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
He kept the U.S. out of any major war and developed a nuclear strategy that evolved from “massive retaliation” to a policy that recognized how an all-or-nothing approach to thermonuclear weapons would be too dangerous.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 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
Very few of these stars are of the massive short-lived variety that squander their reserves of thermonuclear fuel.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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