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Thermonuclear   /θˌərmoʊnˈukliər/   Listen
Thermonuclear

adjective
1.
Using nuclear weapons based on fusion as distinguished from fission.



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"Thermonuclear" Quotes from Famous Books



... going to destroy it? TNT or dynamite or Radex-3 would have still left enough behind for a good Soviet team to make some kind of sense out of it—some kind of hint would be there, unless an awful lot of it were used. A fission or a thermonuclear bomb would have vaporized it, but that would have been a violation of the East-West Agreement. We'd be flatly ...
— Hail to the Chief • Gordon Randall Garrett
... the heat, blast and radiation effects of a megaton thermonuclear bomb at a kilometer ought to stand up under what was coming. At least, the periastron effects; there was ...
— Oomphel in the Sky • Henry Beam Piper
... spun crazily through space a million miles off her trajectory. Her black-painted hull resembled a long thermonuclear weapon, and below her and only a scant twenty million miles away burned the hungry, flaming ...
— Rescue Squad • Thomas J. O'Hara
... elements, einsteinium ({99}Es) and fermium ({100}Fm), were originally found in the debris from the thermonuclear device "Mike," which was detonated on Eniwetok atoll November 1952. (This method of creating new substances is somewhat more extravagant than the mythical Chinese method of burning down a building ...
— A Brief History of Element Discovery, Synthesis, and Analysis • Glen W. Watson


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