7 sentences with 'atomic'
Example sentences and phrases with the word atomic and other words derived from it.
• « Solar and atomic energy management, space travel, psyche control and many other merits were attributed to the mysterious Atlanteans. »
• « The Manhattan Project, a secret military operation housed in a former boarding school in Los Alamos, New Mexico, succeeded in creating and then detonating an atomic bomb on 16 July. »
• « Simultaneously, the world was forced to grapple with the fact that human beings now had the capacity to extinguish all life on earth through atomic weapons. These two traumas, the Holocaust and the bomb, forced "Western civilisation" as a whole to rethink its own identity afterwards. »
• « The USSR tested its first atomic bomb in August 1949, thus establishing the stakes of the conflict: the total destruction of human life. »
• « Another similarity with Chernobyl, that of the famous Mururoa atoll where France carried out several atomic tests, is a further sign of the horror: "That island, which was a paradise around Tahiti, looks like a gruyere cheese. It will be impossible to live there for ever," say the scientists. »
• « As with other phenomena - atomic behaviour, light, etc. - man has tamed electricity; he generates it and distributes it wherever he wishes, but he has not yet come to know its essence. »
• « Isotopes are bodies that have identical chemical properties but different atomic weights. In fact, almost all natural elements are mixtures of isotopes. »