bomb (noun) — sense 3

An explosive device used or intended as a weapon, especially, one dropped from an aircraft.: Events or conditions that have a speedy destructive effect.

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Example
If Alberta’s reserves are a carbon bomb, this global expansion of tar sands and oil shale exploitation amounts to an escalating emissions arms race, the unlocking of a subterranean cache of weapons of mass ecological destruction.
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Part of speech
noun

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