thermonuclear weapon

South Korea had now acquired its first two thermonuclear weapons.

The Field can be used for protection against lasers, thermonuclear weapons, and nearly anything else.

But I really wanted to know why a planetary government at peace needed a military establishment with thermonuclear weapons.

They added that the Soviets might develop, or had already developed, thermonuclear weapon.

Thermonuclear weapons produce a significant part of their yield from nuclear fusion.

The weapon had a short lifetime, and was replaced by thermonuclear weapons in the mid-1950s.

To be fair, no one is seriously advocating the use of thermonuclear weapons to save the environment.

Lithium-6 has been concentrated for use in thermonuclear weapons.

At the time, this division was primarily occupied in the design of the first thermonuclear weapon.

They had not developed an airborne thermonuclear weapon before the United States.

In the event, X-radiation would prove crucial to making thermonuclear weapons work.

The mines were thermonuclear weapons, each fitted with a simple magnetic lens.

Fusion, the joining together of atoms, is the process that powers the sun, the stars and thermonuclear weapons.

Thermonuclear weapons are rather simple, and use common materials - after all, they made them back in the Second Millennium!

Actually, thermonuclear weapons, detonated at a suitable height, would do the job faster.

Gold has been used in thermonuclear weapons as radiation mirrors within the secondary assembly.

In particular, higher yield thermonuclear weapons have thermal pulses which last for several seconds.

The Mark 15 is widely described as a transitional design between fission and thermonuclear weapons.

By 2002 it was estimated that the number had increased to between 75 and 200 thermonuclear weapons, each in the multiple-megaton range.

The Soviet thermonuclear weapons program initially researched two weapon designs.

China stole design information regarding the United States' seven most advanced thermonuclear weapons.

The plutonium left would have less than 6 percent impurities, making it acceptable for use in thermonuclear weapons.

The plant processes and shapes plutonium into triggers for thermonuclear weapons.

The committee found that China had obtained classified information on seven of America's most modern thermonuclear weapons.

Thermonuclear weapons produce their energy through a multi-stage process that is completed within a small fraction of a second.