The development of nuclear fission weapons and later thermonuclear fusion weapons represented an incomparable revolution in weaponry. |
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While at Los Alamos, Teller began his own research on the feasibility of a thermonuclear or hydrogen fusion bomb. |
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Fusion bombs, also called thermonuclear bombs, have higher kiloton yields and greater efficiencies than fission bombs. |
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When in 1949-50, the Soviet Union made its first nuclear bomb test, Teller pushed for the thermonuclear bomb as part of the U.S. defense program. |
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The line is crossed once it's massive enough to start thermonuclear reactions in the core. |
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Since those temperatures generally amount to a few million degrees, fusion reactions are also known as thermonuclear reactions. |
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From 1957 until his death in 1976, Heisenberg worked on problems in plasma physics and thermonuclear processes. |
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We freely describe the thermonuclear fusion of hydrogen in the centers of stars as burning. |
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In the Sun, the process of thermonuclear fusion converts atoms of hydrogen into helium atoms, producing radiant energy. |
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Plasma physicists recently reported key advances towards sustained thermonuclear fusion in the laboratory. |
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Such events include thermonuclear reactions within the sun, interactions between cosmic rays and black-hole-creating star collapses. |
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He suggested that radiation implosion, rather than mechanical shock, be used to compress the thermonuclear fuel. |
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Objects 50 meters across strike Earth every few centuries, causing airbursts that rival the effects of large thermonuclear bombs. |
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In this thermonuclear age, defense is best assured by a strong air force in being. |
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Modern weapons with both fission and fusion stages are called thermonuclear or hydrogen bombs. |
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The successful test of Sakharov's bomb in August 1953 ended America's thermonuclear monopoly and earned the physicist his first medal. |
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I pointed out that there was surely no safer place on earth than a nuclear bunker designed to withstand a 20-megaton thermonuclear blast. |
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An intercontinental ballistic missile with a thermonuclear weapon would be deterrent enough. |
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Rockets, turbines, computers, solid-state electronics, and nuclear and thermonuclear devices were all relatively new to members of the early Cold War generation. |
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Made in the 1952 detonation of the first thermonuclear bomb, the element fermium has since sat in a corner of the periodic table where few tools of chemistry reach. |
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One was built around a two-stage, solid-fueled IRBM carrying a thermonuclear warhead. |
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An exploding thermonuclear weapon involves many extremely complicated, interacting physical and nuclear processes. |
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In contrast, the fuel in a thermonuclear weapon or ICF completely disassembles. |
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Second, the development of a two-stage thermonuclear weapon is very challenging. |
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In the months that followed Truman's decision, the prospect of building a thermonuclear weapon seemed less and less likely. |
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Just last week, North Korea conducted a nuclear test of what it claims was a thermonuclear weapon. |
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Project Sherwood, aimed at controlling the stupendous energy released by thermonuclear fusion. |
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In a plasma composed of fuel capable of undergoing thermonuclear fusion, that research could lead to more economical reactor designs. |
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The Community intends to negotiate with Japan a cooperation agreement in the field of research on thermonuclear fusion. |
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Research into thermonuclear fusion is of major importance, irrespective of short-term fluctuations in the price of oil. |
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The Soviet discovery of the major ideas behind the thermonuclear bomb went through several stages. |
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Tritium and 14CDIC in groundwaters were also measured to assess recharge of the thermonuclear bomb pulse. |
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New war will most likely expand into a thermonuclear war spilling over into China and Russia. |
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This, together with our incomplete knowledge of what to expect in the thermonuclear regime, makes ITER a risky project. |
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Fortunately, this will not be the opening volley in a global thermonuclear war. |
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The EU, Japan, Russia and the United States plan a joint project to build an international thermonuclear experimental reactor. |
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In the beginning there were very few Soviet ballistic missiles armed with very large thermonuclear warheads. |
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The competition for the machine installation of with thermonuclear fusion is announced tight. |
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It is also believed to be knowledgeable about sophisticated designs, including thermonuclear and boosted-fission weapons. |
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What is more, the energy emitted by these stars comes from the thermonuclear fusion of hydrogen. |
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He said that the sun was essentially a gigantic thermonuclear reactor. |
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Most of it is hydrogen-dominated gas or plasma, simple in behavior though bearing the seeds of elemental diversity through thermonuclear reactions in stars. |
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Deuterium plays a critical role in most thermonuclear fusion reactions. |
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If that strikes us as tiresome and tedious, we might as well just hang it up and trigger some global thermonuclear war. |
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Beginning in the early 1950s, atomic bombs were used as detonators for the most powerful explosives of all, thermonuclear hydrogen bombs, or H-bombs. |
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Fast ignition offers a potentially simpler method to achieve thermonuclear fusion without some of the technical hurdles facing conventional inertial-confinement fusion. |
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To gain a meaningful nuclear deterrent, a nation doesn't have to threaten the massive thermonuclear response major nuclear powers have been doing for so many years. |
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Fusion creates the power of the thermonuclear or hydrogen bomb. |
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So unless they start testing and I don't think they will, then we have to assume that they don't have the most sophisticated thermonuclear weapons. |
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Fortunately for civilization, none of these conflicts, with the possible exception of the Cuban missile crisis, pushed the world to the abyss of global thermonuclear war. |
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There need to be perfect conditions for the thermonuclear reaction to take place. |
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However, the Euratom implementation rules under the 7th Framework Programme have their own specific features, notably as regards research into controlled thermonuclear fusion. |
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Homeland and allied defence: All of these risks combine to create a need for homeland defence that most states have not seriously contemplated since the early days of the thermonuclear era. |
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The thermonuclear explosion of a white dwarf star produces such supernovas. |
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There is no theoretical limit to the number of stages that might be used and, consequently, no theoretical limit to the size and yield of a thermonuclear weapon. |
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In the frame of thermonuclear fusion, several projects have been undertaken at the HFR to test structural and breeding materials for future fusion reactors. |
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Controlled thermonuclear fusion could contribute to long-term energy supply and, therefore, to the requirements of sustainable development for a reliable centralised supply of baseload electricity. |
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Witnessing the explosion of a thermonuclear bomb over Christmas Island in 1958 would burn itself forever into the memory of John Michael Smith. |
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It could carry one thermonuclear bomb or up to twenty one 1000lb high explosive bombs. |
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It was on this day in 1957 that Britain exploded its first thermonuclear bomb. |
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But the really big difference between India and China arises from the fact that India's thermonuclear weapon capability is suspect. |
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In September 1961, two propelled thermonuclear warheads were launched from Vorkuta Sovetsky and Salekhard to target areas on Novaya Zemlya. |
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Controlled thermonuclear fusion is one of the long term options for energy supply in conditions of sustainable development, in particular for the centralised supply of base-load electricity. |
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General Wheeler, American Admiral Rickover, employed in preventing France from getting access to thermonuclear expertise, and a number of British chiefs of staff are some examples. |
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These spin to maintain the fantastic accuracy required to destroy hardened targets, such as missile silos, with a modest thermonuclear warhead yield. |
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Nowadays, research focuses on thermonuclear fusion technology and on nuclear safety and security, including environmental issues such as waste management or radiation protection. |
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Later he also contributed to controlled thermonuclear fusion research. |
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The fact remains that the Soviets, led by Andrei Sakharov who had helped Youri Khariton develop the fission bomb, immediately went down the nuclear road and, in August 1953, performed the first thermonuclear fusion test. |
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The efforts deployed in the context of the integrated European research programme on controlled thermonuclear fusion have enabled Europe to become a world leader in the field of research into fusion by magnetic confinement. |
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The Commission is hereby authorised to conclude a cooperation agreement on thermonuclear fusion between the European Atomic Energy Community and Kazakhstan. |
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Some very small blasts have a good chance of avoiding detection, but these would be too small to be useful in developing a thermonuclear weapon, the authors said. |
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The HFR is one of the most powerful research reactors of its kind and a key technological platform for fundamental, innovative, medical, thermonuclear fusion and reactor safety research. |
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The experiments proved that thermonuclear fusion powers the Sun. |
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In October 1986 the USA launched the idea of four-way cooperation between the USA, the Community, the USSR and Japan on thermonuclear fusion for the conceptual design of an international thermonuclear experimental reactor. |
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Britain now had an effective thermonuclear bomb. |
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It was only when thermonuclear fusion was recognised in the 1930s that Thomson's age paradox was truly resolved. |
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The thermonuclear bomb-pulse is clearly preserved in the tritium profile. |
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For the makers of bombs, the development of a thermonuclear bomb represents an advantage, because a thermonuclear bomb with two stages needs less fissile material per kt than a simple or a boosted-fission bomb. |
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Radionuclides are produced as an unavoidable result of nuclear fission and thermonuclear explosions. |
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A hydrogen bomb, also known as a thermonuclear bomb, uses more advanced technology to produce a significantly more powerful blast than an atomic bomb. |
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The RS-24 Yars is a solid fuel-based thermonuclear intercontinental ballistic missile equipped with at least four multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles. |
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Hence his chagrin at the fact that the conceptual break-through that made the thermonuclear weapon possible has always been attributed to him and Stanislaw Ulam jointly. |
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Deterrence-wise, India is robustly outclassed, with recently expressed doubts about its thermonuclear weapon tested in May 1998 adding to the nuclear imbalance. |
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Britain was 'economical with the truth' over claims to have detonated a thermonuclear bomb at Christmas Island, claims a Welsh international relations expert. |
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All the data included in the simulations were based on well-tested theories and rigorous experiments, including measurements from hundreds of thermonuclear bomb explosions. |
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The UK retains a stockpile of 215 thermonuclear warheads, of which 120 are operational as of 2016, but has refused to declare the exact size of its arsenal. |
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Tornadoes are destructive events but a tornado isn't even in the same realm as an atomic bomb, which in turn is dwarfed by the destruction inherent in a thermonuclear weapon. |
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