thermonuclear
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The challenge that Churchill faced in 1940 was existential for Britain, but the one Eisenhower faced as president when the Cold War entered the thermonuclear age was existential on a global level.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
And it's exactly what he went against when going full thermonuclear on Rodgers on Monday.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2025
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
Sure enough, when director Christopher Nolan asked him to emulate the sound of the world’s first thermonuclear device for “Oppenheimer,” King had his epic-scaled 2013 Chelyabinsk asteroid reference close at hand.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2024
In other words, Teller was to have no formal authority at Livermore but was granted the implicit authority to direct its thermonuclear research program as he saw fit.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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