. St. Clement’s Dane, its name was.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Cohen’s tissue box held Hall’s handwritten report, with detailed plans and sketches of an atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they were dropping bombs all around us. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

They bombed with their landing lights on, since no one was shooting back. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“I don’t even know for sure that he was in the school when the bombs went off. He probably stood me up.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

A loud bomb of a wave crashes into the shore below as if to confirm this. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I told her about our atomic bomb drills and about our town and about The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

When the conversation turns to how it felt to translate our skill with weapons to the bombing in 8, I stop talking. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“It was hard to believe what we were seeing, even when we were staring right at it. Was there really only one bomb?” he asked. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I have an announcement to make. We have just dropped a new bomb on Japan which has more power than twenty thousand tons of TNT. It has been an overwhelming success!” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had just wanted him to realize what could have happened had she been in the building when the bomb went off. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The Soviets had no way of knowing that Oppenheimer had just been named the scientific director of the American atomic bomb project, but they knew he was a top American physicist. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

And yet my old life was as impossible to return to as the children’s bombed house. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Funny or not, the bombs kept falling and the winter was cold and the people were hungry. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Even though they’re not held captive in an attic or dodging bombs in a basement, the violence permeating the streets is just as frightening—and just as real. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

A single human virus bomb had walked into the hospital’s waiting room and exploded there, and the event had put the hospital out of business. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Earlier in the year, a new provocation had revived international protests against the bomb. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The yield of the Hiroshima bomb was only thirteen kilotons, the equivalent of thirteen thousand tons of TNT. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took first shot and killed about thirty of mine with an atomic bomb. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Americans had not yet “broken the atomic secret” and did not know if they would “beat the Nazis” to the atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

To Soviet physicists like Flerov, this made it vitally important that the Soviet Union develop its own atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Back on Tinian, the second atomic bomb was being assembled even as the world was learning about the first,” remembered Paul Tibbets. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Gentlemen,” Nixon said to the gathered men, “we have reached the point where a decision is required: to bomb or not to bomb.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The sound was muffled, not loud and earth shattering like the bombs I had heard so many times when Klan members dynamited black homes and businesses throughout the city. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Find a radio. Just this morning. They bombed Hawaii.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

To remember the circumstances under which he created the bomb. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

They were devastating and primarily leveled both cities, but little was told to the public then except that a new kind of bomb had been used against the Japanese. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

And the next morning a telegram from southern Japan reached Tokyo: “The whole city of Hiroshima was destroyed instantly by a single bomb.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Murray also advocated development of a “clean bomb”—a device that could somehow deliver the destructive force of a nuclear blast minus the fallout. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

"God will be our bomb shelter," she claimed. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

We laugh, running across the grass as tiny water bombs drop from the sky. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“You have two hours to get footage showing the damage from the bombing, establish that Thirteen’s military unit remains not only functional but dominant, and, most important, that the Mockingjay is still alive. Any questions?” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I dropped mix tapes and notes on her palace from the air, like lovesick bombs. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The bomb was armed—and set to explode in twenty minutes. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of these youths were beginning to infiltrate back into the country in sorties, armed with submachine guns, bombs and other sophisticated weapons. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the late twentieth century, two megatons was the energy released in the explosion of a single more or less humdrum thermonuclear bomb: one bomb with the destructive force of the Second World War. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The news stories always put me right back into my pity pot, though, showing me again and again that I needed a bomb shelter. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

"Should Russia use the relatively simple and completely proven process of refueling in flight," he observed, "she would now have the capacity to deliver the bomb" into the American homeland. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

No Persian can get up early enough in the morning to bomb anything. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Invisible inside this, the Turkish jets reached the island and began dropping their bombs. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Byrnes, who up to then had viewed the atomic bomb largely as an abstract device useful for bargaining with the Russians, would recall that Oppenheimer’s astonishing figures left him “thoroughly frightened.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The work, Wilson explained, had to do with uranium and fission and a whole new kind of bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Haukelid climbed into a car with the British officers, and they drove though a city battered by German bombs. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead the bomb shelter made me chew on my lip with dread because it was all about death. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

If it got stuck, the navigator had to climb out of her cockpit onto the plane’s lower wing in the dark sky full of gunfire and jiggle the bomb free with her own two hands. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“We have no choice,” Kissinger advised, “but to step up our bombing as a means of making them agree.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

My running had caused the beautiful cake to crack like a bombed sidewalk. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The design for the uranium bomb was complete, and the plutonium bomb was nearly done. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the reconstituted S-l committee finally got atomic bomb planning under way, its members met at the exclusive Bohemian Grove in California in September 1942, with Lawrence as host. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

This could have been the work of a cherry bomb. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was a bomb, Semyonov said, a weapon of almost unimaginable power. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yep, we need a bomb shelter. The Russian Commies say they are planning to bury us, but I’ve got news for them—we are going to survive whatever atom bomb attack they throw our way.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Both contained thorough reports on atomic bomb design. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ran and jumped into the shallow bomb shelter, then flipped myself over and peeked up over the edge. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

What Haukelid did not yet know was that a remote factory perched on the side of a cliff in Norway was the key to Germany’s top-secret atomic bomb project. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jokes like “Oh, don’t worry, they can’t all fall on him” or “One bomb is all it takes” are hardly appropriate in this situation. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Haven’t you seen the bomb craters all around the bank? My money is staying under my bed.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The convoy had entered a bombed village, or perhaps the suburb of a small town—the place was rubble and it was impossible to tell. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The heavy water equipment had been destroyed, dealing a serious blow to German bomb research. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

One, the Germans had not come close to building an atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

The bombs have collapsed the hospital roof and set the building on fire, effectively trapping the patients within. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Inside was the gun assembly for the uranium bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was it because white people had, as I had seen in movies, guns, swords, bombs and tanks? Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

My music teacher, Mrs. Hinton, told me that our folks had a lot more important things to worry about than a bomb shelter. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He wants me to talk about the church—share its history and tell my story about the bombing. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But what Kurchatov really needed was specific information on bomb design, and there was only one place to get it. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They called me that because I used to set off bombs in the bathroom. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“President Snow says he’s sending us a message? Well, I have one for him. You can torture us and bomb us and burn our districts to the ground, but do you see that?” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Dad explained that they were taking the bulk of their profits and reconsecrating them to God in the form of supplies—food, fuel, maybe even a real bomb shelter. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The bombings and terrorism in Birmingham intensified in the early 1960s. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Irina was assigned to become an armorer, loading bombs and guns and doing necessary maintenance work. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

After Trinity, the drive toward the bombing of Japan proceeded without further consultation with the scientific panel. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

We knew a bomb had exploded in our church, but we didn’t know why. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not a bomb. If it was a bomb, we’d all be in those underground shelter places.” Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

“We can drench them from the air,” I said, including myself in the bombing raid. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Polina was a new pilot on her very first bombing mission. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Almost every sentence included the word bomb, which began to worry Oppenheimer. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the regiments would need armorers to load bombs and machine guns, and the fighter and dive-bomber regiments would also need radio technicians and parachute packers. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I was ready to run if Lice came out bombed or acting crazy. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Vin sneaks down to the generator room and pulls a homemade bomb out of his gym bag. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

But Hanako did not feel assured, even when he added, “We’re headed to where the small villages are. Why would they bomb those?” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Apparently, before the bombing Chambliss had told her, ‘Just wait until after Sunday morning. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The bomb shelter subject stuck in my brain. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“The police must have jammed the cell-phone signal for the school. They must want to cut off any contact the bomber would have with the bombs or anyone outside who might be helping him.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

When that bomb fell on Hiroshima, it destroyed the whole city. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

In August of 1982, activist Ruth First was opening her mail in Maputo, where she was living in exile, when she was murdered by a letter bomb. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now the men distributed the guns and bombs, and their squad leader went over the details of the mission. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

A bomb had landed in the middle of the camp, near the Appelplatz, the assembly point, but had not exploded. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

His school held terrifying air-raid drills, and in each classroom was a large bucket of sand—to be used to extinguish fires sparked by incendiary bombs. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I watch her lips as they curl into a smile."You're so kind,"she says."And does everyone around here know how to make a dust bomb?" Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“You failed to mention Indochinese casualties, or refugees, or bombing tonnages, which in fact are trending up,” he said. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

But I have not seen any planes in the sky and have heard no bombs dropped. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were depressed and on edge, still shaken up about September 11, and then re-shaken when someone tried to blow up another plane by hiding a bomb in his shoes two days before Christmas Eve. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The Allied bombers also hammered away at Germany’s industrial centers, bombing cities such as Berlin, Hamburg, Dortmund, Leipzig, and Essen. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then, boom, like a bomb exploding, the storm’s back. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

The plan was that Nadya and Katya would drop their bombs while Marina and Olga, flying two minutes ahead of them, would have the terrifying task of purposefully attracting enemy fire. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Lloyd: How long do you think a nuclear bomb would last? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

More to the point, the bomb program was moving toward a concrete conclusion, with plans laid for a decisive test in the desert. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He spread top-secret bomb plans on his desk so he could refer to them as he wrote up his report. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I signal left to turn onto our street, and the sound of the blinker makes me feel like a friggin’ bomb is about to go off. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

This is the same Princess that defied the bombs in London, the one that is brave and heroic. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“But suppose an atomic bomb was really coming down, right on top of Camillo Junior High?” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The undertone of fear that San Francisco would be bombed which was abetted by weekly air raid warnings, and civil defense drills in school, heightened my sense of belonging. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

And unlike Dad’s shows, where enthusiastic fans jumped the stage and then dive- bombed into the crowd, there was always a wall between the audience and me. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still right today, on my home telephone, if I said, “I’m going to bomb the Empire State Building,” I guarantee you in five minutes it would be surrounded. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a night full of bombing, the air seemed oddly still. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

In this room there was an enormous human bomb in front of them which was liable to explode and blow someone to bits any moment. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

The next day, President Johnson declared a Christmas ceasefire in Vietnam, and the bombs stopped dropping. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

But the planes went away and the bombs stopped falling, and the train started to move again. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“With the release of the bomb, the plane was instantly nine thousand pounds lighter,” Tibbets said. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if Americans succeeded in building atomic bombs and they were the only ones to have them? Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

You’re safer in here than out there, bombs and what not. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t want to think about his old house, his scars, the bomb. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

A dreadful, chilling whine is heard as the bombs are released overhead. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“We need these plans. And in case you’ve forgotten, one of my flash bombs helped get us out of the Ketterdam harbor.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

And then I remember after the first bombing, how I didn’t believe the stories of the Jews shot in the cemetery. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

We watch this movie Mad Max, with all these people living in a desert ’cause humans bombed the cities or something. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Continuous bombing of Pas de Calais and the west coast of France. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Alone and unprotected, they were beaten violently, and their bus was bombed. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Hollow wood handles on the bottom, high- explosive charges in a steel can on top—handheld bombs the boys at Schulpforta called potato mashers. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He was one of the first to see–possibly the very first–that the power inherent in the atom could, if harnessed, make bombs powerful enough to "make this old world vanish in smoke." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Several men stood guard, looking out into the sleet-filled dark with rifles at the ready, while others opened the wooden crate containing the bomb and made it ready for the cable. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

And the smoke bombs were just kids’ toys. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Coulter hurled herself toward the bomb, feeling the smoke attack her nose and throat like claws: tear gas. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

And he knew that when the fighting flared up again, Nixon would likely resume the American bombing missions. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Nixon was convinced he could force concessions from the Communists in the Paris peace talks with heavy bombing in Cambodia. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

A bomb exploded at the Federal Building in Springfield. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The rumble of bombs had quieted and the sirens had finally wound down, and I wondered if all that apocalyptic noise had been keeping me awake. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Teller believed a promising option to fuel a Super bomb would be to use tritium, a superheavy isotope of hydrogen. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The soldiers told us we had to leave because the United States was going to bomb our city. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last hope that something might postpone our returning to the outside world was extinguished on August 6 when the atomic bomb fell on Hiroshima. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The French coast was bombarded with 5,500 tons of bombs during the night, and then, at six in the morning, the first landing craft came ashore. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Esme laughed and clapped her hands, and when a bomb fell close by a moment later, causing the clay man to lose his balance and fall into the tub, she only laughed harder. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

In March, the banker and real estate mogul Jesse Binga was the target of two bombs, one at his real estate office, one at a property on his listings. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Airplanes flew overhead but no bombs fell from them. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The television crew means to provide a sense of heightened jeopardy by releasing smoke bombs and adding gunfire sound effects. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

They pooled their resources and purchased two very expensive, very powerful antimatter bombs on eBay. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“We had these highly motivated individuals—radar operators and pilots—who would miss attacks or drop bombs on the wrong cities. Why did they fail?” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Because they think there could be more bombs.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“I’m warning you, Peeves —” Peeves stuck out his tongue, threw the last of his water bombs into the air, and zoomed off up the marble staircase, cackling insanely. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I even had heard mention of new giant bombs being prepared. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was always so hot, and everyone was so polite, and everything was all suiface hut underneath it was like a bomb waiting to go off. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since the war ended, newspapers had been free to tell the public that the atomic bomb had been built by scientists at Los Alamos, led by Robert Oppenheimer. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tell him to dump his leftover bombs in the sea if he’s got any, so he doesn’t set them off when he lands.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

If things work out they hope to establish three atomic research and atom bomb depots on Mars. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hitler has declared war on Poland, and even now, as the RRG broadcasts the news, the Luftwaffe is bombing Poland by air, supported by tanks and infantry. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

If the bomb should fall and wipe out every living thing except Miss Brace, George would be happy. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Really? And was it part of her plan for Johanna to nearly kill her? For that electric shock to paralyze her? To trigger the bombing?” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He had planned to run to his girlfriend's aid when the bomb exploded to reinforce his readiness to protect her and to keep her safe. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

As far as he knew, the American program for the Super, the thermonuclear bomb, had stagnated. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Every group had stories of terrible peril: boys who had been hurt or killed by bullets or bombs, attacked by wild animals, or left behind because they were too weak or sick to keep up. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been beaten by mobs and thrown in jail, and his house had been bombed. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the night Yossarian knocked on wood, crossed his fingers, and tiptoed out of his tent to move the bomb line up over Bologna. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

My worries about having a bomb shelter and about the war in Korea began to grow again because there was so much talk about General MacArthur on the television news. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Ever since we’d started bomb drills at school, I couldn’t help thinking my days were numbered. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tanks placed around the tower to test the bomb’s strength were tossed into the air. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The scientists therefore were justified in thinking that a final decision on dropping the bomb would await their further inpur. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It felt like everybody was holding their breath, waiting for a bomb to go off. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Stacie said she saw him with his shirt off after soccer practice one day and thought he was fine. She said—and I quote—he was the bomb diggity.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A nurse who used to work in the hospital before it was bombed has made up camp beds for us. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

I bombed their roofs with acorns in equal number. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

For five months, heavy bombs dropped on that little island almost every minute. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She went from high school to digging trenches, then escorted other citizens to shelter during Leningrad’s long siege of bombing and starvation. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Three weeks later, two American atomic bombs forced Japan to surrender. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Those bombs can penetrate even a deep shelter.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing opened wide the eyes of the United States to racial injustice. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Within perhaps a week,” recalled a student, “there was on the blackboard in Robert Oppenheimer’s office a drawing—a very bad, an execrable drawing—of a bomb.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Minerva drops hints as big as bombs, Papa always says. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He got the pants up and said, “A guy just came by and said somebody dropped a bomb on Joey’s church.” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the Allies were going to use the bomb against Japan, they wanted it to have maximum shock value—they wanted it to come out of nowhere. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He reads about U.S. planes bombing Vietcong supply routes in Cambodia, Naxalites being murdered on the streets of Calcutta, India and Pakistan going to war. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then came the roar of the airplanes, and the bombing began. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever the reason, the German troops at the front invented a name for the young women of the 46th Guards, who bombed them so relentlessly, three hundred times a night throughout the war. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

They look at her like she’s got a bomb strapped to her chest. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Then we were bombed by a Jackboot airplane. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

But one night, the bombs began to fall. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Walking by some abandoned houses—looks like some Scud missiles just bombed them out. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, regular bomb. Only two atomic bomb. The other in Nagasaki.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Then he looked out at the neighborhood-—and knew this had been no ordinary bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Insurgents had sprung up in these camps, and some believed that they were the intelligence behind the bombings that had pounded the country before the parliamentary elections. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

I'd been thinking about Martin in a new way ever since the embassy bombings. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

She considered herself a failure for not having stopped the wind bomb from exploding; but the truth was, she’d saved the entire crew from becoming ice sculptures in Quebec. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Him fella bomb fall too far to hurt we. I hear him coming long time. Want fruit?” Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He encouraged Nixon to “start bombing the bejesus out of them.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Probably, German physicists were already working on an atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone had thrown flaming Molotov cocktail gasoline bombs through the front picture window. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He jerked the wheel, and the entire truck tilted like a bomb had gone off underneath it. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Dads all at work on the ships, bombs droppin’ night and day, kiddies never been out o’ the tenements in their lives. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“I think it’s conceivable that such an action could interfere with your chances of having the prayers for a tighter bomb pattern answered.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Blue rinse was the slang term for the devastating biological bomb used on rare occasions by the force. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

And if either of them heard...well, put me under that bomb. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I lived in a climate of relative security—if you don’t consider the Klan’s random bombings in my area—until more visible signs of unrest and change came to Birmingham in the early sixties. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The blast brought a number of police officers to the area to search for the bomb site. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But after the church bombing, nothing seemed the same anymore, including the way I viewed myself, others, and the world. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

My brother and I worked through the nights on a machine that made casings for the detonators on bombs. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The separation technique, implemented at Oak Ridge, would produce the uranium core for the Hiroshima bomb. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Rashid and Frankie and Z had told the FBI and the cops and everyone else who interviewed them what she had said before letting them all leave and setting off the final bomb. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Caden,” says Carlyle carefully, like he’s trying to figure out whether to cut the yellow or the blue wire on a bomb. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Our planes were now bombing the enemy’s homeland. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But they seem more like threatening calls than just prankster calls. The callers say they are going to bomb the church.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Had Chadwell been homesick for this sight as he dropped his bombs into the jungle? The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

He was dive-bombing a house like the Japanese did when they bombed Pearl Harbor. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The bombings in Birmingham began the year I was born, 1948. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered what it would be like if a plane bombed it in the daytime. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

One-third of it has been sheared off by the strength of the bomb. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Furious that Germany attacked civilians, the British retaliated, bombing Berlin the next day. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

With their sonarlike senses, the brothers had discovered a low wall of reinforced concrete—it had sounded hard—and pulled Melina behind it just as the bomb exploded. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Heisenberg’s belief that Germany would lose was another piece of evidence suggesting that Hitler was not about to unleash atomic bombs. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then the bombs started to fall and everyone started running.” Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Market day looks like you just came out of your fallout shelter after the bomb attack: nobody there but a few old guys with car parts and knives and cookpots, hoping to trade for food. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, as she was braking to a halt, one of her wheels hit a bomb crater and the aircraft flipped upside down. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

"What every household needs: a shower like a car wash, keys ticking like a bomb, luggage on a leash!" How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The quest for the bomb was now fully under way. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

During a rally on May 4 to support workers seeking an eight-hour workday, a pipe bomb exploded in Chicago’s Haymarket Square, panicking both the demonstrators and the police, who opened fire. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

The Washington visit launched Lawrence into the role of the hydrogen bomb’s most prominent and credible promoter. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He repeated Oliphant’s fears that the Nazis were counting on their own atomic bomb to decide the war. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The Taliban bombed us, and then the power went out for an hour, at least. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The camera glides over the cities of my past, capturing their energetic skylines just before they're destroyed by the terrorist's bomb or advancing alien warship. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The train stopped, and suddenly I had a vision of a bomb falling right on us, killing us all. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

But he made that prediction before the bombs fell—indeed, it was during that grim period when the failure of the Alpha racetracks had laid him out in a Chicago hospital room. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The committee made short work of US concerns that the bomb might come too late to affect the war. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

They had been killed by bullets or bombs, starvation or sickness—it did not matter how. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The panel, to its own dismay, could conceive of no alternative to bombing Japan. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

But after months of fighting, an American bomb dropped near him, and threw a chunk of metal into his pants, hitting him right in the backside. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Their mission was to bomb the German troops by day. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Not too sure I wouldn’t be bombed before I reached Bailey and Mother. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alba miraculously rescued Jaime’s car, which had survived the bombing and had been sitting for a week where he had parked it. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You're a chemist. Can you make a bomb out of stuff on board?" The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another bomb fell on a piece of waste ground which was used as a playground and several dozen children were blown to pieces. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Thanks to modern developments in armor, American service members were now surviving bomb blasts that would once have killed them. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Skylarks sang in the fields around them, but every night the air raid sirens wailed in the darkness as the Luftwaffe planes tried to bomb the nearby city. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, they bombed,” said the man. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Imagine what these vandals have reduced us to. Pamela and I sometimes sleep here when they bomb us,” Mrs. Ezeka said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Almost immediately I heard Mrs. Crowell screaming—she was trying to wake up her family and get them out of the house in case another bomb exploded. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

If he couldn’t see the target, he was not to release his irreplaceable bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, I was just the lone digger of a fake atomic bomb shelter. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I don’t think that any of us really believed that Leonid Brezhnev was sitting in the deep, dark rooms of the Kremlin, plotting to drop an atomic bomb on Camillo Junior High. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

If Hitler got his hands on atomic bombs, that would be the end of the Soviet Union. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their goal was to figure out the basics of how an atomic bomb might work, and what materials would be needed. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1923, after the Smith bombing, the Osage tribe began to urge the federal government to send investigators who, unlike the sheriff or Davis, had no ties to the county or to state officials. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

On August 1, in an air-conditioned hut, they assembled the uranium bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The gemstone was a bomb. They tricked me. They wanted me to deliver a bomb to Tenebrion without even knowing it.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

When the bombing occurred, Hale had been in Texas, and he now saw the charred detritus of the house, which resembled a wreckage of war—“a horrible monument,” as one investigator called it. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

If it were just a matter of counting casualties, the decision to drop the bomb would have been much simpler. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

But that’s not fair, to put others in the hospital at risk of me, the ticking time bomb. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

We listen to Dotty and wonder what all this has to do with the state of the world with the Germans marching everywhere and bombing everything that stands. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The explosion from the bomb in our trashcan knocked down the walls of our kitchen, but luckily no one was hurt. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Known as "front-line winged rockets," each of these missiles contained a warhead equal in power to the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Fadi knew her mind was wrapped up in the recent bombing of eastern Afghanistan. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

He was in favor of increased bombings, of bombing North Vietnam back into the Stone Age, if it refused to see reason. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had thought, for a little while, when the bombs fell, that maybe we might come out on top. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Knowing that now they might be flying a suicide mission, they decided to land with their bombs still attached to their plane. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

To ensure secrecy held up, Nixon had the Air Force falsify reports on the bombing runs to look as if they took place over South Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

She spoke with people who had been forced to come to the city after their villages had been destroyed by American bombs, their crops wiped out by Agent Orange. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Leo Szilard felt deeply the difficulty of balancing the imperative to build the bomb with humanitarian concerns about its use. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The report discussed three possible military applications for fissionable uranium: dropping radioactive materials over enemy territory; generating power for submarines and other oceangoing vessels; and development of a bomb based on U-235. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“So, you aced the quiz and then bombed the follow- up?” she said to me, indignation decorating her words. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

While bombs were secretly dropped on Cambodia, Callie did what she could to keep her own secrets. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

We wandered the streets, among the people and bomb craters, chewing dried fish. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“To test or not to test the plutonium bomb was a very hot issue,” George Kistiakowsky remembered. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a full nuclear exchange, in the paroxysm of thermonuclear war, the equivalent of a million Hiroshima bombs would be dropped all over the world. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

One single bombing raid over Japan’s capital of Tokyo set off a firestorm that killed 100,000 people. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watch for a long time from behind a pile of rubble still left from a German bomb, but I don’t see the policeman. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Seventy-five kilometers to the south, at the start of the occupation two and a half years ago, the German planes bombed Rotterdam, killing nine hundred civilians and much of the city's architecture. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

For six months, the 586th Regiment had been defending strategic positions in their dangerous solo Yak fighters and the 588th Regiment had been harassing German troops with bombs dropped from their flimsy Po-2s. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

They must have been staying there, working late, perhaps getting some last-minute things done before the people from Washington came, when the bombing began. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The Los Alamos lab, recently established under Oppenheimer’s leadership, tripled to 40 kilograms its estimate of the quantity of U-235 needed for a bomb. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Church records placed membership numbers over eight hundred before the bombing; after the bombing, that number shrank by 50 percent. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I want to know what's in the box. What if it's a bomb?” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, just after the gut-shaking boom of a jet, you could see the bombs arc down and, if the wind was just right, the sound would be somewhere in between thunder and a cymbal clash. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Terrorists once again bombed the home of Reverend Graetz—especially despised by many as a white clergyman who openly supported black rights. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

And yet, if a bomb had fallen on the blocks, it would have claimed hundreds of inmates’ lives. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nevertheless, island civilians must do whatever they can independent of naval and military aid to safeguard their homes and businesses against sabotage or bombing.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I believe the bombing somehow damaged my little brother. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The problem was how to get Lyra’s hair out of the bomb before they set it off. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Plutonium, they discovered, will fission even faster than U-235, so it could also be used for building atomic bombs. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Would the bomb inside go off if she dropped it? Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

That was Daniel Ellsberg’s response to the renewed bombing—the “Christmas Bombing” as the press dubbed it. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

President Johnson was saying that the United States was willing to stop its bombing if the North Vietnamese were ready to begin serious talks. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was snapping pictures as a demolition team came in to defuse the bomb. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

So they’d have to remove the lock of hair after the bomb was set up. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Ever since Harry had come home for the summer holidays, Uncle Vernon had been treating him like a bomb that might go off at any moment, because Harry Potter wasn’t a normal boy. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

It was odd to think: not that long ago, bombs were dropping here. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Hiskey suddenly found himself drafted into the army and shipped to a remote military base in the Northwest Territories of Canada—far from atomic bomb secrets. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Szilard was convinced that a bomb was possible and, given Hitler’s goal of conquering the world, even probable. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

According to its auction listing, the Cataclyst was a sort of magical bomb, and it could be used only once. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

According to the CIA, the bombing campaign was costing the United States nine dollars and sixty cents for every one dollar of damage inflicted on North Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Heather buys the stuff to make mermaid water—a Big Blue bath bomb and a Sunnyside bubble bar. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Besides, his number one worry was to build an atomic bomb before Hitler did. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bullets and bombs might come again another day, but for now we were alive. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

They walked to school without incident, though Moss would have been hard-pressed to have noticed the detonation of an atom bomb that morning. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“You are already punished and have to dig this bomb shelter, so how much worse can they make it for you?” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Among them were Alvarez and Serber, who had been sharing a tent on Tinian for two months, preparing for their assignment tending gauges to be dropped by parachute with the bomb itself. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“And James lit a firecracker instead of a stink bomb. Like, a big, pink, bursting-in-the-sky firecracker.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

But that wouldn’t stop the Soviet Union from building an atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day a bomb will explode, and you will not escape it. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Close examination of the scene revealed the blown-apart body of the terrorist, who had evidently tripped and fallen upon the bomb just as it went off. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The wand exploded with the force of a small bomb. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Of course, it is the planned escape route from the bomb that hasn’t been dropped. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or the children who have been killed by bombs and bullets. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

We bayonet the others before they have time to get out their bombs. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the atomic bomb could shock Japan into giving up, it had to be used. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I just bombed me some Spanish,” Radar said. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Candice had just reached the part where a second bomb went off when the phone rang. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He’d seen Tad’s face when he realized there was a bomb in the locker. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The first bomb took down the outer shield, and the second bomb finished the job. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

And he aimed another bomb at a group of second years who had just arrived. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

While the deacons clawed at the pile of broken glass and bricks, Reverend prayed aloud that another bomb had not been planted and that God would keep them safe. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay, and my picture reminds me that no one thinks about the tragedy that results when places are bombed,” Lauren says. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Deborah heard those things and imagined her mother on the moon and being blown up by bombs. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

A bomb robot had been brought in and was entering the building now, and everyone was waiting to see what would happen next. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Though dubbed a “front-page detective” for his incessant self-promotion, he had an impressive track record, including catching those responsible for the 1910 bombing of the headquarters of the Los Angeles Times, which killed twenty people. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

On the far horizon, the sky was hazy from the smoke of the bombs. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Walked with a crutch even before she broke her ankle in the second bombing. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Along with other white supremacist groups, the Klan began murdering African American men, women, and children by setting fire to homes, bombing churches, and lynching blacks on a scale never before witnessed. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

June 2: In seven US cities, anarchists send mail bombs to prominent figures. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“That averages out to almost one combat mission every two months. And I’ll bet your total doesn’t include the time you bombed us.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

While escalating the bombing, he continually increased troop levels. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“I made a conclusion,” he said, “that I myself, although I was not a very good craftsman, I could have built a bomb with this data—if I had certain materials, of course.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although I had heard her right, heard her say he was found dead on his office desk, I asked, “Did he get a letter bomb? Was it a letter bomb?’ Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Here’s a fun fact,” Mr. Chang says, “if humans bomb the planet with their nuclear arsenal, the only life left on Earth will be cockroaches. Only they can survive the toxic fallout.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Whether it could shoulder all the demands of a full-scale bomb program was still in doubt. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Powerful white men—state and city leaders, as well as the Klan-infiltrated police department—used intimidation and bombs to keep blacks and whites separated. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

How he has shot very influential men in cold blood and dropped fire bombs from the air that can burn up a whole field of crops in ten seconds flat. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Germans were shocked, never imagining that British bombs could reach them. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

For three days, the Japanese bombed and strafed the atoll. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

The Ku Klux Klan reasserted itself as a powerful terrorist organization, committing castrations, killings, and the bombing of black homes and churches. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

They had already passed away when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

So, in a gun assembly bomb, the chain reaction would start even before the two lumps of plutonium came completely together. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There is going to be a prayer at the mosque tonight for the victims of the bombing. We’ll also be doing a fund-raiser. We want you to come,” my mom says. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Billy was not moved to protest the bombing of North Vietnam, did not shudder about the hideous things he himself had seen bombing do. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How much will you have to pay her not to get mad that you aren’t really building a bomb shelter?” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Placing a bomb anywhere in Dothan, even in a poor section of town, posed a different kind of threat than “typical” domestic violence. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The story described the supposedly secret American bombing raids in Cambodia. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

But many viewed more equivocally the Super bomb program in which the reactor program was embedded. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

His scientists were wrestling with the challenge of building a plutonium bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sounds of assault rifles and atom bombs got louder in Frank’s head. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

When the uranium atoms in the bomb split, some would break down into other radioactive elements—atoms that would continue shooting out particles. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oppenheimer was uncomfortable with the entire discussion, for he considered the question of the bomb’s deployment to be outside the scientists’ expertise. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Didn’t they show enough war stuff on the news between the protests here and the shooting, bombing, and dying in Vietnam? Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“Steamer” was a nickname which, for some reason, the proles applied to rocket bombs. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The bomb was there, he knew, sitting atop a steel tower. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arguments about going hungry, dying, bombs, fire extinguishers, sleeping bags, identity cards, poison gas, etc., etc. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

By then, the city glowed, ablaze from Allied bombing. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The explanation was simple: clouds had covered the target before the planes could bomb it, and the mission to Bologna was still to be flown. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Hyacinth bath bombs, and one called Cheer Up Buttercup. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

For some reason he thinks our parents are a lot scarier than they really are...but then again, this isn’t the routine spoiled dinner, stink bomb, or broken window. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

And two weeks after that, the first German bombs fell on Przemyśl. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

If you forgot to pay attention to it the lid would blow off like a bomb, and the carrots and potatoes would be hurled to the ceiling, where they’d stick like mush. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I try to tell myself that I’m not like Mom, that I’m not a bomb. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Yet within fifteen minutes, the sky was filled with hoverplanes and the bombs were raining down. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Enough to let him know she didn’t want to fire but there was still the bag and the bomb inside it. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

But if he was looking to set off a bomb he’d already planted... Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

In the air, Allied planes based in Great Britain were raining bombs on German cities and industrial sites, killing tens of thousands of civilians. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“It sounds like maybe they set the timer wrong or something. But the jury was convinced he planted the bomb that murdered Denise and the other girls.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Like a neutron bomb’s vaporized human life but left all the buildings standing. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

As part of his search for a way into the America bomb project, he turned to his best courier, Harry Gold. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“An impressive pipe bomb, to be sure,” he mused. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

In just a few minutes, he had made a rudimentary pipe bomb. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twice, a delegation of black ministers tried to file a complaint about the bombings but was not allowed to see the mayor. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The problem was, he was going to have to rely on physicists to figure out how to build the bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

One hit a bomb shelter, killing sixteen Norwegians. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then they began putting up a white tent around the bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I came away from the January negotiations,” Kissinger later noted, “with the feeling that we would have to bomb the North Vietnamese again in early April or May.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Soon word came to us from the Polish car behind us: The last car on the train had been hit with a bomb. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The bomb had not come to rest atop Adam’s finger, as it usually did, but had split him straight down the middle and exploded. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He’s stress-eaten most of a pork roast and he’s been hitting the supply of wine and salami like it’s the war and the bombs are dropping, so what the hell. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I wonder what would have to happen for them to come in here—a bomb blast? All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I clenched my teeth, waiting for a bomb blast to tear us apart. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

She looks as cool as the bath bomb. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Maybe this year he has only lit the fuse on a bomb that the victors themselves have been building. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“If they are right and there is another bomb, the bomber would want to make sure it went off.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“I was just thinking about what an extraordinary thing it was to be driving along there in just an ordinary car,” remembered Morrison, “and yet we were carrying the core of the first atomic bomb.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

How can children gather for a game of cricket if a bomb could go off under their feet? Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

This time they were going south, first through the gap to where the Amish lived to see how they had come through the bombing. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He nodded at Hermione, and at the same moment, a blast like a bomb sounded from the campsite, and a flash of green light momentarily lit the trees around them. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“What if German scientists succeed in making a nuclear bomb before we even investigate possibilities?” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Maybe they left the house before the bomb fell,” I suggested. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My uncle flies a big plane that drops bombs,” Billy said. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The one other time Alex could remember getting sent home early was when someone set off a stink bomb last year in the girls’ bathroom. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

But my hopes disappeared when flare bombs lit up the darkness and formed a dome of light in the sky. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Still, even years later, no one spoke about the Crowell house bombing. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I think it’s about a bomb in New York City,” Tommy said. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Lyndon Johnson had halted the bombing of North Vietnam four years before. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“We are going on a mission to drop a bomb different from any you have ever seen or heard about. This bomb contains a destructive force equivalent to twenty thousand tons of TNT.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The land was in the desert near where nuclear bomb tests had been held. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

What had been troubling him, however, was the increase in bomb threats the police had been receiving from anarchist groups. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“They say someone put a bomb in the tank.” I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

People were coming to save them, but if Z had a gun and knew where another bomb was, the rescue workers weren’t going to make it in time. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

An infinitesimal fraction of a second prior to the bomb’s detonation, two particles collide with such fierce velocity that they form a micro singularity—a black hole too small to see with the naked eye. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“So they think the person behind the bombings has more bombs and is trapped in here with us?” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He saw her in her hotel room somewhere now in the halfsecond remaining with the bombs a yard, a foot, an inch from her building. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

If your own father came over with them you would not hesitate to fling a bomb at him. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead they sang, their lyrics timed perfectly to the rhythm of the bombs. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I thought that if black people were somehow able to get hold of bombs, tanks, guns, swords and machetes, then white people would be in for it. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was taught about demolition and mortar-firing and I learned how to make small bombs and mines — and how to avoid them. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still stuck in this hellhole, with God only knew how many more bombs ready to go off at any minute. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Once I finished digging the bomb shelter I would probably be buried in it. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Man, those singer guys just bombed so hard. I mean, they utterly and totally butchered ‘Hotel California,”’ Ashish said, walking in with two bottles of water. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Since being tapped by Arthur Compton in June to supervise the theoretical work on bomb design, Oppie had been working out of his Berkeley office with a small group of trusted colleagues. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Kirk, Wendell, and I had now experienced two bombings— two close calls in our lives. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

How long did they have before the bomb went off? Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

As a community, we placed our trust in their ability to somehow keep Klan bombs from killing our loved ones and destroying our homes and churches. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

When these killers are caught and locked up, I reasoned, I won’t have to worry about them, planting another bomb in my church. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

If Danny sounded a little snippy, you have to realize that his bar mitzvah was coming up, and he was more terrified of his bar mitzvah than an atomic bomb. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

So when a Jackboot pilot saw our seven wagons full of Gypsies, he immediately dropped his bombs on us, plus his goggles and everything in his pockets. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

We had had unsolved bombings for years in my city. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

On other missions, Oshiro was sent out with an observation ground team to track B-52 bombing strikes. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Only a few hours after the outbreak of hostilities between Japan and the United States, San Piedro Island late last night was prepared—temporarily at least—for an air raid bombing or other serious emergency. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He was the father of the atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon the pilots and navigators of the 588th were flying a dozen bombing missions or more in a single night, far more than the men in the other Po-2 regiments. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

When Oppenheimer realized he needed to design a new type of plutonium bomb, he’d called for extra help. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The letter mentioned the possibility of “extremely powerful bombs of a new type.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

His head was bursting with a thousand dissonant impulses as he prayed for the bombs to drop. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Compton placed the concerns of rank-and-file scientists about the social and political implications of the bomb on the committee record, via a memo from the Met Lab’s Franck. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you think they might wonder what’s happened if they wake up and find themselves in a place that looks like it’s just been bombed?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Another bomb was ready to go off, and the bomber was one of them. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Forty-three seconds after dropping from the plane, at an altitude of 1,900 feet above Hiroshima, the bomb’s two pieces of uranium slammed together, setting off an explosive chain reaction. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In those days, no one thought in terms of one bomb destroying a whole city.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every night on her way back from her bath Meme would find a desperate Fernanda killing butterflies with an insecticide bomb. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The damage is light, mostly confined to the U-boat pens and refineries, but two errant bombs land in St. Pauli, a neighborhood known for its theaters and cafés and concert halls. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Even rooms like the living room and kitchen, which nobody but she went into, began to look as though they had been bombed. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

But somehow they made it into the air, flew to the assigned target, dropped their bombs, flew home, and landed safely. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

In one he’d enclosed a picture of himself posing atop a bomb with a cigarette dangling from his lips. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The rocket bombs crashed oftener than ever, and sometimes in the far distance there were enormous explosions which no one could explain and about which there were wild rumors. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

What’s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when the anthrax bombs are popping all around you? Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

It mixed with the burning gasoline from the flamethrowers and napalm bombs, the sharp tang of gunpowder, the overheated metal of machine gun barrels, so hot that they were melting. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

We stare at the towering column of black smoke twisting upward from the city’s newest bomb site. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

His words were carefully chosen, but the implication was clear: America’s monopoly over the atomic bomb was over. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

No fighting or bombing or invading other places, just living out in the open, on the beach. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

As a reward he was put in charge of the atomic bomb project. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was their job to prepare the uranium for the bomb being designed at Los Alamos. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

After breakfast I washed out my handkerchief, packed it back into my nose, and went out to the bomb shelter. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

His on-the- scene reportage of Hiroshima after the atomic bomb was incredible. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

As Frankie shoved her to the floor, all Diana could think was that they were too late, as somewhere a third bomb was exploding. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

And within a week, recalled one of his students, he had filled his office blackboard in LeConte Hall with “a drawing—very bad, an execrable drawing—of a bomb.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Do you ever find yourself climbing into an open grave during a bombing raid,” I said, “and just wish you’d stayed in bed?” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Oppenheimer laid out his vision for getting the bomb built. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I'm with the bomb squad," the policeman explained. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were afraid to go into the restroom, assuming the Klan had prepared a second charge of dynamite and more deadly bombs would follow the first explosion after a crowd had formed. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

If they could survive the initial bombing of 13, they’re probably doing better than ever now. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The 46th Guards dropped bombs over the Blue Line for six months, right up to the point when the Red Army forced the Germans out of the Taman Peninsula in September 1943. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

How else could Dennis have tolerated my writing almost nothing in the weeks before the bombing? Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was it more efficient than using a lot of smaller bombs? A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

They also dig underground bomb shelters that can hold as many as one thousand people. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Dr. Trefusis is a gentleman of quality. I do not doubt his word. You will forgive my anxiety. This strife and bombs have made me run distracted.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“He and his brother worked on a top secret project to make the atom bomb during World War II.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

During those weeks and months after the bombing, I kept on helping Pastor Cross while we waited for workers to complete the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church renovations. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

At exactly 8:15 AM, its bomb doors opened. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Kawabe then asked if there was any defense against the bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They dropped the bombs just to see how far the Kurds would scatter. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“So you’re going to cut them off,” Johnson said, “keep them from being reinforced, and then you’re going to bomb them into the Stone Age.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

At Berkeley, Oppenheimer displayed the peculiar combination of personal charm and intellectual magnetism that would make him so effective a leader of the atomic bomb program at Los Alamos. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

When I get close enough, I drop the note like a bomb. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The Enola Gay dropped its payload, the uranium bomb christened Little Boy. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The bombs kill farming families, destroy their land, and drive them out of their homes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In those days of May, before the story from France was fully understood, before the bombing of the city in September, London had the outward signs, but not yet the mentality, of war. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Why can’t we create the roadblock somewhere else? Couldn’t we bomb the slope of a mountain or the road itself?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The Cockney children in London were restless when the bombing stopped and disturbed a pattern to which they had grown accustomed. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

My inner voice spoke loud and clear to me: Carolyn, it’s not if you will get blown up and killed by a bomb, but when. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Deep down, I thought that maybe Tanisha had bombed the audition on purpose. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Soon Russia also had the bomb and the Cold War started. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He had bombed our dorms in an attempt to keep me out of the games and from carrying out Hideo’s final goal. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Japanese planes bombed the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, in Hawaii.” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a horrifying sensation being pinned against the wall as the bombs rain down. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I’m to drop the bombs in the elevator at Columbia or “someplace very crowded” as soon as I get a good chance. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Past a bombed library snowing ash and burning papers. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Hall handed Sax two pages of handwritten notes—everything he’d learned about the plutonium bomb so far. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

And with the restroom “death chamber” sealed off and walled up, offering no visible reminder of the bombing, it was almost as if it never happened. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“The more civilians you bomb, the more resistance you grow.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

"You like playing with explosives, kid?" the bomb squad detective asked. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hiding in the smoke helps about as much as scrunching under a desk during an atomic bomb attack. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

One false move and he was a time bomb waiting to explode. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Einstein quickly realized that with atomic bombs, Adolf Hitler would be absolutely unstoppable. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

All along you know this, but still, in the middle of the show when he’s tied up and a bomb is about to explode, you hold your breath and dig your fingernails into your palms. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The truck backed up to the steel tower that was built to hold the bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Given the existential threat posed by a German bomb, few harbored any qualms about the Allies using theirs first. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

When rumors began spreading that the Germans were about to start a bombing campaign against Poland, Jack’s father feared Gdynia would be a target. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Panic spread from coast to coast: was it possible that the satellite was mapping the United States, with the intent of locking down targets for missile-delivered hydrogen bombs? Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The Americans agreed to halt the bombing of North Vietnam, and in exchange North Vietnamese negotiators agreed to sit down with representatives of the government of South Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Paris was declared an “open city”—spared from bombs and ruin, but fully accessible to Nazi troops. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

In their present form these bombs are now in production, and even more powerful forms are in development. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

With Britain still under attack from German bombers, they agreed the actual work of building a bomb would 4 6 be done in America. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There are men entrusted with winning the war who are in a much better position than we are to decide what targets have to be bombed.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The engineers from the hydro-anbaric station were struggling over the edge of the gorge to bring a power cable to the bomb. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

And if only she knew: the whole student body, led by James Madison, who can’t even tell the difference between a firecracker and a stink bomb but has somehow deduced that I’m broken. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Devil, I shoot you! Satan, I bomb you!” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The Allies may have used a very powerful bomb, he said, but not a real atomic bomb, not a bomb based on the fission of uranium atoms. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And it’s all your fault. Why did you have to go around twice ? Why couldn’t you drop your bombs the first time like all the others ?” “I would have missed the first time.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

June 11, 1963, three months before the church bombing, proved a typical sweltering summer day in Alabama. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

They feared that their church, like many others active in the civil rights movement, would be bombed. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So put down the wind bomb, and watch Khione get humiliated.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Inside the trailer it looked like a small bomb had exploded—broken lamps, overturned furniture, dents and holes in the fake-wood paneling. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

How could soldiers on the ground, bombs falling all around, call in the right coordinates for air strikes? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

When the invasion comes and the bombs start falling, it’ll be every man for himself, but this time we feared for those good, innocent Christians who are helping us. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“A trained bombardier is supposed to drop his bombs the first time,” Colonel Cathcart reminded him. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“I spent some time in preliminary calculations about the construction and performance of atomic bombs,” he said, “and became increasingly excited about the prospects.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Byron had just told me that someone had dropped a bomb on Joey’s church, hadn’t he? The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The people on the list were all top scientists the Soviets suspected might be in on the bomb work. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The conventional bombs of World War II were called blockbusters. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Compton estimated the American lead on the atomic bomb at no more than six years. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

On a bombing run with the Norden sight, Louie would visually locate the target, make calculations, and feed information on air speed, altitude, wind, and other factors into the device. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Tibbets learned the basics of how the atomic bomb would work and approximately how powerful the explosion might be. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cracked open my cherry bombs and poured the powder from them into the flashlight and then wrapped it all up in electrical tape. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Oppenheimer complained that Secretary of State Byrnes didn’t seem to understand the implications of the bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

What Air Marshal Saundby said, among other things, was this: That the bombing of Dresden was a great tragedy none can deny. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was nowhere near the Wexler apartment the day the third bomb went off. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I apologize for this bombing,” I remember hearing him telling us. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Stalin was screaming for the bomb, and Soviet scientists still needed more information from Los Alamos—they needed final reports on how the atomic bombs had been made. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They bombed all four squadrons, the officers’ club and the Group Headquarters building. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Not to the farm, but to the next best thing, sprinting over the bridge across the river, thinking halfway what a good target a bridge would be for a bomb. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Billy was reminded of fantastic architecture in Dresden, before it was bombed. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suicide bombings and targeted killings were regular occurrences. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

After ignoring the students for two hours, the manager closed Woolworth’s, citing a telephoned bomb threat. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I told him how we had been bombed by Jackboots and the whole story. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

A time bomb was ticking at the heart of their outwardly placid, inwardly unstable little family universe, and he was afraid. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the bombing stopped, we returned home to Uncle Shepsel shouting in the courtyard. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The runway had been bombed out, so what were they hoping for? Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Yet the bombing was a success, in an unexpected way. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are just like walking time bombs waiting to go off, and when they do, the consequences can be deadly. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

By lucidly describing the process that produced an H-bomb blast, Lapp showed that a clean bomb was a fantasy. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He’s delighted when the Germans come over with the bombs so that he can sleep while the pub is closed. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

In April, two bombs exploded, one at a real estate office, one at a private home. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He didn’t reveal his clandestine bombing of Cambodia. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

North Amsterdam was very heavily bombed on Sunday. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Yet bonds of friendship, colleagueship, and shared travail in the bomb project made it difficult for Lawrence to dismiss Oppenheimer’s disquiet entirely. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Americans continued shipping weapons to the Soviets, but the atomic bomb remained a secret. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I need the extra credit. I bombed that quiz.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Truman wanted to know that the United States had a working atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

A bomb fell on the road, way over in the center of the village, where the lorries were. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Oshiro didn’t know what was in the bags, but the CIA sent the intelligence gathered from all the remote camps to Washington, DC, for Nixon’s bombing campaign in Cambodia. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

At that moment, the bombings in Birmingham took on a new twist for me. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Sir, what use is Euclid and all the lines when the Germans are bombing everything that stands? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Alex smiles back, the anxious bubble in his chest shrinking slightly, but there’s one more bomb to drop. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Yes, urged foreign minister Shigenori Togo, because America’s atomic bomb “drastically alters the whole military situation.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That could put out the remaining fires and screw up any other bombs so they won’t go off.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The rest of the place looks devastated by a bombing raid. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

He bombed Isfahan every night trying to kill people and my uncles fought him. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

There was even less food now since the bombing by the Russians. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

No. This bombing turned out to be just one more “unsolved” explosion in Bombingham, Alabama. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Even now, I had not connected the Sixteenth Street Church bombing and my friends’ deaths with my depression. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

One by one, each aircrew dropped their bombs and then returned to their intermediate airfield to refuel. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

They gave me a fine supply of itching powder and a box of three stink bombs. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Our other plan was to bomb Japan’s cities and factories. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

They reached the target, everybody dropped their bombs, and the squadron soared around to fly home, still in tight formation after Zhenya. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

When the thunder and lightning began, people confused it with Japanese bombs and would not leave their houses. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

As 1940 ends, more British bombs have fallen over Hamburg, but the Nazis have overrun Poland, France, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

The senator’s aide who planned the bombing with Diana had told the authorities that it had been her idea to demonstrate how vital the Safety Through Education law was. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“In America we don’t really understand why Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was the morning of the bombing that I decided to write back to the forced laborer. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Army would have twenty plutonium bombs by the end of 1945. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We learned about them during the orientation for new citizens. They’re designed to penetrate deep in the ground before they go off. Because there’s no point in bombing Thirteen on the surface anymore.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

From that point on, everything would be run from the control room in Oppenheimer’s bomb shelter, six miles from the blast site. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever my parents talked about bombings or death or sex or politics, they routinely, without fail, asked us children to leave the room. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

There are a thousand metaphors and all of them are inadequate: forty bombs per aircraft, four hundred and eighty altogether, seventy- two thousand pounds of explosives. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The wounded from this morning’s bombing are being brought in. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Shortly after the news became known, Bishop Childs and his wife began to receive the first of a succession of bomb threats telephoned both to the church and to their home. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nixon and Kissinger wanted to resume the American bombing. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Frankie mentally ran through the path he’d taken to get here and the stops he’d made along the way and Tad, who had said his time was up just before the first bomb went off. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

They’re walking us right down the middle of it, because the sidewalk here is pockmarked from bombs. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He worked in a machine shop on the Hill, helping to build the super-precise explosive molds needed for the implosion bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a blast the phone would ring, and the caller would tell us the bomb’s location. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

So many times I had wished for a bomb to fall on me, to end my suffering, but now I prayed that no bomb would hit me. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“How do you expect our boys to be as precise as that thousands of feet up with bombs weighing tons! Look at what the Germans did to Amsterdam! Look at what they did to Coventry!” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both had come to the conclusion that a fission bomb was technically possible. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever excitement and girlish joy I felt before the bombing simply died for a long period after the bombing. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The president’s murder gave my teachers and parents and pastor the perfect opportunity to talk with us children about death and dying, about bombings and hatred. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

No longer deafened by the bombs, I finally notice something circling and buzzing over my head. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Downed trees lay across the path every fifty or sixty yards, often with great bomb craters of dirt around their splayed roots. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“What are you doing, checking for letter bombs?” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Mom and Dad and Sarah and Daniel and I have been speaking very quietly and walking very lightly; I’m sure bomb squads train this way. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she was still clearheaded enough to hiss down to Joe: “Did you say you had string and rubber bands and Lego? And smoke bombs? I really want those smoke bombs! I’ve got a plan!” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

If the Germans were about to finish an atomic bomb, would Heisenberg really believe the war was lost? Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

One plane seemed to be right above us, seeding the ground around us with bullets and bombs, and as it trailed off into the distance, it set nearby patches of the darkness afire. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Most frightening of all, between March 1918 and the end of the year, eleven bombs were exploded at the offices of black real estate agents and in the homes of black families. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Throughout September the Germans bomb cities and villages, leveling homes and buildings. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

He detailed the production of various bombs, as well as the solicitation of money abroad. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ten days after the church bombing, on September 25 at 2:31 a.m., another bomb exploded in a nearby black neighborhood. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

All the bombs explode within approximately ninety minutes of one another, rocking some of the biggest urban areas in America, including New York, Boston, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Washington, DC, and Philadelphia. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The heat released in this reaction, which is like a controlled hydrogen bomb explosion, is what makes the star shine. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Either Johanna or Chaff or Brutus was still alive when the bombs began. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

We discussed our plans over break, and then I dropped the prom bomb. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Jack himself always said that when you make a bomb you are also constructing a statement, employing a more complicated grammar than is required. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes only dart up for a second, but it’s as if he’s triggered a bomb. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

That’s a brilliant thing to put my idle mind to work on: making a bomb. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The wind-whipped raindrops stung our skin, and every thunderclap sounded like a bomb. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Suddenly he goes into the last phase--the human virus bomb explodes. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ground ripples under me as bomb after bomb drops from the planes and detonates. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, if the bomb succeeded, the demand for fundamental research on atomic energy would only increase, though it would be likely focused on more and better weapons. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“I just don’t think dropping the atom bomb qualifies. It was war, after all,” Jonah says, pushing his long hair away from his eyes. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

They said he had boasted about the bombing. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

That was a common feeling among the bomb makers. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hitler was wounded by a time bomb in a briefcase placed under a conference table; he might have been killed if the case had been placed slightly closer to the chair where he was sitting. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

"I need you to come back in and make a bomb." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t just the bombs Serafima and her navigator had dropped—now the German antiaircraft guns began firing up at the small Po-2. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

That way, neither country would use the bomb— knowing they’d have the bomb used on them. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Remember last year, when there were those bomb threats at Central?” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It sounded like little bombs were exploding in Papa’s lungs. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

Since sending in the Marines three years earlier, Johnson had been unable to bomb, fight, or negotiate his way to victory in Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“The bombs didn’t destroy this area before,” Rashid explained, trying to calm the panic growing inside him. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Each of these missiles carried a warhead equal in destructive power to forty Little Boys—or forty times the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

But after two rounds of bombings in the higher elevations of the mountain, the planes have their attention. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“We could wait for them to leave,” said Horace, and then a bomb fell so close by that my eyes blurred and my teeth rattled. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Billy looked up at all the young people in bright elastic clothing and enormous boots and goggles, bombed out of their skulls with snow, swinging through the sky in yellow chairs. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess he and the other Klan members planted the church bomb to explode on that Sunday as a threat to stop us from integrating the public all-white schools in Birmingham.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

They worked twenty-hour days, setting up instruments to measure the blast, and building a 100-foot steel tower to hold the bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rather chimerical notion of a nuclear bomb without radioactive side effects had emerged in late 1954 and had been embraced by Livermore, where it fit nicely with the lab’s brief to explore new ideas. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

MK’s first car bomb attack took place in May of 1983, and was aimed at an air force and military intelligence office in the heart of Pretoria. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the war began, British scientists recruited him to help with a secret war-related project—the atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The government was always testing nuclear bombs in the desert near the ranch, Mom said. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Seaborg tells me that within six months from the time plutonium is formed, he can have it available for use in the bomb.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

American planes took off from nearby aircraft carriers and made sixty-four sorties over North Vietnam, bombing their torpedo boat fleet and a major oil depot. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I feel like a scientist making a discovery, except it’s not a vaccine or a bomb. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

“The noise of fourteen thousand aeroplanes advancing in open order. But in the Kurfurstendamm and the Eighth Arrondissement, the explosion of the anthrax bombs is hardly louder than the popping of a paper bag.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was an exact copy of the American bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You bombed our church!” they screamed to no one in particular. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Now we’re off to bombing these people,” Johnson groaned to his secretary of defense. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The effect was to convince the ruling groups of all countries that a few more atomic bombs would mean the end of organized society, and hence of their own power. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The great ribbed belly of the zeppelin bulked over the bomb, straining at its cables in the wind, its silver sides running with moisture. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The reply was that without another word the German troops crossed the Polish frontier this morning at dawn and are since reported to be bombing open towns. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

If North Vietnam agreed to a cease-fire and returned the American prisoners of war, Nixon said, he would end the bombing and withdraw the remaining American troops. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The fizzy bath bombs and hair clips are from Tía. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Their publication of new discoveries had been halted during the war, but they had not stopped thinking—or absorbing the knowledge gained from work on the physics of the bomb. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Another bomb was ready to go off, and the bomber was one of them. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Known as Fat Man, this was a large, round plutonium implosion bomb similar to the one tested at Trinity. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the bombs had left plenty of fresh graves in the cemetery. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I don’t really believe we bombed Central Europe, do you?” said Finny thoughtfully. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other than the addition of an elevator, no renovations had been done since the ones immediately following the bombing. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It flew over our refugee camp and dropped its load of bombs—boom! boom! boom! Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

German bombs pounded British cities night after night. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each aircrew risked two or three of these bombing flights in a day. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Ever since the U.S. bombings of Jalalabad, the flood of refugees had increased tenfold, causing more confusion and chaos along the border. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Everyone fled the building while we discussed the likelihood of an actual bombing. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

After the German surrender, he brought one more argument to the table: using the bomb on Japan would fatally compromise America’s moral and humanitarian standing, undermining any efforts to create a workable international control regime. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Finally, I told them how our conversation had ended—with a bomb detonating at my home address. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He leveled McWatt out with another harsh cry and whipped him upward and around again into a ragged blue patch of unpolluted air just as the bombs he had dropped began to strike. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Or, perhaps, the electrical burst would set off the bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Imani decided on a Marmalade jelly bomb—orange and yellow and smelling better than any jelly I know of. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Pluto Noak leaned over the side of the slide and dropped a spit bomb. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Every bomb that hit filled us with joy, gave us renewed confidence. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The barrack rumbled again as another bomb fell close to the camp. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

They will drop germ bombs to wither the sugarcane fields, blacken the rivers, blind horses and pigs. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unless Tibbets heard otherwise, his orders were to drop the bomb as soon as weather conditions permitted. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then a trio of bombs shook the building, raining chips of concrete on our heads, and suddenly Horace was pushing past me, grasping for the ladder. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Lyndon Johnson had halted the bombing of North Vietnam, and Nixon was reluctant to resume it. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Sixty, fifty-nine, fifty-eight... only one minute to open the drawer and defuse the bomb. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, I saw a renewed awareness of the racial unrest of the sixties as well as an interest in the Sixteenth Street Church bombing when I returned. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was fifteen years after the bombing of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church and fourteen years after the Civil Rights Act, but this Birmingham company still had an almost totally white workforce. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The fire went back into the bombs, which rose up and into the bellies of planes whose propellers turned backward, like the second hands of the clocks across Dresden, only faster. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

First, Japan had bombed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in early December 1941, a little more than four years ago. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Hey. Wait up. I’m sorry. Okay? I didn’t really think that you were planting a bomb.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

A bomb blew up in my knuckle that I could feel in my elbow, and then in my neck. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

He pressed his case in a letter to Conant, reminding him that Y-12 stood alone as validation of the feasibility of the bomb program. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The next day, right after lunch recess, the atomic bomb sirens wailed again in Camillo Junior High. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I handed him the tights while Walter Cronkite was announcing new bombing in Vietnam. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

A bomb suddenly explodes in the video, and Mr. Blankenship wakes up for about half a second. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Some families hurried to remodel their cellars into bomb shelters. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Discussions about the control of nuclear arms and use of the bomb on Japan had been going on since 1943. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

All three powers merely continue to produce atomic bombs and store them up against the decisive opportunity which they all believe will come sooner or later. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

That night, several of the flimsy open-cockpit Po-2s took off from Engels on a practice bombing mission—dropping concrete “bombs” on a parade ground at another airfield. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

But the question remained: How close was Hitler to getting an atomic bomb? Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The car, white with red interior, was a bomb. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Please, my father is missing since the bombing.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I pictured bombs as black iron balls about the size of a sauerkraut kettle. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Our old quarters have been destroyed by the bombings. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Now that the bomb could not be used against the Nazis, doubts arose. Those doubts, even if they do riot appear in 16 6 official reports, were discussed in many private discussions.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My uncle is a pilot. He flies big planes that drop bombs. Can you turn it on?” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The realizations continued to detonate in my brain like atomic bombs going off, one after another. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“I told little Billy here that they were using the big bombing planes an awful lot. His uncle is a bomber pilot. He’s probably flying his plane right now.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Gandhi could have personally bombed the zoo, it would have been fine with me if Father had been gay about it. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Their task was to choose the most effective method for producing the fissionable fuel for an atomic bomb from among five options, none of which was appreciably better than the others. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Thereafter, although no formal agreement was ever made or hinted at, no more bombs were dropped. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He persuaded people to donate their jewelry and money, and he used the funds to make bombs and train militants. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The Coventry launched her Sea Darts, but missed, allowing the Skyhawks to drop four of their one-thousand-pound bombs at point-blank range. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The results helped convince Oppenheimer that a plutonium implosion bomb might work. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

In desperation, they resorted to tactics such as strapping small bombs to dogs’ backs and sending them to blow up German tanks. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

For example, someone in a position of authority decided the Pe-2s of the 125th Guards would be able to carry a heavier load of bombs if the planes carried less fuel. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

As a bomber, of course, it also contained bombing gear and bombsights, and all of this needed maintenance and loading. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Jack and Moniek were taken by truck with other prisoners to various places to help clear the rubble left from Allied bombing raids over Germany. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

“What bombs?” answered Yossarian, whose only concern had been the flak. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

A few days after Teacher Sarah was murdered, we all woke up to what sounded like a bomb exploding in the yard. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something like a feathered bomb blew up and away in a flurry of leaves and thunder. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“After all, there’s a war on. It’s not much of a sacrifice, when you think of people starving and being bombed and all the other things.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The house shook and the bombs kept falling. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The bombing, the fiery plane crashes, the faces of the wounded who no longer exist. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The bombings and killings didn’t stop after the calendar page turned. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Despite enormous effort, I remain a hideous creature, fired into my current form by the blast from the bombs. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Full of crying children and dirt shaking down from the bombs above us. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“That was nothing like the bombs in Eight,” I say. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He was on a bombing run over North Vietnam when his plane was ripped open by antiaircraft fire. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Then he rummaged through the cabinets and took out enough chemicals to create a small nuclear bomb. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

But they didn't know that he was to commit sabotage with bombs. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

A giant bomb had fallen, and even that could not hurt this special place. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The Alsos mission’s job was to follow close behind advancing Allied forces in Europe, searching for any scraps of information about the German atomic bomb program. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not like he made the bombs that blew up this place.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

We may be grateful to Providence that the Germans got the V-l’s and V-2’s late and in limited quantities and even more grateful that they did not get the atomic bomb at all. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

If not, people would have the birds of sadness nesting in their hair all the time, because of nuclear war and the greenhouse effect and bombs and stabbings and lunatics. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

The hardness of the camp, the coldness of the dark night, the death of Dapir, all slam through me like a barrel bomb, ripping my heart to pieces. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Homes had been bombed, jobs lost, and people lynched for less. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

He had looked uncomfortable when Rashid had talked to him in the hospital after the bombing and when Rashid had asked for his phone number. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Luke stared at her, afraid that she was about to drop another bomb on him. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“When I say ‘bombs away,’ let it go.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“You have made your choice. Live in a world of war and bloodshed. When the bomb drops, do not come to me. I shall be in my shelter!” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

To Alvarez, who was chafing in his peacetime harness after spending four postwar years doing basic research, the Soviet bomb represented not merely a crisis but also an opportunity. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

His voice, made metallic by the amplifiers, boomed forth an endless catalogue of atrocities, massacres, deportations, lootings, rapings, torture of prison-ers, bombing of civilians, lying propaganda, unjust aggressions, broken treaties. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He assured Thieu that the United States was not abandoning South Vietnam, that Nixon would continue the bombing as long as necessary. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

As government soldiers shelled and burned the countryside and airplanes strafed and bombed the villages, refugees moved south. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, in addition to worrying about the Ku Klux Klan coming to get us in the night, I started to worry every moment about being bombed. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Both were tormented by the same question: What had German scientists told Hitler about the possibility of building atomic bombs? Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And I told you, they must think there are more bombs,” Diana said. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

To keep the Cambodia operation secret, the military prepared phony reports for Congress, stating that the bombs were actually falling on Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He passed her envelopes containing reports on everything British scientists knew about atomic bomb physics, and she radioed the material to Moscow. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we sense lipopolysaccharide, we are likely to turn on every defense at our disposal; we will bomb, defoliate, blockade, seal off, and destroy all the tissues in the area. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moscow responded quickly, telling Zarubin the information “is of great interest to us,” and attaching a long list of technical questions about fission and bomb making. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Where they disagreed was that Lawrence believed that goal had been reached by the bombing of Japan; Oppenheimer, by contrast, feared that the bombs of August had made it more remote than ever. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Working in a small wooden cabin, he assembled test bomb cores that were about the size of a basketball. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The first bomb went off in your folks' coffee shop, right? Your mother and father work you pretty hard, don't they?" The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a debate about what the government should do with the leftover bomb material. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

While we were there, America destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki with atomic bombs, and the war with Japan came to an end. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

If the batteries failed, or when it was too dangerous to let a light show, they’d have to feel their way in the dark to fix the heavy bombs in place beneath the Po-2s’ wings. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He had landed another contract with the Germans, this time to bomb his own outfit. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Mike Bogo, dejected, later commented, “I don’t care who wins. I just like to bust them bombs.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our hearts. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only time I let my feelings out is when I lie in bed at night and listen to the distant krump of explosions and barrel bombs, to the alarms and sirens after an airstrike. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“We were determined to find, if we could, some effective way of demonstrating the power of an atomic bomb without loss of life that would impress Japans warlords. If only this could be done!” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

But the whole kitchen crew was too excited and upset to notice: Japanese planes had just bombed a place called Pearl Harbor. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

We are not really entitled to complain, because we are lucky children: English children got their houses bombed and we did not. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

In sturdy contrast with the pitiful fate of the Kreuzkirche, stood the Frauenkirche, from the curves of whose stone dome the Prussian bombs rebounded like rain. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the atomic bombing, if anything, just sharpened our worry. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

They bombed his house and threatened his life by mail and telephone. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

I explained to Billy as best I could some of the things that were going on, and he kept telling me his uncle was the pilot of a big plane that dropped bombs. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Hiskey explained that he and other scientists were “working with desperate haste” to build an atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were written during the thirties, but much of it would still be up to date - after all, I do not imagine German bombs have altered our countryside so significantly. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Japanese pilots were no longer just dropping bombs and strafing. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

His big brother Matt had died in a roadside bomb blast in Afghanistan the year before. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

When the 586th arrived in their Yaks, the enemy planes dropped their bombs in a snow-covered field instead of on their populated industrial target, and beat a hasty retreat. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

We are not really entitled to complain, because we are lucky children: English children got their houses bombed and we did not. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

A barrage of bombs went off on the bridge to signal their victory. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Bad grades, absence from classes, and an incident with a smoke bomb were just some of the reasons he rattled off as my mother sat silently on the couch with the phone to her ear. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Would the United States be more likely to use atomic bombs, knowing no one else could strike back? Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

One very good one of a ship full of refugees being bombed somewhere in the Mediterranean. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

An agent wrote of the bombing of the Smiths’ house, “The two women perished instantly, their bodies being blown asunder, and pieces of their flesh being later found plastered on a house 300 feet away.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t bear hearing or reading about the bombing details and Denise’s horrible death once again. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Through Hall and Fuchs, Kurchatov learned that a gun assembly bomb with plutonium would not work. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had heard bombs go off in my neighborhood, but it seemed unfathomable that it could happen in this safe haven. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then a second, more powerful bomb kills them as well. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“The American ships bombed Incheon so they could land their troops.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“But watch for planes in threes. When they spread apart, you know they’re going to drop bombs. Sometimes airplanes covered the sky, and we could not see and we could not hear.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could bomb, put US forces in Vietnam, and initiate large-scale combat operations, all without consulting Congress. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

These were warheads loaded with eight to fourteen nuclear payloads, each one up to twenty-five times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I could’ve lied and told him the cafeteria burritos gave me stomach cramps, even though I’m smart enough never to eat those cheesy laxative bombs. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

At the shrill whine of the bomb everyone cowered on the ground. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

But the commanders were eager for a big victory, and the 46th Guards were sent out on a bombing mission twice as far away as their usual targets took them. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“No, the bomb hasn’t gone off,” she said. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Chicago meeting was the watershed moment in the atomic bomb project. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

And in that instant saw the city, instead of the bombs, in the air. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

The COs soon learned of the squadron’s prowess; angry farmers came calling after the 372nd’s hundred-pound bombs flattened an outhouse and one unfortunate cow. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Edna came in crying, her eyes swollen red, to tell her that white people had bombed the black Baptist church in her hometown. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Suddenly there were no growling engines, no whistling bombs, no pops of distant guns. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

They were blitzed and pock-marked, as if the liver had been carpet bombed. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the Men Pieces is about war but told by a boy your age who can’t seem to find peace after a bomb blows his village and his brother to pieces. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

What if I get sent to places with wars and bombs? The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

In 1944, when Planck was eighty-five, an Allied bomb fell on his house and he lost everything–papers, diaries, a lifetime of accumulations. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Only set a bomb outside the prime minister’s house in London,” replied Hugh. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bombers opened their bomb bay doors, exerted a miraculous magnetism which shrunk the fires, gathered them into cylindrical steel containers, and lifted the containers into the bellies of the planes. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He showed up just a minute later, carefully floating down the hall with the bomb held in both hands. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were more ruins now, after the Russians’ bombing. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Then, when dark fell and the temperature dropped below freezing, everybody got ready to fly bombing missions. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Before the bomb dropped and killed his parents....Did you see his ear?” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He tries to pick up his speech by moving on to the bombing of a water purification plant, when a clip of Finnick talking about Rue replaces him. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Robert Oppenheimer was a brilliant physicist. He ran the Manhattan Project, which developed the atomic bomb. Oppenheimer tested the atomic bomb in the middle of a desert in New Mexico.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Nixon’s Christmas bombings were still awaiting their holiday season. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The bombing seems to have destroyed the hearing in his left ear. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“President Snow says he’s sending us a message? Well, I have one for him. You can torture us and bomb us and burn our districts to the ground, but do you see that?” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

In the winter’s long darknesses, during what they called their “maximum nights,” they might make twelve to eighteen bombing runs in a single evening. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

As scientists, we deplore the use to which a beautiful discovery has been put, but we can assure you that unless Japan surrenders at once, this rain of atomic bombs will increase manyfold in fury. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

After the church bombing in September 1963, Kirk stopped speaking, except when he felt it absolutely necessary. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Knowledge of the atomic bomb was available on a strictly need-to-know basis. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

A pot or pan, presumably knocked off its hook in the bombing, wobbles on the kitchen tiles. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

But in any case, Kissinger told the press, the bombing was North Vietnam’s fault. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The carnival’s breaking apart into a riot hung like a bomb between us. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

There weren’t any machines that could do this work, so three women at a time worked together to lift the bombs. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He concocted a tragically misguided plan: He would construct a small bomb and place it on her front porch. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Repeated bomb threats were telephoned to our homes. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, receiving those messages made me pray hard that such bombs would never fall on human beings again. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

If a bomb were built in time to affect the outcome of the war, it would need to be dropped by plane. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the Skiz fight and my dust bomb, the three of us ended up camping out on the balcony of an old library. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The race to build the atomic bomb was on. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was not my fault about the bombing.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Truman agreed—but aside from dropping another bomb, what options were there? Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time, Bush had received an unequivocal endorsement of the idea that an atomic bomb could be developed in time to influence the course of a war he knew was coming. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He wanted Oppenheimer to help get government support for the new bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Big Joe had loved her mama for a long time and he did own a Bar-B-Que joint that was the serious bomb. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

From that material, the Los Alamos bomb makers would create the device known as Fat Man, the plutonium bomb dropped over Nagasaki three days after the Hiroshima bombing. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The only thing I knew for sure was that the bomb wasn’t dropped on the church by an airplane. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

In school, we were taught that dust bombs or tear gas is more than enough to do the job. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“Look what happened after this bombing. We’ll always be the scapegoats. Even though it was one of their people who did this. See what happened to us and to you. We don’t belong here.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

In retaliation, MacArthur ordered massive bombing strikes against "every installation, factory, city, and village" in North Korea. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

But it was too late—over the long years since the bombing, the painful images have continued to recall themselves to me. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I always intend to and then she says these little sneaky things, smoke bombs and little barbs, and . . .” “Why don’t you tell her to stop torturing you,” said Marlene. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today they seemed awkward and complicated, like I was defusing a bomb. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

The rocket bombs which fell daily on London were probably fired by the Government of Oceania itself, “just to keep people frightened.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Scribbling graphs and formulas on the blackboard as he spoke, Serber began to explain the physics of an atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I wanted to share my information about bomb shelters, most of the students stared at me as if I were from another planet. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Everyone was awake now, every prisoner, and we watched the roof and waited without a word, waited to see if one of the bombs would fall on us and kill us all. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

She told me all the local and world news, and it was rather pleasant to hear about the National League, an atom bomb test, and a Mr. Riley’s three-legged dog that chased her chickens. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seaborg’s next step was to test the new element’s fission cross section— in other words, to determine whether it could sustain a chain reaction and make a bomb. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“What if he was just trying to get away so he could detonate the last bomb?” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

They were Allied planes, dropping bombs somewhere in the distance! Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Around Los Alamos after that,” explained Serber, “we called the bomb we were building ‘the gadget.’ Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even a uranium bomb–the most energetic thing we have produced yet–releases less than 1 percent of the energy it could release if only we were more cunning. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

We expected the sounds of exploding bombs to follow, but strangely, they didn't. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

A shrapnel bomb, they called it—several sticks of dynamite in a rusty five-gallon paint can crammed full of nails, bolts, and sharp pieces of metal. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But he had already told them the day before what he had seen in that first column—twenty men in the back of a three-ton lorry killed with a single bomb. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Tents and trees were in flames, and Milo’s planes kept coming around interminably with their blinking white landing lights on and their bomb bay doors open. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

She was fumbling in her robe, for her pass, and they thought she was hunting for a bomb. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

A bit less than an hour later—to allow themselves some extra time for dodging bombs—the two girls were outside again, in the moonscape that was now RAF Maidsend. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The thought of death and bombs frightened me. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“More and better bombs . . . We keep saying, ‘We have no other course’; what we should say is ‘We are not bright enough to see any other course.’ Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Then, just before the bomb explodes, he cuts himself loose and dives for cover, and you breathe out and nearly cry with relief. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps the most important thing was the full design of the atom bomb.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the bomb explodes, it sends accusations of injustice and barbarism and cruelty flying out in every direction. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Haukelid pulled the bomb out from under his long coat—nineteen pounds of plastic explosive molded into a long sausage shape. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

There have been repeated attempts to bomb it to bits and it’s not really a secret. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“Baachan...may I ask? What was the war like here? Did you ever get bombed here in the country, even once?” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Paul and Rex were horrified at what they saw where our two atomic bombs had fallen. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he grew a little older he discovered machine guns and tanks and bazookas and, of course, bombs. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

White realized that the unusual method of the final killing—a bombing—had a vicious logic. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

A man phoned his local police station in the Bronx, a New York City borough, certain the invaders were bombing New Jersey because he saw the smoke from his roof. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Still, the Soviets were absolutely determined to steal the bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day I was in the kitchen cleaning dishes—despite my best efforts to avoid them—and a bomb went off so close that the whole house rattled and the fan over the window fell. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Agent Magnus knows he dropped a truth bomb right smack on my forehead. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Groves originally had considered appointing Lawrence to head the bomb lab but decided to leave him in place overseeing the crucial electromagnetic separation work. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

She gave it to me only a few weeks before the bombings, I thanked her, she said, “Why are you thanking me? It’s a gift for me.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

As North Vietnamese attacks in South Vietnam intensified, Johnson decided to run a continuous bombing campaign over North Vietnam aimed at destroying railroads, bridges, roads, and manufacturing plants. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Now came the screech of the falling bomb. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“They could make me dig two bomb shelters,” I said. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

His war planes would swoop into the highlands and spot a tribe of Kurds with their sheep and they must have thought it was funny to drop bombs on them. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

If the evacuation failed and the ports were bombed, more than half a million people would die. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The next day the Oak Ridge directors gathered to hear his findings, but right before the meeting an army colonel warned Feynman not to discuss any secret information about how the atomic bomb might work. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s my first truly spontaneous smile since the bombing. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The precise timing of the Hiroshima mission was known only to a few physicists on the bomb team. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“This is a real attack, real planes, real bombs!” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

A bomb exploded several blocks away on our side of the wall. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Rumfoord talked to Lily about the bombing of Dresden one time, and Billy heard it all. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d been trying to create a chain reaction in uranium—the first step on the road to an atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

After dropping her bombs she’d power the engine up again and climb away. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

For the bombing plan to work, we needed an emergency landing field closer to Japan on their way back. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Too many bombs and grenades had been dropped. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“He’d already lost his family twice before. Once in Poland and then again here—his adopted family. So when you and Aunt Susie came along ...” “Once bombed, twice shy?” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Without getting into specifics, Furman explained that the United States and Germany were racing to make a new kind of bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think he’d bomb a white girl,” he said finally. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I didn't know a single soul in my community who had a bomb shelter. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

James Fisk, who supervised the American side of the talks with a diplomatic skill unexpected of a scientific appointee, brought home an agreement designating the detection of nuclear bomb tests as “technically feasible.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

"Those weren't gas explosions, those were bombs. Right?" The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two days later, Alvarez was preparing for the second run that would drop the plutonium bomb, “Fat Man,” on Nagasaki. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

They were refugees from the bombs, and this was their shelter. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

For the first time I got out the bug bomb and sprayed heavily, and Charley broke into a sneezing attack so violent and prolonged that I had finally to carry him out in my arms. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why were you forced to flee your island after your house was bombed? And why did you run into the woods instead of following the coast?” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I can’t think why the sky’s being bombed until I realize the Gamemakers are shooting off fireworks up there, while the real destruction occurs on the ground. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Bush learned that he had a new teammate from the army only when Groves, who had been promoted to brigadier general upon taking over the bomb project, showed up at his office on September 17. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Zlata’s cage was the basement she had to use for shelter, away from bombs. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was like a bomb went off inside me. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

But that increased the bomb’s overall power, which created an absolute increase in dirtiness. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

But the ferment among the bomb scientists continued—centered, as always, at the Met Lab in Chicago. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“We were eight minutes away from the scheduled time of the bomb release when the city came into view,” recalled Paul Tibbets. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the bombing it was simply sealed up. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“A bombing raid. The Japanese air force has bombed everything. It is bad for us, terribly bad. There is nothing else on the radio. Everything is Pearl Harbor.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

They were quickly convinced that an atomic bomb had exploded somewhere in the Soviet Union, probably on the morning of August 29. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m a little worried that an atomic bomb might drop on it,” I said. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The bomb worked—now Truman had to decide what to do with it. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

His version left the scientific community dumbfounded, for by general agreement, there was no way to create “an absolutely clean bomb.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

A man who travels a lot was concerned about the possibility of a bomb on board his plane. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“After bombing and having escaped the enemy’s fire, I couldn’t pull myself together for ten or fifteen minutes,” said Nina Raspopova, another 46th Guards pilot. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Diana was the last student anyone would have reported to the administration, and yet she was the time bomb that had been waiting to go off. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The more I learned about Korea, the more I was afraid we could be bombed right at our own house in Little Rock, Arkansas. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I can just see Dona Hita finding you, opening your covers, thinking she’ll discover a whole list of clients, and instead—Lord forbid!—snapping her eyes on the Nipples bomb. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two bombs exploded in January 1919, both on the doorsteps of real estate offices, one black, one white. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The rain had stopped during the forenoon and three times we had heard planes coming, seen them pass overhead, watched them go far to the left and heard them bombing on the main highroad. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, no, no, no. I’d rather use the nuclear bomb. Have you got that, Henry?” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

We reach the unexploded bomb half-buried in the ground at the start of Aleppo Way, its nose buried deep in the dirt, wing blades pointing at the sky. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Their work had been driven by the absolute necessity of winning the bomb race with Germany. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

How do you know you bombed it? asks Ethan, but he puts a bomb emoji in place of the word. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

As I passed the bomb shelter it made me think of what Mom had just said. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The loop hadn’t yet reset, and the bog was pocked with bomb holes, the sky buzzing with planes, walls of orange flame marching against the distant tree line. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Q: Do you have any more information on the white truck that was at the scene before the bombing? Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Somewhere in remote distance a rocket bomb thundered. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

When the sun was halfway across the sky, the bombs and the artillery shells went quiet, and I heard the machine guns come, faint, then closer, jeeps driving fast past our building. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Like they did with the Manhattan Project. When they were creating the atomic bomb.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

One day, Oshiro watched American planes as they dropped napalm bombs only a mile away from his team. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

She decided that the 46th Guards should change the way they flew their bombing missions. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

For the physicists of the atomic bomb program, Germany’s surrender on May 7, 1945, complicated the moral and ethical issues connected with the device they had invented. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He dropped a bomb that shook the ground. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bomb would work whether or not she was part of it. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Dad is making a landing strip for his new plane and he wants me to help him build a bomb shelter.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It carried America’s secret weapon, a single atomic bomb. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

At two-thirty, the head meteorologist, Jack Hubbard, came to the bomb shelter for a quick conference. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, Kraków was spared the destructive bombardments that targeted Warsaw and other cities; even without the threat of bombs, there was terror on the streets. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

He wanted the president to expand ground operations into nearby Laos and Cambodia, and massively increase bombing of North Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, they evacuated the whole building, called the bomb squad, the police, the lot. The bomb squad arrives and opens the box when it starts ringing.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Since when are we afraid of a few bombs?” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Gentlemen,” the president began, “we have reached the point where a decision is required: to bomb or not to bomb.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He showed them where they should plant the bombs to blow up railroads, such as tunnels, bridges, switches, and brakes. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The next big question: Was it necessary to test the atomic bomb to make sure it actually worked? Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Imagine them fighting, burning, looting, and bombing every city and farm in their path until they reached the Great Plains. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

It was a smile that gave no indication that the person who belonged to it was a bomb waiting to go off. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Klan responded with random bombings for almost two decades. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In April 1944, amid persistent doubts that Oak Ridge could supply a bomb core, Groves learned of the work and dispatched a reconnaissance team to Philadelphia. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, the makeup is bomb, but the dress...” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Catch up tonight, okay? Chapter twenty-seven in your American history book talks about how churches were bombed, houses were burned, people were lynched. History MADE.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

On the tarmac, a lorry was repairing the bomb craters, filling them in with gravel. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Instead, she was shaken awake in the middle of the night by her hostess, who urged her, “You must get up, your airfield is being bombed, your aircraft are burning!” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

"It’s like a trillion hydrogen bombs going off at once," says Evans. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Cullen had decided to quit his job to join the Coast Guard after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

There Oppenheimer delivered an impressively detailed explication of atomic bomb physics, along with his own rough estimate that 100 kilograms of U-235—that is, 220 pounds—would be enough for a practical device. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Thirteen minutes after the first bomb exploded, another bomb went off at the same spot. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The goal was to isolate the Germans, to keep them from even mentioning the words atomic bomb in public. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a museum used for propaganda displays of various kinds—scale models of rocket bombs and Floating Fortresses, waxwork tableaux illustrating enemy atrocities, and the like. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

"Yeah, close enough. It was really Tess I wanted to keep safe with my dust bomb, you know." Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

What is more remarkable is that all three powers already possess, in the atomic bomb, a weapon far more powerful than any that their present researches are likely to discover. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

But if the building was too unstable to stand from all the bombs and the fire, how long until something else collapsed? Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Strauss simmered through most of the presentation but erupted when Rabi took a potshot at the illusory concept of a “clean” bomb. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

David Shoun said he thought that Bill, fearing he might die, was about to make a declaration—to reveal what he knew about the bombing and the killers. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“She bombed the Germans while pregnant. What a hero!” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I myself was against taking it, but mostly because the roads were so pocked with bomb holes that I didn’t know how we’d drive the thing. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

When Groves met with Uranium Committee members in Chicago, they told him it would take somewhere between ten and one thousand pounds of uranium to make an atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everybody helped refuel the planes by carrying cans from the trucks to the aircraft; the armorers had to carry the bombs out to the Po-2s by hand as well. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Now we have our bomb,” Oppenheimer told Leslie Groves in late February. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rage mingled with the general melancholy that had been growing in her steadily since the bombing of Pearl Harbor; it was one of the rare times in Fujiko’s adult life when she felt inconsolable. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

On the night of March 9th, 1945, an air attack on Tokyo by American heavy bombers, using incendiary and high explosive bombs, caused the death of 83,193 people. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He broke off the bombing attacks and turned his attention to the Soviets. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

His headset had been on since just after the morning oatmeal, his world of school rumors replaced by bombs in his ear. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

The men climbed into the car and continued their search for the perfect place to build an atomic bomb lab. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I later found out that after the bomb exploded, Kirk took off running outside. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Did you know they put dead animals into bombs? 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

‘They is shootling guns and going up in aerioplanes to drop their bombs on each other’s heads every week. Human beans is always killing other human beans.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mantell’s twisted spine remained on display at the Hunterian Museum for nearly a century before being mercifully obliterated by a German bomb in the Blitz. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Kurchatov also learned that it might be possible to build bombs using the principle of implosion. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay, this next one is called a cherry bomb,” she told them, holding up something that actually looked just like a cherry. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The sirens droned on, a soprano counterpoint to the bombs’ relentless bass, their pitch so eerily human it sounded like every soul in London had taken to their rooftops to cry out collective despair. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Survivors of Hiroshima began to develop leukemia only three years after the atomic bombing, and there is now reason to believe the latent period may be considerably shorter. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

His most promising scheme had involved getting a book 011 munitions from the library, constructing a bomb, and mailing it in plain paper to Myrna. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And atomic bombs made future wars look even more hopeless. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He’d been badly hurt in a bomb attack, and couldn’t go back into battle. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

The war had come to Dachau, and any moment a shell or a bomb might fall on our building and kill us all. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

If the Soviets were going to get an atomic bomb any time in the near future, they were going to have to steal it. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

A member of the Berkeley French faculty and a close friend of Oppenheimer’s, Chevalier had approached Oppie about passing information from the bomb program to the Soviets. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The papers, he said, “included a statement on the special difficulties that would have to be overcome in making a plutonium bomb.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the technicians got to their new base, the bomb bay doors opened and they tumbled to the ground—some of them were so stunned by the experience that they couldn’t even get up. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

They dropped a second wingload of bombs over their target without any trouble. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Only after the bomb was dropped did Lawrence reveal to Fosdick what the latter recalled as “the vital part played by the Rockefeller Foundation in the development of the atomic bomb.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Before that bomb was dropped—right over here in the United States, what about the one hundred thousand loyal naturalized and native-born Japanese-American citizens who were herded into camps, behind barbed wire? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The other five bombardiers dropped their bombs the first time.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“I guess the bomb went off, and I guess it missed.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Did the bombings by the combined forces of France, England, Russia, and the United States mean Hitler was losing? Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes rise up to the ceiling and stay there, glued to the dried-up wet-tissue bombs hanging on for dear life. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“If I had a bomb, I would not hide it in my bag,” Kainene muttered. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Oh, certainly not. It’s too obvious a target for bombings.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

In Washington, Leslie Groves told Truman a third atomic bomb “should be ready for delivery on the first suitable weather after 17 or 18 August.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girls’ restroom—the place where the bomb exploded— has also remained frozen in time. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Look: When a dam breaks, it doesn't explode like a bomb. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Mam herself could get a job in an English factory making bombs or something and God knows we wouldn’t know ourselves with the money pouring in. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Zhenya and Valya watched to see when their leader’s bomb bay doors opened, to give them a clue when to drop their own bombs. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The best thing about the reports, Kvasnikov knew, was that the bomb plans from both Hall and Fuchs were nearly identical. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z