• unexposedhazard
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    1 day ago

    “A-bomb”? What kinda weird phrasing is that? Just call it what it is.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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      24 hours ago

      “A-bomb”? What kinda weird phrasing

      The A-bomb was very a mainstream topic and that abbreviation was common.

      The journalist should have dereferenced it on first use, though, as is proper.

    • Zaktor@sopuli.xyz
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      1 day ago

      That’s what it is. The A-Bomb or Atom Bomb was the type of nuclear weapon dropped on Japan. It’s a fusion weapon rather than the later fission weapons called H-Bombs.