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

This setup, the report said, would allow launching sites to be “relatively invulnerable” to enemy warheads, requiring a “massive blanket Soviet thermonuclear attack” to destroy Iceworm launchers.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2026

The F-35A Lightning II squadron at the base is now certified to carry the B61-12 thermonuclear munition.

From BBC • Apr. 22, 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

A few weeks before Greenhouse, Bradbury had tried to mollify the willful physicist by creating a semiautonomous thermonuclear division at Los Alamos, giving Teller authority over 25 scientists.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik