A-bomb

The daughter of physicists, Sorokko grew up in Arzamas-16, home of the first Soviet A-bomb, a “closed city.”

Against the generals, the president was declaring that the A-bomb was not just another weapon.

"Well, an A-bomb's a pretty complicated piece of mechanism, even if you have the plans for it," Kent Pickering said.

But your A-bomb at zero minus one second looks as harmless as a fallen log.

It wasn't exactly an A-bomb, but the spray hit us a half mile away, and the surface wave swamped us.

They'd go up like an A-bomb two minutes after they threw it on.

"All right, they could have built an A-bomb," Buhrmann said.