Answer: HBOMB
HBOMB is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 50 times.
- The first one went off in 1952
- Thermonuclear blast maker
- Weapon since 1952
- It was tested on Bikini, 1954
- Blast maker, informally
- Mushroom cloud maker
- Cold war threat
- Eniwetok test subject
- Thermonuclear explosive
- Cold war concern
- Nuclear device
- Weapon of mass destruction
- Nuclear weapon
- Edward Teller's legacy
- Mushroom cloud former, for short
- Oppenheimer opposed it
- Thermonuclear explosive (Abbr.)
- Cold war specter
- Fusion weapon
- Big bang maker, and it's no theory
- Explosive development of 1951
- Big bang maker
- *Weapon first tested in '52
- 16-Across concern, briefly
- Certain W.M.D.
- U.S.S.R.'s Big Ivan, e.g.
- Nuclear threat
- SALT subject
- Edward Teller's brainchild
- Subject of a '52 test
- "Ivy Mike" test weapon
- Big bang, and it's no theory
- 1950s WMD
- Test ban subject, briefly
- Godzilla creator, in the story
- Test ban subject
- Thermonuclear explosive, briefly
- Weapon since '52
- Bikini demolisher
- Eniwetok blaster, informally
- Big bang maker, informally
- What Teller called "The Super"
- A nuclear weapon
- Its testing awakened Godzilla ... and what's dropped, facetiously, into five puzzle answers
- Weapon in a 1952 test
- Eniwetok exploder
- Weapon of mass destruction, informally
- Cold War concern, for short
- Cold War concern ... and what created 20-, 32-, 40- and 55-Across?
- What awakens Godzilla from the ocean, informally