  Momentum and angular distributions of charged meson pairs $h^+h^-$ ($h=\pi,
K$) from elementary atoms (EA) breakup (ionization) in the Coulomb field of a
target atom is considered in the Born and Glauber approximations. Exploiting
the fact that the atomic screening of the target Coulomb potential is important
at small transfer momenta, while multi-photon exchanges are essential at large
transfer momenta we express the cross sections of EA breakup as a sum of two
terms. In the region of modest transfer momenta the cross section is determined
by the single-photon exchange (first Born approximation) accounting for the
target atoms screening, whereas at large transfer momenta using the unscreened
potential allows to take into account all multi-photon exchanges and obtain the
cross section of EA breakup in the close analytical form.
