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thermonuclear weapon





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If the biggest thermonuclear weapon ever detonated — the Soviet Union’s Tsar Bomba — corresponded to the height of Mount Everest, the atomic device that flattened Hiroshima would stand just under nine feet tall.

From Salon • Oct. 8, 2023

Imagine the infamous Tsar Bomba—the most powerful thermonuclear weapon ever detonated—and you’re about five billionths of the way there.

From Scientific American • Jan. 26, 2023

North Korea’s previous six nuclear tests saw it detonate progressively larger weapons; the final one was viewed as likely to be a thermonuclear weapon.

From Reuters • Apr. 22, 2022

As later became clear, he was targeted by other members of the security establishment, most notably Edward Teller, because of Oppenheimer’s initial hesitancy to endorse the development of a thermonuclear weapon.

From Slate • Aug. 23, 2018

Eisenhower’s remarks revived the contempt for the very concept of a “safe” thermonuclear weapon that had been raised by Strauss’s invention of the “humanitarian H-bomb.”

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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