thermonuclear
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He kept the U.S. out of any major war and developed a nuclear strategy that evolved from “massive retaliation” to a policy that recognized how an all-or-nothing approach to thermonuclear weapons would be too dangerous.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026
And it's exactly what he went against when going full thermonuclear on Rodgers on Monday.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2025
During his Nobel Peace Prize speech, Martin Luther King Jr. declared: “I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of thermonuclear destruction.”
From Salon ● Oct. 6, 2024
Sure enough, when director Christopher Nolan asked him to emulate the sound of the world’s first thermonuclear device for “Oppenheimer,” King had his epic-scaled 2013 Chelyabinsk asteroid reference close at hand.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2024
There were issues to manage at the fledgling Livermore lab, thermonuclear tests to attend in the Nevada desert and plans to be made for new tests at Eniwetok.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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