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...we split the atom and release this energy.

Don DeLillo -- Underworld

...the city had been destroyed by the energy released when atoms were somehow split in two.

John Hersey -- Hiroshima

I don’t trust no atom bombs.

Ray Bradbury -- The Martian Chronicles

They had teethed away the last atoms of its substance.

Arthur C. Clarke -- Childhood’s End

America’s a brave new Atomic world and the South’s just beginning its Industrial Revolution.

Harper Lee -- Go Set a Watchman

Even the room felt restive: The afternoon sun lit up an atomic flurry of dust motes.

Gillian Flynn -- Gone Girl

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And she was on the ship again with her father, with Valentine, and she was throwing everything she had, every bit of strength, every last atom of will and energy into crafting a rune, a rune that would burn down the world, that would reverse death, that would make the oceans fly up into the sky.

Cassandra Clare -- City of Heavenly Fire

Or how about a linear accelerator, just a small one so I can split a few atoms?

Rodman Philbrick -- Freak the Mighty

In the silence that had slammed down after the 4th Wave struck, the report of the rounds sounded louder than an atomic blast.

Rick Yancey -- The 5th Wave

My brothers liked it if we got one with F-16 fighter jets or nuclear missiles, though my father said if our politicians hadn’t spent so much money on building an atomic bomb we might have had enough for schools.

Malala Yousafzai -- I Am Malala

They seemed to be going haywire, colliding with one another like excited atoms.

Ransom Riggs -- Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

The echo seemed to shake the very atoms of his being.

Nicholas Sparks -- The Choice

Glass turned slowly, every atom in her body turning to ice.

Kass Morgan -- The 100

He asks questions about atoms and clouds, about fish and mammals, about famous religions and dead presidents.

Sharon M. Draper -- Out of My Mind

When every atom of you strains to do the opposite?

Jojo Moyes -- Me Before You

The exercise will be programmed as if an atom bomb had exploded and incendiary and high-powered bombs had rained down on the entire amusement area.

Judy Blume -- In the Unlikely Event

He took first shot and killed about thirty of mine with an atomic bomb.

Christopher Paul Curtis -- The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963

We were doing the molecular structure of atoms and how they vibrate.

Louise Rennison -- Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging

"I merely rearranged the atoms," Charles Wallace said loftily.

Madeleine L’Engle -- A Wrinkle in Time

If you figured out a way to bring yourself to another time, probably through some sort of teleportation—you’d be somehow re-creating your atoms, really, not physically moving them, I’m guessing; that would be tricky…."

Rebecca Stead -- When You Reach Me

They circled the twisted, scarred Atomic Dome.

Eleanor Coerr -- Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes

Carrying a whole lot of atomic weight.

Gary D. Schmidt -- Okay for Now

"There’s atoms, which is things that is too small to see, that’s what we’re all made of.

Neil Gaiman -- The Graveyard Book

Right before the Cultural Revolution, the picture had been of a huge mushroom cloud from an atomic explosion, with a tiny big-nosed American trembling in the corner.

Ji-Li Jiang -- Red Scarf Girl

The bomb didn’t detonate during the crash, of course, because atomic weapons don’t work that way.

David Baldacci -- Zero Day

By adding microscopic layers, a few thousand atoms every month, each atop the next.

Anthony Doerr -- All the Light We Cannot See

And God created the whole universe from an atom no bigger than a thought.

Lauren Oliver -- Delirium

Then Damien’s eyes go wide like he’s just discovered the atom or the concept of self-pleasure.

Katja Millay -- The Sea of Tranquility

Through the years he took his stopped watches to "the One who set the atoms dancing," or "who keeps the great currents circling through the sea."

Corrie Ten Boom -- The Hiding Place

But you mustn’t act like the atomic bomb has fallen on you.

William Styron -- Sophie’s Choice

Anyway, we’ll probably blow ourselves sky-high before the end of the century, given the atom bomb and the way things are going.

Margaret Atwood -- Cat’s Eye

I asked Xandra one evening when she was in the kitchen unwrapping the night’s plastic tray of Atomic Wings and blue cheese dip.

Donna Tartt -- The Goldfinch

Perhaps it was the time when the atomic bomb had fallen on Colchester.

George Orwell -- 1984

He used a word that sounded like "atomic."

Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken

We’ve started and won two atomic wars since 1960.

Ray Bradbury -- Fahrenheit 451

About the atom bomb?

William Golding -- Lord of the Flies

The field growing and growing, the molecules bursting apart but finding nowhere for the separate atoms to go.

Orson Scott Card -- Ender’s Game

In a bombproof dug-out I may be smashed to atoms and in the open may survive ten hours’ bombardment unscathed.

Erich Maria Remarque -- All Quiet on the Western Front

The visit before this one, it was oxygen atoms in the atmosphere scattering the blue light from the sun.

Khaled Hosseini -- A Thousand Splendid Suns

Did Saddam actually own the completed article, a finely tuned atomic bomb or missile?

Marcus Luttrell -- Lone Survivor

Anyway, I’m sort of glad they’ve got the atomic bomb invented.

J.D. Salinger -- The Catcher in the Rye

I don’t believe there’s an atom of meaning in it.’

Lewis Carroll -- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

The impact of a four-ton pickup truck going sixty miles an hour plowing straight into the passenger side had the force of an atom bomb.

Gayle Forman -- If I Stay

For a few weeks, I preoccupied myself with gravity and momentum, atoms and cells, the Anglo-Afghan wars, instead of thinking about Hassan and what had happened to him.

Khaled Hosseini -- The Kite Runner

Did they drop the atom bomb?

Sue Monk Kidd -- The Secret Life of Bees

She was beautiful the way an atomic explosion is beautiful.

Rick Riordan -- The Red Pyramid