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blast

Verb, Noun

The blast wave caused massive fires across Hiroshima, destroying most wooden buildings.

Modern nuclear weapons can produce a blast hundreds of times stronger than the Hiroshima bomb.

At the hypocenter of Nagasaki, the blast was so intense that it evaporated steel structures and human bodies instantly.

Survivors of Hiroshima recalled the atomic blast as a blinding flash of light followed by a deafening roar.

6 Aug. 1945

Historical Facts

During the Cold War, the destructive power of a nuclear blast was a central element of deterrence theory.

The blast from the Hiroshima bomb incinerated everything within a one-mile radius of ground zero.

The blast shattered windows miles away from the explosion site.

The atomic blast over Hiroshima in 1945 was equivalent to about 15 kilotons of TNT.

The meteor hit the satellite and blasted it to smithereens.

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