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

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

Gopalaswamy says that direct-drive ICF is a promising approach for achieving thermonuclear ignition and net energy in laser fusion.

From Science Daily • Feb. 5, 2024

Had Jupiter been several dozen times more massive, the matter in its interior would have undergone thermonuclear reactions, and Jupiter would have begun to shine by its own light.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan