thermonuclear
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Type Ia supernovae are extremely bright explosions that are generally believed to occur when a white dwarf becomes unstable and undergoes a runaway thermonuclear reaction.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026
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
One big challenge: Jackson needed to construct physical visualizations of subatomic activity leading up to the world’s first thermonuclear bomb explosion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2023
The device was not a hydrogen bomb, exactly, but it was “the first thermonuclear test explosion on earth,” in the words of one witness, the young Berkeley physicist Herbert York.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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