thermonuclear

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• Tiny crystals of uranium could set off massive explosions within a dead star, physicists propose, making for a cosmic version of a thermonuclear bomb.

• The stars form from pockets of cold gas that contract under their own gravity and ignite thermonuclear fusion in their centers.

• If that strikes us as tiresome and tedious, we might as well just hang it up and trigger some global thermonuclear war.

• There need to be perfect conditions for the thermonuclear reaction to take place.

• Any deal is good in that it averts thermonuclear economic collapse.

• The daily brief said nothing about widespread plutonium dispersal or about the lost thermonuclear bomb.

• A second group worked to locate the lost thermonuclear bomb, called a “broken arrow” in Defense Department terms.

• Larch put off another entertainment of small stuff, with a fifty megaton thermonuclear, viewscreen-piloted, among them.

• In that year, too, tests were made at Eniwetok preliminary to the detonation of the first thermonuclear device.

• Project Sedan, an underground thermonuclear detonation in 1962, established conditions for one such study.

• Thermonuclear weapons, complemented over time by strong conventional forces, threatened societal damage to Russia.