Things that make cities go boom. The use of atomic bombs in fiction started as soon as the possibilities of splitting the atom became known - H. G. Wells first used the term in fiction in 1914, before their invention. When the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki showed just what effect they had, they became an integral part of culture. This is about them in both fact and in fiction. * Nuclear Glossary * Types of Nuclear Weapons * The Moscow Criterion * The Deadliest Mushroom Specific subtropes: What is counted in the nuclear weapons listings: