thermonuclear

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Stalin’s behavior, and an unfortunate leak from a highly placed senator, drove Truman to authorize work on “the Super,” a thermonuclear bomb hundreds of times more powerful than the one that leveled Hiroshima.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026

The F-35A Lightning II jets stationed at the base have successfully been flight tested to carry the short-range B61-12 thermonuclear bomb, a tactical weapon designed for the battlefield.

From BBC • Jul. 23, 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

Since Hiroshima, there had been more than 190 atomic and thermonuclear tests in the atmosphere, underground, and at sea.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik