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How To Use thermonuclear In A Sentence

• Fusion bombs, also called thermonuclear bombs, have higher kiloton yields and greater efficiencies than fission bombs.
• The implications of failure, resulting in thermonuclear exchange between the two superpowers during the Cold War, were horrendous. Who's the World's Sheriff - the UN or the U.S.?
• Sir, we have not demonstrated the resolve to do anything, let alone stage a thermonuclear attack on a Russian target. CHAINS OF COMMAND
• Thermonuclear reactions are, quite literally, nuclear burning.
• He suggested that radiation implosion, rather than mechanical shock, be used to compress the thermonuclear fuel.
• The début Soviet atomic test in 1949 was followed by the first American thermonuclear test in 1952 and a thermonuclear Soviet test in 1953.
• The successful test of Sakharov's bomb in August 1953 ended America's thermonuclear monopoly and earned the physicist his first medal.
• In the Sun, the process of thermonuclear fusion converts atoms of hydrogen into helium atoms, producing radiant energy.
• Through a process known as ‘boosting,’ you get a thermonuclear reaction.
• Because extremely high temperatures are required in order to initiate fusion reactions, the hydrogen bomb is also known as a thermonuclear bomb. Archive 2010-02-01