atomics n. 2

My men are rounding up the Asteroid jewels. Got bushels of them so far. Putting them under locks you'd have to use atomics to get open.

‘There’s a weapon right at our hands—the strongest one in the world. All we have to do is use it.’ La Boucherie stilled. ‘Atomics?’ he said, and his voice was not quite steady.

Six of those targets that did such fancy dodging were atomics, aimed at the Lines.

Outside of atomics, I know of no explosive powerful enough to destroy an entire worm. They're incredibly tough.

There’s not a chance we'd even notice bomb damage down there. Not that there’s the slightest chance of damage in the first place—that chamber’s deep enough to stand up to anything except tactical atomics.

She didn’t use nukes. I use them instead of chemical explosives because atomics let me work in the Hiroshima Shadow Effect.

The Ancients destroyed themselves in that terrible flurry of orbit-to-earth atomics and tailor-virus bombs called the Sixty Minute War.