Thunderball may refer to:
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''Thunderball'' (novel), 1961 James Bond novel by Ian Fleming
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''Thunderball'' (film), 1965 film adaptation of the novel starring Sean Connery
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''Thunderball'' (soundtrack), of the 1965 film
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Thunderball (comics)
Thunderball (Eliot Franklin) is a fictional character, a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He is a frequent enemy of Thor and a reluctant ally of the Wrecker and the Wrecking Crew.
The character made h ...
, comics character
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''Thunderball'' (U.D.O. album), also the title song
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Thunderball (band)
Fort Knox Five is a Washington, D.C.-based musical group consisting of Steve Raskin, Jon Horvath, Rob Myers and Sid Barcelona. The musical collective releases music through their self-run label, Fort Knox Recordings. Their music style mixes elem ...
, a band at one time signed to
ESL Music
Eighteenth Street Lounge Music (ESL Music) is an independent record label based in Washington, D.C. founded by Rob Garza and Eric Hilton in 1996 in music, 1996. The duo, as Thievery Corporation, heads the label's roster of artists.
Roster
ESL Musi ...
*Operation Thunderball, original name of
Operation Entebbe
Operation Entebbe, also known as the Entebbe Raid or Operation Thunderbolt, was a counter-terrorist hostage-rescue mission carried out by commandos of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) at Entebbe Airport in Uganda on 4 July 1976.
A week earl ...
, a 1976 hostage-rescue mission
*Thunderball, a game (draw), introduced in 1999, in the United Kingdom's
National Lottery,
*Thunderball, fictional game in sketches by comedy troupe ''
Upright Citizens Brigade
The Upright Citizens Brigade is an improvisational and sketch comedy group that emerged from Chicago's ImprovOlympic in 1990. The original incarnation of the group consisted of Matt Besser, Amy Poehler, Ian Roberts, Matt Walsh, Adam McKay, Ri ...
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See also
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Never Say Never Again
''Never Say Never Again'' is a 1983 spy film directed by Irvin Kershner. The film is based on the 1961 James Bond novel '' Thunderball'' by Ian Fleming, which in turn was based on an original story by Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham, and Flemi ...
'', 1983 film adaptation of the novel.
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Mushroom cloud
A mushroom cloud is a distinctive mushroom-shaped flammagenitus cloud of debris, smoke and usually condensed water vapor resulting from a large explosion. The effect is most commonly associated with a nuclear explosion, but any sufficiently ener ...
, a nuclear explosion effect, sometimes known as a 'thunderball'
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Ball lightning
Ball lightning is a rare and unexplained phenomenon described as luminescent, spherical objects that vary from pea-sized to several meters in diameter. Though usually associated with thunderstorms, the observed phenomenon is reported to last c ...
, a reported, but controversial, atmospheric electrical phenomenon
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Thunderbolt
A thunderbolt or lightning bolt is a symbolic representation of lightning when accompanied by a loud thunderclap. In Indo-European mythology, the thunderbolt was identified with the 'Sky Father'; this association is also found in later Hell ...
, a discharge of lightning, or a symbolic representation of it
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