Two years earlier, the USSR detonated its first thermonuclear device.
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The first Soviet thermonuclear test, in 1953, used that method.
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The first thermonuclear weapon was tested by the US in 1952.
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Armageddon. Of course, the advent of accurate ICBMs and thermonuclear warheads
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Busting ghosts and fighting aliens and averting thermonuclear war is everyone's job.
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They have food that lasts even in the event of thermonuclear war.
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North Korea claimed to have detonated a thermonuclear, or hydrogen, weapon underground.
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Just look at how quickly the show shrugged off global thermonuclear war!
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Fortunately, global thermonuclear war is averted by the end of the movie.
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A modern thermonuclear weapon is going to be roughly one hundred kilotons.
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Plutonium is also ideal for igniting the thermonuclear fuel of hydrogen bombs.
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WarGames is a classic film about video games and global thermonuclear war.
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"How could a thermonuclear blast trigger such a weak seismic signal?" he said.
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But let's assume the worst case: North Korea has joined the thermonuclear club.
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India and Pakistan have nuclear weapons, but none are believed to be thermonuclear.
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There is nothing even close to the power of a modern thermonuclear warhead.
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Such a system would remove the spectre of thermonuclear war from human civilization.
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The largest and most expensive research effort is the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor.
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Nothing protects against thermonuclear weapons: not shelter, not nuclear deterrence, not missile defenses.
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That was when it tested its first thermonuclear weapon fueled by the isotope.
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An online ad suggests that the country has been working on thermonuclear weapons.
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When the thermonuclear warhead turned up missing, we were all frantic, of course.
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Because when you shut down grids people aren't eviscerated in a thermonuclear explosion.
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Basically, a zombie star charged up and went thermonuclear—and it could happen again.
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Now, Russia has declassified the first image of its new thermonuclear intercontinental ballistic missile.
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Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States are known to possess thermonuclear weapons.
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Also consider: No matter the outcome of today, Breitbart will go thermonuclear against Ryan.
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It doesn't take a thermonuclear war to see how this could go terribly wrong.
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In the former category we've got killer hurricanes, thermonuclear Kim, the shameful DACA decision.
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Caplan's second proposed stellar engine, a thermonuclear driven jet, overcomes some of these pitfalls.
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"I can't imagine they're not working on true thermonuclear weapons," one expert told him.
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But North Korea's goal for decades has been to build a thermonuclear intercontinental ballistic missile.
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A machine with 59,400 bricks should be sufficient to achieve thermonuclear ignition, according to Stygar.
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The F-16 can carry anything from Sidewinder missiles to B61 or B83 thermonuclear bombs.
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In and out of the ring, Badr Hari's a thermonuclear device with a hair trigger.
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Not one to exit without incident, the old soi dog went thermonuclear in Round 19703.
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"A thermonuclear weapon does more damage," he continued, using another name for a hydrogen bomb.
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Valentin Savitsky's desire to launch a nuclear weapon, which could have ignited global thermonuclear war.
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The rules are simple: First, never read a novel that involves a missing thermonuclear warhead.
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The North claimed the device it tested was a thermonuclear weapon — commonly called an H-bomb.
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The government's plans for protecting itself from a rain of thermonuclear fire are much more detailed.
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Typically, super luminous supernovae are the result of thermonuclear combustion — or a big star bomb, essentially.
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North Korea claimed to have detonated a thermonuclear device in a nuclear test on Sept. 3.
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The engines were so powerful that a single missile could hurl 2250 thermonuclear warheads between continents.
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In that step, weapon designers wrap alternating layers of thermonuclear fuel and uranium around atom bombs.
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"I can't imagine they're not working on true thermonuclear weapons," Dr. Hecker said in an interview.
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Saving the planet ought to be as easy as the press of a thermonuclear button, right?
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Thermonuclear weapons, far more powerful than the atomic kind, are almost certainly beyond the North's know-how.
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The game puts the player in the distant future, where Earth was destroyed in a thermonuclear war.
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" During the Politico interview, Rubin also took aim at the president, saying he is "threatening thermonuclear war.
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The North, he says, may be pursuing an intermediate stage of thermonuclear arms design known as layering.
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Could it be that the missing thermonuclear warhead and the chief inspector were one and the same?
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In the mid-1950s, the testing of thermonuclear bombs left a huge amount of radiocarbon in the atmosphere.
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In August, he repeated his belief that humans should drop thermonuclear weapons on Mars to warm the planet.
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In the past, they note, false alerts have repeatedly brought the world to the brink of thermonuclear disaster.
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I think it serves no one, the media, or Trump, to have a thermonuclear war with each other.
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Meet the Nuclear Weapons NerdsCastle Bravo, the first high-yield thermonuclear weapon U.S. design test at at Bikini Atoll.
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We detailed last season how his thermonuclear outburst on the NBA was one of the best stories in sports.
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Powell was working on a Titan II missile fitted with a thermonuclear warhead, tucked away underground in Damascus, Arkansas.
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Russia has declassified the first ever image of its new thermonuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missile, the RS-28 Sarmat.
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And there are manmade disasters — risk of a "nuclear winter" in the aftermath of a thermonuclear war, for one.
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The White House said Wednesday it was skeptical of North Korea's claim that it successfully detonated a thermonuclear device.
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The nuclear test, most experts believe, did not in fact demonstrate the ability to build a thermonuclear hydrogen bomb.
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When I was there for the BBC, the rhetoric was incredibly angry—threatening the United States with thermonuclear war.
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The cycle continues until the star's outer layers completely collapse, creating a thermonuclear explosion that annihilates the star entirely.
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China also somehow acquired the design of the W-88, a thermonuclear warhead that sits atop Trident submarine missiles.
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Every second, thermonuclear reactions in the center of the Sun turn 5 million tons of hydrogen into pure energy.
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Still, emerging clues suggested the North was indeed going down the thermonuclear road — particularly in enhancing its atom bombs.
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It is thermonuclear pandemic level bad — never seen an actual virality coefficient outside of Twitter in my entire career.
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For the soldiers participating in the exercise, the potentially thermonuclear dimensions of Cold Response 2020 may not be obvious.
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North Korea is within months of having effective, high-yield thermonuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles for their delivery.
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Will 280 characters allow for just enough nuance and diplomacy that we may be able to avert global thermonuclear war?
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The result has been a stalemate that Ri said has put the peninsula at the crossroads of a thermonuclear war.
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North Korea&aposs arsenal now includes purported thermonuclear warheads and developmental ICBMs potentially capable of striking the continental United States.
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Apple has officially been dethroned as the king of Wall Street — by the company it once declared "thermonuclear war" against.
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Another advancement likely to happen relatively soon is the development of the thermonuclear warhead -- a powerful type of nuclear weapon.
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On March 1, 1954, the Pentagon conducted Castle Bravo and detonated a 15 megaton thermonuclear warhead over the Bikini Atoll.
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As the Soviet Union collapsed after 85033 years of threatened global thermonuclear war, it seemed no enemies were in sight.
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But once North Korea conducted an underground test of a thermonuclear bomb last September, Trump began taking Kim more seriously.
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The very extinction of our world, whether by thermonuclear war or from unstoppable man-made climate change, is ominously possible.
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That method wraps alternating layers of thermonuclear fuel and uranium around atomic bombs, and burns more hydrogen than simple boosting.
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A paper published in 2008 described about how fungi could survive both a thermonuclear holocaust and a subsequent nuclear winter.
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North Korea claimed its latest nuclear test was a detonation of a thermonuclear weapon built for its developmental intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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However, the genetic mutations spread by fallout from those thermonuclear "war drums" render him an invalid with a rare bone disease.
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Our sun will burn for 10 billion years, with the intensity of over 10 billion thermonuclear weapons going off every second.
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He argues that, based on the experience of other countries, six tests is more than enough to develop a thermonuclear device.
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Thermonuclear weapons typically use a fission explosion to create a fusion reaction, which is far more powerful than a fission reaction.
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But I think there's something in the simple: Nomination — Victory — Trade War — Paranoid Freakout — Exchange of Thermonuclear Weapons With China variation.
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One reviewer of Herman Kahn's On Thermonuclear War (1960), which discussed planning for nuclear war, accused him of plotting mass murder.
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Since he took power in 2011, Pyongyang has conducted three nuclear tests, including what it claimed to be a thermonuclear device.
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The blast was smaller than the powerful explosion typically produced by a thermonuclear device, leading to widespread skepticism about the claim.
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After the Soviet Union and the United States tested the first thermonuclear bomb in 1953, the clocked ticked to 2 midnight.
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What beckoned was the idea of installing near the atom bomb a separate capsule that would hold much more thermonuclear fuel.
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The 74-year-old Washington Post associate editor also said Trump's "thermonuclear war" with the media serves either side no purpose.
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If we survived the Cuban missile crisis without a thermonuclear war, there's probably a way to get through this one, too.
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Like our own sun, Betelgeuse transfers its thermonuclear energy by convection from the center, where it is generated, to its surface.
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Briefly, Pyongyang considers its nuclear — and its claimed much more powerful thermonuclear — arms and their delivery vehicles its only life insurance.
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A hydrogen bomb, or a thermonuclear bomb, contains a fission weapon within it but there is a two-stage reaction process.
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An earlier version of this article misstated the length of time between the first American and Soviet tests of thermonuclear weapons.
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In one unsettling plot twist, a package containing a small thermonuclear device is slipped into an order of emergency food supplies.
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North Korea has conducted more than a dozen missile tests since Pyongyang claimed to have successfully detonated a thermonuclear device in January.
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The Trident, currently launched from ballistic missile submarines, carry a W-76 thermonuclear warhead carried inside a Mk-4 re-entry vehicle.
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Blaming a giant ball of thermonuclear explosions 21920 million miles away for genocide on Earth might sound crazy, and perhaps it is.
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That is a tricky feat to master, but a convenient way of explaining the relatively low yield for a genuine thermonuclear device.
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Indeed, North Korea's rush to gain the capacity to deliver a thermonuclear device to the American mainland demonstrates nuclear weapons' enduring allure.
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If the North Koreans really have mastered the engineering of a thermonuclear weapon, it would marginally increase the severity of that threat.
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Experts have argued for years about whether Israel possesses thermonuclear weapons or just the ability to make them should it want to.
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Besides, who wants to end up with "Starting global thermonuclear war" as the main accomplishment of their first 100 days in office?
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North Korea and its intention to develop a thermonuclear weapon topped the agenda, said Kerry at a joint press conference with Wang.
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His death enables her to finally access her ultimate core-power, strip down to the full metal swimsuit, and become personally thermonuclear.
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He or she can decide to trigger a thermonuclear Armageddon without consulting anyone at all and never has to demonstrate mental fitness.
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Meanwhile, the resulting fireball from a thermonuclear or hydrogen bomb can swallow and incinerate a 1-mile area in about a second.
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Weapon scientists anticipated a yield of 6 megatons, but new weapon designs led to the inadvertent discovery of thermonuclear fusion chain reactions.
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Once the white dwarf gobbled up as much material as it could hold, a thermonuclear explosion was triggered, resulting in a supernova.
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So the distance traveled, while impressive, does not necessarily translate into a working intercontinental ballistic missile that could deliver a thermonuclear warhead.
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They were known as thermonuclear because their ignition required the blistering heats of an exploding atom bomb, which acted like a match.
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The United States in 203 injected a tiny amount of thermonuclear fuel into the core of an atom bomb, boosting its power.
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That suggested its designers had used more atomic fuel, had achieved a higher rate of burning, or had engaged in thermonuclear boosting.
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Now, with three successful intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) blasts and a thermonuclear test in 22019, Kim has nearly completed his nuclear arsenal.
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The United States in 1951 injected a tiny amount of thermonuclear fuel into the core of an atomic bomb, enhancing its power.
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North Korea conducted what it claimed was its second test of a thermonuclear weapon in 2017, upping the lethality of its force.
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The spacecraft would use the helium to fuel the thermonuclear reactor, which in turn powers a high-energy jet used for propulsion.
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Ms. Hanham suggested the size could be to accommodate multiple warheads, whereas Mr. Lewis said he suspected ambitions for a thermonuclear device.
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Those traces may tell if this test was really a hydrogen bomb, or perhaps something less than a full-scale thermonuclear device.
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The calculations "were based on assumptions dating back 48 years about the lack of medical care in a thermonuclear war," DJI notes.
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It hasn't sat this close to midnight since 1953, a few months after the United States and Russia tested their first thermonuclear bombs.
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The seismic wave left by the explosion was smaller than what most experts would expect from the detonation of a true thermonuclear weapon.
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Burevestnik is less useful at winning a war, or maintaining peace, than at putting an exclamation point on a theoretical global thermonuclear apocalypse.
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The closest the clock has ever been to midnight—or doom—was in 1953, after the US and Soviet Union detonated thermonuclear weapons.
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That hydrogen builds up around the white dwarf, and eventually it gets so hot that it erupts in an extremely bright thermonuclear reaction.
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And he's said hitting Mars with thermonuclear weapons could warm the planet and create the equivalent of two suns over the planet's poles.
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The closest the clock has ever been to midnight—or doom—was in 703, after the US and Soviet Union detonated thermonuclear weapons.
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Quantum physics had just been discovered in the 1920s, and we concluded that there's thermonuclear fusion going on in the center of stars.
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They marked the way to the fallout shelters where millions of Americans were to take refuge from the deadly radioactivity of thermonuclear explosions.
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Probably "On Thermonuclear War," by Herman Kahn, not so much for what it said as for the ways that the arguments were made.
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What if the note contained the secrets to world peace, string theory, thermonuclear power reactors, or turning our skin into photosynthetic energy factories?
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The scope of Mao's ambition — to develop a thermonuclear weapon that could hit the United States — did not match American preconceptions of China.
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They are known as thermonuclear fuels because their ignition requires the blistering heat of an exploding atomic bomb, which acts like a match.
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And each is the signature of almost incomprehensibly violent motion, in the form of thermonuclear reactions and boiling gas pocked with magnetic storms.
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Its gripping, foot-on-the-gas plot touches on the fall of the Berlin Wall, stolen Stasi files, and a missing thermonuclear warhead.
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"I am a go-to guy, though, on what you should do with your portfolio in the event of thermonuclear war, " he said.
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"I am a go-to guy, though, on what you should do with your portfolio in the event of thermonuclear war," he said.
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They're always threatening to turn Seoul into a sea of fire and unleash a thermonuclear war, and people in Seoul just shrug about it.
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That generally means a classic 22008s "duck and cover" city buster of a thermonuclear bomb that could flatten an entire city in one blow.
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North Korea claims it now has the capability of mounting a thermonuclear weapon on a long-range missile capable of striking the United States.
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I don't advocate a thermonuclear war, but if negotiations fail, I advocate a surgical strike against these outlaws before they pose a real threat.
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North Korea's nuclear program made extraordinary progress, culminating last year in tests of intercontinental ballistic missiles, intermediate-range ballistic missiles and a thermonuclear device.
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Recently, United Nations investigators found evidence that the North's factories had succeeded in producing lithium 6, a rare ingredient needed to make thermonuclear fuel.
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Gregory S. Jones, a scientist at the RAND Corporation, said the North might have already used bits of thermonuclear fuel in its 2016 detonations.
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So many thermonuclear weapons were tested in the atmosphere then that the fallout contaminated every body of water on earth, and every person, too.
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A hydrogen bomb, also known as a thermonuclear bomb, uses more advanced technology to produce a significantly more powerful blast than other atomic devices.
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You can kill a fly with a thermonuclear weapon, with a Moab, with a cruise missile, with a machine gun, or with a fly swatter.
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A full, staged thermonuclear weapon incorporates smaller devices and is prized for its ability to generate a gigantic blast capable of flattening an entire city.
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America is shooting unarmed Minuteman III missiles, which are capable of carrying up to three thermonuclear devices each, in the general direction of North Korea.
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Now, nearly 600 years later, astronomers have figured out what those stargazers actually saw: a thermonuclear explosion caused by the interaction of two distant stars.
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But such a boosted device, by definition, is not a true H-bomb, even though the added thermonuclear reactions can modestly increase its destructive power.
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A head kicker of thermonuclear proportions, he is commonly regarded by fans and ringside aficionados as one of the greatest eight-limbed pugilists in History.
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In contrast, the United States could respond to any North Korean attack by delivering nearly 1,400 megatons of thermonuclear explosive on more than 5,000 warheads.
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Add nuclear weapons to the mix -- even if they aren't thermonuclear -- and Pyongyang could unleash devastation of a sort not seen in over 70 years.
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"North Korea poses an overt threat, a declared threat, to the world, and it has stated its intention to develop a thermonuclear weapon," he said.
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Tens of thousands of nuclear weapons were poised for instant launch on each side, threatening thermonuclear war and unimaginable death and destruction across the world.
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"Ronnie, Talk to Russia" Like a lot of people who grew up in the 22019s and early 1980s, Prince was worried about global thermonuclear war.
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Sterling and Waldman don't exactly work well together, which is the result of Sterling's thermonuclear bombast and Waldman's singular overdetermined dottiness in about equal measure.
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An online ad for what seems to be excess quantities of a bomb-boosting isotope suggests that the country has been working on thermonuclear weapons.
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China is a key contributor to the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, or ITER, the world's largest fusion reactor which is being built in southern France.
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Together with MoviePass CEO Mitch Lowe, the duo concocted a plan to go thermonuclear on the theater business the same day as the acquisition announcement.
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Five days later, Kim ordered his nation's most powerful nuclear test to date, a thermonuclear test blast that fractured the mountain above the test site.
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We are witnessing the last phase of Kim Jong Un's quest for a thermonuclear ICBM that can hit any part of the mainland United States.
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Pyongyang has conducted six nuclear tests, including its largest ever in September 2017 that was likely a thermonuclear weapon, commonly referred to as a hydrogen bomb.
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The issue is that the difference between the two kinds of nuclear weapons — A-bombs and H-bombs, also known as thermonuclear bombs — is highly nuanced.
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He already has a missile with the range to strike the United States and will probably soon be able to equip it with a thermonuclear warhead.
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" A senior North Korean official said Monday that the U.S. has created "a dangerous situation in which a thermonuclear war may break out at any minute.
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"Thermonuclear weapons are multistage devices, and the need to place two separate parts -- the primary and secondary -- would give a more oblong-like structure," Dewey said.
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North Korea claimed it set off a thermonuclear weapon during that test, but experts said the data showed it was more likely a boosted fission weapon.
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At the heart of the Imperial Presidency is the "thermonuclear monarchy" enjoyed by the president, who has the ability to launch a nuclear war at will.
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Thermonuclear weapons use a process making them much more powerful than the ones the U.S. utilized against Japan in World War II. View the discussion thread.
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Some experts have suggested it was perhaps a boosted fission weapon, which more complex than a conventional atomic bomb but less powerful than a thermonuclear device.
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"It's possible that North Korea has already boosted," Gregory S. Jones, a scientist at the RAND Corporation, said of the first step down the thermonuclear road.
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"California's regulations strike at the jugular of Facebook's active users with a thermonuclear impact on losses," said Eric Schiffer, CEO of private equity firm Patriarch Organization.
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The top agenda item will be pressing China on economic sanctions on North Korea over its weapons program — which may have expanded to include thermonuclear weapons.
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The second is a complex thermonuclear reactor powered by a Dyson sphere, which is a hypothetical type of massive power plant that feeds off of stars.
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A hydrogen bomb, also called a thermonuclear bomb or an H-bomb, uses a second stage of reactions to magnify the force of an atomic explosion.
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In the same way that I grew up with — and am numb to — the possibility of global thermonuclear war, so they are with the threat of terror.
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He's talking about a machine that uses a magnetic field to warp plasma into the shape of a torus in the hope of producing thermonuclear fusion power.
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It's the same time the clock reached in 1953 when the US and the Soviet Union had tested thermonuclear bombs, the most powerful weapons humankind had created.
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A. A hydrogen bomb, also known as a thermonuclear bomb, combines hydrogen isotopes under extremely high temperatures to form helium, in a process known as nuclear fusion.
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A. When Kim Jong-un, the North's leader, announced in December that his country had finally developed the technology to build a thermonuclear weapon, experts were skeptical.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) - Apple founder Steve Jobs once wanted "to go to thermonuclear war" against Google for – he said – copying the software that powers the iPhone.
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IN JANUARY North Korea detonated a nuclear device underground, its fourth such test and the first, it claimed, to show that it could build a thermonuclear weapon.
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Wellerstein: In 1954, the United States set off a very large thermonuclear weapon in the Marshall Islands, and it contaminated a lot of fish in the area.
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Dr. Sagan reports that during the operation, code-named Giant Lance, one of the B-52 bombers carrying thermonuclear arms came dangerously close to having an accident.
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But they're not going to do it by repeatedly forecasting a stock market meltdown, worldwide depression, or global thermonuclear war — and then wondering why they aren't believed.
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Those who feared the outcome of this presidency would be global thermonuclear war should take considerable comfort in the prospect that it might amount to something less.
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Donald Trump responded to this speech by disregarding its most substantial elements and instead tweeted cavalierly about the prospect of a thermonuclear exchange with the rogue state.
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The MAD (mutually assured destruction) doctrine has been established ever since the 1950s when the Soviet Union acquired nuclear and thermonuclear weapons and their intercontinental delivery vehicles.
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These tiny atomic bombs became enormously important in the Cold War, because their fiery blasts served as atomic matches to ignite the thermonuclear fuel of hydrogen bombs.
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In his New Year's Day speech he hinted that by nuclear testing could stop now that North Korea has the rudiments of an ICBM and a thermonuclear weapon.
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North Korea said it detonated a thermonuclear device Sunday, in its sixth and most powerful nuclear test to date, and called it a "perfect success" of "unprecedented" strength.
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The SATAN 2, officially called the RS-28 Sarmat (SATAN is its NATO namesake) is a Russian super-heavy intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) equipped with a thermonuclear warhead.
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One alternative to the thermonuclear monarchy is to require the president to have the support of high-ranking members of Congress before he can call for nuclear strikes.
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Analysts noted that the device in the photo that the North released on Sunday — whether real or a mock-up — was shaped like a two-stage thermonuclear device.
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But they cite a range of evidence suggesting that the isolated nation is now working hard to raise the destructive force of its nuclear arsenal with thermonuclear fire.
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More recently, a 2017 U.N. report alleged that North Korea had been seeking to sell Lithium-6 (Li-6), an isotope used in the production of thermonuclear weapons.
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Rogers proceeded to travel the state calling for then-President Obama's impeachment, carrying a sign that featured Obama sporting a Hitler mustache and warning of impending thermonuclear war.
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Another new nuclear warhead, called the 87-1, a redesign of a 40-year-old thermonuclear weapon made for ground-based missiles, would not begin production until 2030.
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American intelligence officials, and their South Korean and Japanese counterparts, are debating whether the next blasts will mark major steps down the road to a true thermonuclear weapon.
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The 2017 nuclear test, which North Korea said was a thermonuclear weapon, appeared to be several times larger than previous blasts, according to monitoring organizations at the time.
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His father, who Mr. Freidman said had been a thermonuclear engineer, got a job as a cabdriver but soon began buying medallions and building a fleet, records show.
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The U.S. and its allies are still trying to determine the nature of that nuclear test, but the publicly available seismic evidence suggests Pyongyang has joined the thermonuclear club.
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Iter (originally, "International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor", but now rebranded as Latin, thus meaning "journey", "path" or "method") will be a giant fusion reactor of a type called a tokamak.
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But so far, there is nothing to suggest that it has yet tested a fusion or thermonuclear weapon despite claims by its leader, Kim Jong Un, that it has.
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The United States, Russia, France, the United Kingdom and China have all tested thermonuclear weapons, and H-bombs now make up the majority of the weapons in their arsenals.
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HP 9845b Series, 1980 Everyone remembers the 9485 thanks to WarGames, the 29 film that stars a young Matthew Broderick as a hacker trying to prevent global thermonuclear war.
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A source familiar with Breitbart's operations told me they would go "thermonuclear" against "globalists" that Bannon and his friends believe are ruining the Trump administration, and by extension, America.
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But that still doesn't address a North Korean arsenal that now includes purported thermonuclear warheads and developmental ICBMs developed during a decadeslong cycle of crises, stalemates and broken promises.
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It exploded over the remote Tunguska region of Siberia with the force of a thermonuclear weapon, flattening trees in an area nearly twice the size of New York City.
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It described the weapon as "a multifunctional thermonuclear nuke with great destructive power which can be detonated even at high altitudes" to launch an electromagnetic pulse, or EMP, attack.
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Donald Trump's master class in victim-blaming Team Trump's handling of the Fields incident is basically a blueprint for turning a minor airspace issue w/China into thermonuclear war.
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In the first year of Donald Trump's administration, while he and Kim Jong-un traded taunts, the North Koreans successfully tested increasingly powerful ballistic missiles and a thermonuclear weapon.
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North Korea claims it is now part of the thermonuclear club, after successfully testing on Sunday a miniaturized hydrogen bomb capable of fitting on an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).
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To note that granting a man of that character the power to incinerate millions of people with thermonuclear weapons is a bad idea is, evidently, a poor electioneering strategy.
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A hydrogen bomb, also known as a thermonuclear bomb, can be hundreds of times more powerful than an atomic bomb, like the one dropped on Hiroshima during World War II. While the Hiroshima explosion produced the equivalent of about 15,000 tons of TNT, the world's first thermonuclear test, conducted by the United States in the Marshall Islands in 1952, yielded the equivalent of 10.4 million tons of TNT, a blast 700 times more powerful.
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He and his fellow researchers noticed the engines were of a design very similar to one used by the Soviets to launch up to 10 thermonuclear warheads at a time.
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The missile, which is capable of carrying up to three thermonuclear devices, was launched over the Pacific Ocean and landed near the Kwajalein Atoll roughly 4,200 miles to the west.
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A thermonuclear warhead small enough to be carried by the Hwasong-14 could easily have a yield of 300 kilotonnes, enough to devastate an area of over 70 square kilometres.
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Indeed, there is good reason to think that the primary purpose of his rudimentary atomic arsenal, and his escalating thermonuclear braggadocio, is ultimately about preserving his tenuous hold on power.
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Bostrom writes: In 1954, the U.S. carried out another nuclear test, the Castle Bravo test, which was planned as a secret experiment with an early lithium-based thermonuclear bomb design.
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One Republican senator who requested anonymity warned that Rubio's penalties are too harsh, warning they could have a "thermonuclear effect" on business that might "blow back" on the U.S. economy.
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The thermonuclear monarchy must end, the AUMF should be repealed, the drone program should only continue with congressional approval, and the NSA surveillance program should be tightly monitored by Congress.
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They can also start laying down rules for reining in the imperial presidency, including the thermonuclear monarchy, so that no future commander-in-chief has the dangerous power Trump possesses.
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In confirming the nature of the North Korea explosion, specialized aircraft will collect air samples that will be analyzed for radioactive particles and gases that are byproducts of thermonuclear blasts.
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They'll go straight to a missile-deliverable nuclear weapon, and then they'll follow that with a thermonuclear weapon, and it will happen so fast it will make our heads spin.
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One of Baksan's biggest claims to fame to date was to catch neutrinos emitted by thermonuclear reactions in the center of the sun in nearly 60 tons of liquid gallium.
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The lesson for states like Iran is simple: Acquire a thermonuclear ICBM that can threaten America and you too can have your Singapore declaration — a fast track to nuclear status.
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A true hydrogen bomb, the fourth stage of development, works by positioning near the triggering atomic bomb a separate capsule that can hold a much larger amount of thermonuclear fuel.
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Known as ITER – an acronym for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor as well as Latin for 'the way' – the collaboration is constructing a magnetic fusion device known as a tokamak.
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A classical nova was the source; these explosions occur when one star in a binary sucks mass from a companion until it lets off a massive thermonuclear explosion on its surface.
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"If this administration walks away from the Iran deal, my suspicion is that Iran will end up looking just like North Korea, right down to the thermonuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missiles."
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Two months and change into his presidency, it is perhaps too easy to say that Donald Trump has distinguished himself from his predecessors mostly if not entirely through his thermonuclear oafishness.
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Those dense parts of the larger cloud collect more and more matter until the pressure and temperature become so great that it kicks off thermonuclear reactions, and a star is born.
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I suppose it doesn't really matter exactly what it can wipe out though because if this terror ever gets launched we'll all be dead anyway in the ensuing global thermonuclear retaliation.
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Meanwhile, the North Korean foreign minister raised the prospect of testing a thermonuclear bomb over the Pacific, and American strategic bombers made a show of force off North Korea's east coast.
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It may be able to demonstrate this, or at least add a thermonuclear element to boost yield, when it conducts a sixth nuclear test, perhaps before the end of the year.
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When the rapid progress of the 2010s stalled out in the 2020s, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea left one milestone on the table: an atmospheric test of a thermonuclear device.
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North Korean state media claimed it detonated a hydrogen bomb, also known as a thermonuclear weapon, which could be fitted atop a long-range missile capable of striking the United States.
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The MOAB has an explosive yield of roughly 11 tons of TNT, meaning it would take more than 90,000 MOABs to equal the destructive power of one B-83 thermonuclear bomb.
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On top of this, on January 214, 211, North Korean authorities claimed to have successfully set off a powerful thermonuclear weapon—a hydrogen bomb—in their fourth atomic test since 22016.
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To watch Ledecky swing a relay race by several seconds in one thermonuclear leg is exciting, but in another way it really isn't; she might as well be riding a Ski-Doo.
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The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project's seven partners - Europe, United States, China, India, Japan, Russia and South Korea - launched it 10 years ago with a cost estimated at 5 billion euros.
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Some, like the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, a coalition of governments that are trying to make fusion viable, use the tokamak, which employs magnets to keep plasma from escaping and cooling off.
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"Now that thermonuclear [weaponry] is back on the table, we're back to people saying, 'We can't deal with this,'" Cham Dallas, a public health researcher at the University of Georgia, told Nature.
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Two years later, the Castle Bravo test set off the largest thermonuclear device ever detonated by the US. The amount of cesium-137 in wines skyrocketed after those events, the report shows.
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China, long Mr. Trump's favored example of a supposedly nefarious trading power, is a critical piece of efforts to prevent thermonuclear hostilities with North Korea, tempering the urge for confrontation with Beijing.
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Harvard health economist Eric Feigl-Ding called the 3.8 value "thermonuclear pandemic level bad" in a tweet that triggered thousands of panicked shares on the platform, followed by widespread criticism from scientists.
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The test followed North Korea saying on Sunday that it had developed a more advanced thermonuclear weapon of "great destructive power," which it would load onto an intercontinental ballistic missile, Reuters reported.
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But if you can't manage, Australians don't really care if you eat it with cutlery, especially when the filling is thermonuclear hot, or you're eating it as part of a pie floater.
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This is the idea, backed by numerous scientific studies, that any large scale detonation of nuclear weapons as might happen in a thermonuclear war between superpowers would cause radical changes to climate.
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The regime claimed that test, too, was of a two-stage device (also known as a thermonuclear or hydrogen bomb), in which an initial nuclear explosion is used to amplify a second one.
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Massive efforts like the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) have been joined by smaller startups, like Tri Alpha in the US and Tokamak Energy in the UK, in aiming to produce workable solutions.
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He also said the nuclear test detonated a hydrogen bomb, although the United States and South Korea have doubted the claim because it yielded an explosion too small to be a thermonuclear bomb.
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Since 2015, Musk has posited the idea that launching thermonuclear weapons above the ice caps at Mars' poles could warm the planet's atmosphere, with the eventual aim of making it habitable for humans.
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North Korea can openly broadcast its development of nuclear weapons with the understanding that the demonstration of a thermonuclear device does not substantially enable South Korea to protect against an attack on Seoul.
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Something's wrong: I've achieved nothing, I'm the most unpopular president in modern history, I've deepened America's racial divide, we are on the brink of thermonuclear conflict — it's gotta be the pink tie, right?
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There was the Great Smog of 5003 and the Soviet Union's testing of a thermonuclear weapon in Season 1, and the Suez Crisis and the Duke of Windsor's Nazi associations in season 2.
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The four vapour suppression tanks, each weighing about 100 tonnes and measuring eight by nine metres, were delivered to the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) site in Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, French authorities said.
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Pyongyang's latest provocation comes less than two weeks after North Korea claims it successfully tested a thermonuclear device, which experts say is seven times stronger than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 2250.
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He became the Soviet Union&aposs most important scientist, and at the same time the shock of his own thermonuclear creation led him to work for causes connected to world peace and human rights.
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Seven partners - Europe, the United States, China, India, Japan, Russia and South Korea - launched the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) 10 years ago but the project has experienced years of delays and budget overruns.
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It will not happen tomorrow or even in 10 years, but Kim should be a lot more worried about his regime collapsing of its own weight than we should be about his thermonuclear swagger.
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The latest version of the B61 thermonuclear gravity bomb, which has origins as far back as the 235s, is engineered as a low-to-medium yield strategic and tactical nuclear weapon, according to nuclearweaponsarchive.
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Its heat shield and protective gear safeguard the onboard suite of instruments, which will study the solar wind and the Sun's magnetic fields, along with other oddities surrounding the giant thermonuclear reactor we orbit.
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In 1983, a young Matthew Broderick played a young hacker named David Lightman who accidentally discovers a military supercomputer and gets it to play "Global Thermonuclear War" with him in the movie 'War Games.
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That means the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) in France won't see its first test until 2025 and full fusion reactions until at least 2035, according to documents leaked to French newspaper Les Echos.
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Sometimes the black hole spends eons inhaling matter as fast as physically possible, converting that matter into energy in a long-lasting cataclysm, each instant the equivalent of billions of thermonuclear weapons detonating simultaneously.
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With an historic 6.3-magnitude jolt this past Sunday, North Korea announced to the world that its nuclear arms program had graduated from relatively rudimentary atomic devices to a new and advanced thermonuclear phase.
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With more and more hydrogen, the pressure builds until it sets off a thermonuclear explosion, a burst of light known as a nova that is up a million times as bright as the sun.
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The small size makes thermonuclear warheads compact and lightweight enough to fit atop long-range missiles — it is one of the technologies that North Korea has been seeking, and may have already figured out.
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A next logical step would be for the North to turn the material it was advertising online, lithium 6, into a more complex kind of thermonuclear fuel arrangement for a much more powerful bomb.
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The potential nuclear test followed North Korea saying on Sunday that it had developed a more advanced thermonuclear weapon of "great destructive power," which it would load onto an intercontinental ballistic missile, Reuters reported.
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It is an ugly place to be, and Harvey didn't help his case by avoiding reporters after he served up some thermonuclear bombs in a 7-4 loss to the Washington Nationals on Tuesday.
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A classical nova occurs when a white dwarf star gains matter from its secondary star over a period of time, causing a thermonuclear reaction on the surface that eventually erupts in a single visible outburst.
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United Nations (CNN)Only at a North Korean press conference at the United Nations, can you hear a diplomat say he hoped journalists had a good holiday weekend and then warn of possible thermonuclear war.
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For example, if Pyongyang were to target New York City's population centers, it wouldn't matter whether the missile hit Manhattan or the waters near Staten Island: a thermonuclear weapon would obliterate the city either way.
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Why it matters, as Axios' Jonathan Swan reported earlier, Bannon has told associates Breitbart is his "killing machine" and that he's ready to go "thermonuclear" with the "globalists" upon his exit from the White House.
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"Read more: Trump is picking a risky fight with Democrats over ObamacareConservative economist Douglas Holtz-Eakin echoed that, telling Bloomberg News that undoing the law would cause "a thermonuclear meltdown on the health policy front.
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Morrison, who earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Minnesota and a law degree from George Washington University, keeps nuclear strategist Herman Kahn's seminal volume on thermonuclear warfare on a table in his office.
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The Cavs even have their own (super-small sample size) lineup of death, centered on a Love-Channing Frye frontcourt duo, that put up a thermonuclear 132 points per 100 possessions against the Atlanta Hawks.
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And not only has the utopian imagination been stung by its own failures, it has also had to face up to the two fundamental dystopias of our time: those of ecological collapse and thermonuclear warfare.
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If you were to binge-watch the whole thing back-to-back, with breaks for sleep, you'd see it's actually picking up steam, barreling towards the medieval equivalent of global thermonuclear war on all fronts.
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The data confirmed that most of the light from the supernova was caused by the decay of radioactive cobalt produced as the star shrank catastrophically and then rebounded even more catastrophically in a thermonuclear fury.
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But even if the North Koreans decided to start a game of global thermonuclear war, the US deployment of THAAD has precious little bearing on Pyongyang's potential use of the Unha-3 as an ICBM.
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Drop a bomb In 2015, speaking with "Late Show" host Stephen Colbert, Musk said that terraforming Mars could be done by dropping thermonuclear bombs on the poles or releasing greenhouse gases to warm up the planet.
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A seventh nuclear test in January had confirmed that the warhead carried by the missile would in time be a thermonuclear one with the power to destroy all life within an area of 70 square kilometres.
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Nuclear victory looks like winning the Cold War with the disintegration of the Warsaw Pact and the collapse of the USSR without a thermonuclear World War III, defeating the most powerful totalitarian empire in history—peacefully.
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If there wasn't a thermonuclear trigger lurking in the background, the bombast might be easier to shrug off with the school yard adage: "Sticks and stone may break my bones, but names will never hurt me".
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Unlike the MIT project, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) team does not plan to generate electricity, saying this will be further in the future, and is being supported by governments rather than the private sector.
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On March 1, 1954, the US military set off the "Shrimp" thermonuclear device on a platform in the Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands (about 2,300 miles southeast of Japan and 2,700 miles southwest of Hawaii).
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Do we have any reasons to doubt that they have any of the capabilities they now claim to have—namely a staged, thermonuclear warhead small enough to fit on an ICBM capable of hitting the US?
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In the 1950s, astronomers with radio telescopes discovered that pearly, seemingly peaceful galaxies were spewing radio energy from their cores — far more energy than would be produced by the ordinary thermonuclear engines that make stars shine.
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David Albright, president of the Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security, said he doubted the device was real, but he said there was strong evidence that the North had been working on thermonuclear weapons.
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Seoul has hardened its stance against Pyongyang after its torrent of weapons tests, the latest a detonation Sunday of what North Korea said was a thermonuclear weapon built for missiles capable of reaching the U.S. mainland.
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The last time humanity was this close to oblivion in the Doomsday Clock's 70-year history was in 1953 when both the US and the Soviet Union tested thermonuclear weapons within nine months of each other.
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Either way, says Mark Fitzpatrick of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), the North Koreans will have learned a lot from the latest test and will probably have a true thermonuclear capability sooner rather than later.
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The United States did not develop its first thermonuclear weapons — commonly known as hydrogen bombs — until 1952, seven years after the first and only use of nuclear weapons in wartime, the weapons dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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" North Korea's UN ambassador on Monday said US actions had "created a dangerous situation in which thermonuclear war may break out at any moment on the peninsula and poses a serious threat to world peace and security.
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In a hydrogen (thermonuclear) bomb, "heavy" isotopes of hydrogen are forced together to release a much bigger punch -- hundreds or even thousands of times more powerful than the only nuclear weapons that have been used in warfare.
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Stars and supernovas could manufacture the elements up to iron or so, according to classic papers in the 1950s but heavier elements required a different thermonuclear chemistry called r-process and lots of free neutrons floating around.
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Experts found evidence that it had modified a reactor to make tritium, built a plant that could gather up the radioactive gas, and produced a thermonuclear fuel ingredient in such abundance that it was selling it online.
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More likely, experts said, Mr. Kim's scientists had created a "boosted" atomic bomb in which a tiny bit of thermonuclear fuel resulted in a slightly higher explosive yield but fell well short of a true hydrogen bomb.
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This may have been the first time any nation that houses U.S. nuclear weapons—there are an estimated 50 thermonuclear air-drop warheads at Incirlik Air Force Base in Turkey—targeted U.S. troops with its own army.
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Kim declared his nuclear force was complete after the torrent of weapons tests in 2017, including the detonation of a purported thermonuclear weapon and three test-flights of intercontinental ballistic missiles potentially capable of reaching the U.S. mainland.
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The Wizards floor general was named Eastern Conference Player of the Week on Monday, but even then he had to contend with Harden, who won the award in the West behind another week of thermonuclear triple-double dominance.
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Global thermonuclear war would render Earth uninhabitable; though North Korea is estimated to have about 10 warheads, even a regional war would be catastrophic, not just for the people killed initially but on our world as a whole.
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The country's state-run media announced the test of the "two stage thermonuclear weapon," saying that it was a "complete success," and has gone on to report that the bomb can be loaded onto an intercontinental ballistic missile.
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A thermonuclear bomb (also known as a hydrogen bomb) is a more advanced and powerful design, where a fission bomb ignites a second stage of fissionable material to induce a fusion reaction, resulting in a much larger explosion.
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David Albright, a former U.N. weapons inspector, called the latest nuclear test "largely a mystery" and surmised that North Korea didn't test a standard two-stage hydrogen bomb, in which an atomic blast sets off a thermonuclear explosion.
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After all, if priority level four is already for "Oh my God, we're being shot at!" and priority level five is for starting a global thermonuclear war, it's hard to imagine what priority level six might be for.
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His biggest infrastructure project, the Interstate System of highways, meshed with the booming auto economy and also with a Cold War defense strategy that called for state-of-the art evacuation routes in the event of thermonuclear attack.
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" Days after those words were published, North Korea escalated the nuclear crisis by launching a missile over Japan and testing a thermonuclear H-Bomb warhead that, according to North Korea, is designed for a "super powerful EMP attack.
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But little is known about the bomb, which was detonated at its underground Punggye-ri test site, and U.S. officials stressed more information was needed to verify North Korea's claims that it had achieved two-stage thermonuclear bomb capabilities.
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Boosting is key to miniaturizing a thermonuclear weapon, and Pyongyang must master miniaturization in order to build a warhead small enough to fit atop a ballistic missile that can reach the United States or other distant targets, experts said.
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The closest was two minutes, in 1953, as America pursued a hydrogen bomb and tested its first thermonuclear device, and the Soviets tested their own H-bomb nine months later—a time we're now, apparently, just 30 seconds behind.
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That would be quite low for a two-stage thermonuclear device of the kind North Korea would like the outside world to believe it has developed, but not too powerful for it to have been a boosted fission device.
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The key question is not whether North Korea's technical acumen has advanced to the stage of developing a two-stage thermonuclear bomb, but whether it is capable of creating a nuclear warhead that could be delivered by ballistic missile.
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Out there, drifting among the other galaxies of the Local Group, far from the crowded circumstances of its birth, the star called S5-HVS1 will exhaust its thermonuclear fuel in about 2 billion years, blow up and die, alone.
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The last time the U.S. pursued such a strategy was in the 1980s when both the U.S. and the Soviet Union poured hundreds of nuclear weapons into Europe, raising fears of a global thermonuclear war and igniting massive protests.
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Pyongyang's bellicose statements threatening thermonuclear war, the display of new missiles at a parade this past weekend and the failed test on Sunday of a missile able to reach targets in Northeast Asia could be North Korea's opening moves.
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Game by game and play by play, Westbrook points his thermonuclear appetite towards various discrete and practical directions—getting past a defender, say, or throwing down a dunk with the unforgiving fury of six thousand scorching suns—and goes.
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But last year North Korea tested an apparent thermonuclear bomb with a surprisingly large estimated blast size of 250 kilotons, a "city buster" much bigger than past test blasts and nearly the size of current US intercontinental ballistic missile warheads.
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Although a pure fusion bomb was never created, fusion energy was integrated into hybrid fission-fusion thermonuclear weapons—colloquially known as hydrogen bombs—which were far more powerful than the fission based predecessors that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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In Israel, Pence's last stop, the existential issue remains Iran's nuclear-weapons threat, complicated by North Korea's rapid progress toward achieving a delivery capability for thermonuclear warheads that would almost certainly be available to the ayatollahs for the right price.
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In a Monday night court filing, McKinsey labeled Alix's May 9 lawsuit was "the litigation equivalent of a thermonuclear device," bereft of support for its "stark allegations of fraud" or to show any scheme to harm Alix's rival firm, AlixPartners.
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" He turned the question back on Reagan: "If his power includes something as monstrously undemocratic as the ability to order a thermonuclear war, I ask you, who then is more of a dictator, the president of the United States or I?
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In a Monday night court filing, McKinsey labeled Alix's May 9 lawsuit "the litigation equivalent of a thermonuclear device," bereft of support for its "stark allegations of fraud" or to show any scheme to harm the firm he founded, AlixPartners.
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Over the years, some nuclear experts have said that even if North Korea has not developed a true thermonuclear, or hydrogen, bomb, it may have increased the yield of a more traditional nuclear device by using tritium, a common enhancement technique.
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Kahn, who weighed 300 pounds and suffered from narcolepsy, had gained renown with his book On Thermonuclear War, in which he considered every facet of nuclear disaster: how to avoid it, how to win, and how to rebuild civilization afterward.
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In 1956, two years after the United States' largest thermonuclear detonation, at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, President Dwight Eisenhower's National Security Council ordered a classified study of the effects of the threat of nuclear annihilation on American attitudes.
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The larger circle showed the range of a 2212 megaton two-stage thermonuclear bomb, and the smaller circle showed the range of a 2556 kiloton bomb comparable in strength to the bomb dropped on Hiroshima — not the other way around.
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When Bloch's team pitched M-G-M, they had in mind a project tied to the original film, which is about a teen-age hacker (Matthew Broderick) who breaks into a military server and runs a program called Global Thermonuclear War.
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The return in recent weeks of hostile talk amid the North's threats of "bigger catastrophic consequences" as Kim's manipulative year-end deadline for U.S. concessions approaches, has many wondering what may come next: an ICBM launch, or another thermonuclear test?
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It is part of the Long-Range Strike Bomber program (LRS-B) and projected to be a long-range, stealth strategic bomber for the United States Air Force capable of delivering conventional and thermonuclear weapons for the next few decades.
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Among the most alarming released by WikiLeaks, the cables described a new path the North was taking to reach its long-range goal, based on a missile designed by the Soviets decades ago for their submarines that carried thermonuclear warheads.
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This is the closest to midnight that the clock has been since 1953, when it was moved to two minutes to midnight after United States and the Soviet Union tested their first thermonuclear weapons within 10 months of each other.
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On the other hand, if it turns out to have been a two-stage device, in which an initial blast is used to amplify the main detonation, then it probably was a small thermonuclear bomb, which could be miniaturised into a compact warhead.
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Hydrogen bombs, also known as thermonuclear weapons, work in two stages: the first detonates a fission bomb to produce energy in sufficient quantities that, when it is then focused on light nuclei, a plasma is created that enables fusion reactions to take place.
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The Z machine began as a series of particle beam accelerators in the 1970s, its creation by the government motivated by fears about an energy crisis as well as a need to study fusion reactions in thermonuclear weapons in a lab setting.
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At any moment—maybe at school, maybe during Saturday morning cartoons—air-raid sirens and TV test patterns could sound, followed by a blinding flash and, if you survived that, a thermonuclear mushroom big as the sky and hot as the sun.
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But while Mr. Trump's thermonuclear politics may rally both his base and Democrats who slumbered in 2016, it is the paralyzing disorder and anxiety his bilious behavior creates that is a distressing turnoff to voters at the margins who will make the difference.
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It's been months since Pyongyang has carried out a missile test, and there are some who believe the regime will soon make good on its threat to follow up its alleged H-bomb test last year with a thermonuclear test in the atmosphere.
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ITER, short for International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (and pronounced EAT-er), is being built to test a long-held dream: that nuclear fusion, the atomic reaction that takes place in the sun and in hydrogen bombs, can be controlled to generate power.
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The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project is a cooperation between Europe, the United States, China, India, Japan, Russia and South Korea to build a prototype fusion reactor to generate electricity in a process similar to the nuclear fusion that powers the sun.
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The burden that's currently stretching the Pentagon to the breaking point is that of a cowardly commander in chief who chooses to unleash cruel discriminatory policies via tweet, all while making those under him worry that we could be on the brink of thermonuclear war.
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" Other state media claimed that dictator Kim Jong-un had personally overseen the test and described the bomb as "a multi-functional thermonuclear nuke with great destructive power which can be detonated even at high altitudes for super-powerful EMP attack according to strategic goals.
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That relatively comforting assessment was blown apart in July when North Korea successfully tested two missiles with the range to hit cities in the continental United States, and, in September, when it conducted an underground explosion of what appears to have been a thermonuclear device.
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Hours later, North Korea issued an announcement declaring it had successfully tested a hydrogen bomb, otherwise known as a thermonuclear bomb — a nuclear weapon technology that is a significant step up from the less powerful atomic bombs that it has used in three previous tests.
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" North Korea's UN deputy representative, Kim In Ryong, responded, warning that the US actions and rhetoric have "created a dangerous situation in which thermonuclear war may break out at any moment on the peninsula and poses a serious threat to world peace and security.
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When Kim In-ryong, a representative of North Korea's radical regime, warns that Trump and his tweets of provocation are creating "a dangerous situation in which a thermonuclear war may break out at any moment," does one man sound more immediately rational than the other?
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Ever since Donald Trump was elected, the mandarins and chatterers of the capital have been alarmed that we would get to this precipice of blustery, threatening exchanges between Trump and Kim Jong-un about thermonuclear annihilation, and that when we did, it would be parlous.
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Should the North conduct its sixth nuclear test, it would move closer to having a hydrogen bomb, or a two-stage thermonuclear weapon, Mr. Hecker said, with up to a thousand times more power than the Hiroshima-style weapons Mr. Kim has detonated so far.
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"There is need for a nationwide understanding of what each level of government, each private organization and each citizen can do to bring about and maintain the best attainable protection for the civilian population against the major effects of a thermonuclear attack," the president said.
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One early effort—"Program for Computing Probabilities of Fallout From a Large-Scale Thermonuclear Attack"—took into account explosive yield, burst points, time of detonation, mean wind velocity, and the like to predict where the fallout would land in the case of an attack.
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Given that North Korea itself shows no inclination to begin denuclearisation talks with America and will probably consider a testing freeze only once it has a demonstrable capability to threaten mainland America with thermonuclear attack, it might seem reasonable to concede that Mr Trump had a point.
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The missile exploded in its underground silo, throwing aloft a thermonuclear warhead with a destructive potential greater than all the bombs dropped in World War II. Its detonation would have leveled much of Arkansas and sent clouds of deadly radioactivity raining down on the East Coast.
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Though the most famous episode of this era remains the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, when John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev essentially engaged in a global thermonuclear standoff, that was far from the only time the United States and Russia came close to nuclear catastrophe.
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"They have to assume the worst, even if it is 'only one or two missiles' since the fully loaded SLBMs can carry multiple thermonuclear warheads," he said, adding that the Russians have made clear they would not wait for an incoming missile to hit before retaliating.
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Perhaps as a means of reasserting control, Kim Jong Un has become extremely belligerent, shutting down all links with South Korea and threatening thermonuclear war against his neighbor and the US. His father and grandfather used to make these threats all the time without following through.
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" Trygve Olson, who also advised Mr. Paul's campaign, said, "Conventional wisdom would say Trump should end up paying a high price for his thermonuclear gambit on the debate stage, his attack on President Bush and his positions that are totally incongruent with the vast majority of conservative voters.
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In recent weeks, Mr. Kim, believed to be in his early 30s and determined to accelerate the nuclear weapons program that his grandfather and his father promoted to give the broken country leverage and influence, boasted that North Korea had finally developed the technology to build a thermonuclear weapon.
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Norsar said that based on the seismic readings, the event was equivalent to less than 10,000 tons of TNT, smaller than those of the atomic bombs used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and far less than thermonuclear weapons that typically are as potent as millions of tons of TNT.
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"The H-bomb, the explosive power of which is adjustable from tens kiloton to hundreds kiloton, is a multi-functional thermonuclear nuke with great destructive power which can be detonated even at high altitudes for super-powerful EMP (electromagnetic pulse) attack according to strategic goals," KCNA reported in English.
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According to Pyongyang: The H-Bomb, the explosive power of which is adjustable from tens of kilotons to hundreds of kilotons, is a multi-functional thermonuclear weapon with great destructive power which can be detonated even at high altitudes for super-powerful EMP attack according to strategic goals.
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The fusing of hydrogen atoms requires incredible heat and pressure, and for decades fusion research has been the exclusive province of big science, like ITER, a 23-nation thermonuclear project in the south of France that covers 113 acres and is expected to ultimately cost more than $211 billion.
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Now that North Korea is recognized by the intelligence community and policymakers alike as a clear and present danger to the U.S. mainland—armed with ICBMs capable of blasting American cities with atomic warheads, possibly with much more powerful thermonuclear warheads in 6-18 months—what can we do?
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Even if the DPRK has not fully worked out the kinks of their programs, they have achieved the foundations of long-range ballistic missile technology (though with poor accuracy), domestic fuel production, a nuclear capability with the goal of achieving thermonuclear proficiency, and potentially the means of warhead miniaturization.
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Assuming we've pulled our sample into the lab under the conditions that it existed in while it was part of the Sun, it would immediately lose the pressure that holds the plasma together, and the resultant thermonuclear explosion would blow up our lab, our city, and everyone in it—including you.
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North Korea announced it detonated a thermonuclear device Sunday in its sixth and most powerful nuclear test to date, a big step toward its goal of developing nuclear weapons capable of striking anywhere in the U.S. The North called it a "perfect success" while its neighbors condemned the blast immediately.
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A month later, North Korea went on to conduct its fourth nuclear test, which marked the start of a torrid run in weapons tests that peaked in 2017, when the country detonated a purported thermonuclear warhead and flight-tested three developmental intercontinental ballistic missiles designed to strike the U.S. mainland.
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But for all the repeated viewings, I did not recall many of Short Circuit's more horrible aspects, such as Fisher Stevens browning up to mug an East Indian accent and deliver terrible jokes, the implication that killer drones were around the corner and the lazy, fatalistic attitude toward thermonuclear Armageddon.
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Writing about these works in the catalogue, the artist Michelle Grabner, who teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, notes that Von Bruenchenhein "struggled to understand the destructive forces of thermonuclear weaponry (and the normalizing of doomsday scenarios in everyday life)" in the post-World War II period.
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A U.S. official who studies North Korea's military and politics said it was too early to determine if a test supported the North's claim that it has succeeded in developing a thermonuclear weapon, "much less one that could be mounted on an ICBM and re-enter Earth's atmosphere without burning up".
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To achieve this, engineers from Spanish company CASA Espacio are applying the engineering tech that they've used to build components for satellites, as well as rockets like the Ariane 5, Vega, and Soyuz, to the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor—the world's largest nuclear fusion reactor currently being built in France.
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In 1942, it occurred to Edward Teller, one of the Manhattan scientists, that a nuclear explosion would create a temperature unprecedented in Earth's history, producing conditions similar to those in the center of the sun, and that this could conceivably trigger a self-sustaining thermonuclear reaction in the surrounding air or water.
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For comparison, that's the same setting as in 2125 after the United States and Soviet Union first tested thermonuclear weapons, which are about 2700,2140 times as destructive as the atomic bombs the United States dropped on Japan during World War II. This year, the board moved the clock another 240 seconds closer.
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It listed several grim developments: North Korea had made rapid progress in developing a thermonuclear weapon capable of reaching the United States; relations between the United States and Russia had deteriorated, with no high-level arms-control negotiations; and nations around the world were moving to modernize and enhance their nuclear arsenals.
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As the question of how the international community should respond remained unanswered, White House officials, eager to undercut whatever propaganda value the North saw in claiming its first success in detonating a thermonuclear device, said that initial data from its monitoring stations in Asia were "not consistent" with a test of a hydrogen bomb.
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The shift away from planning for small nuclear devices that could be deployed by terrorists toward thermonuclear blasts arranged by "state actors" was discussed on Thursday at a two-day National Academies of Sciences workshop for public health and emergency response officials held at its headquarters across the street from the US State Department.
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In recent weeks, the North's aggressive young leader, Kim Jong-un, has boasted that the country has finally developed the technology to build a thermonuclear weapon — far more powerful than the low-yield devices tested first in 2006, then in different configurations months after President Obama took office in 2009 and again in 2013.
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And, if I'm at the park or a football game, or in an open-carry college seminar on nineteenth-century American poetry, I want to make sure I have my ICBM on me, just in case some nut job's packing thermonuclear heat and takes issue with my stance on Emily Dickinson's use of slant rhyme.
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Eletrobras said on Thursday it has been unable to publish the document due to uncompleted investigations into alleged corruption in the massive 11.2-gigawatt Belo Monte hydroelectric project in the Amazon and the Angra 3 thermonuclear plant in Rio de Janeiro state, which prevent it from knowing the eventual impact on its financial results.
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The tendency of able defenders like Patrick Beverley and Corey Brewer to gamble, the thermonuclear brainfarts from less able defenders like Harden and Ty Lawson, the physical incapability of Dwight Howard to cover the ground he used to—it adds up to a general discontinuity that creates fissures in their defense in the worst possible places.
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This is entirely plausible, but it's also reasonable to connect the spycraft to the larger climate of the '64 election, in which the entire political establishment treated Goldwater as a unique threat to the norms of postwar politics, a dangerous man likely to bring fascism to America or to lead the United States into thermonuclear war.
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"I can't imagine they're not working on true thermonuclear weapons," said Siegfried S. Hecker, a Stanford professor who from 1986 to 1997 directed the Los Alamos weapons laboratory in New Mexico, the birthplace of the atom bomb, and whom the North Koreans in seeking recognition as a nuclear power have repeatedly let into their atomic facilities.
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But it was also "High Noon," the doomsday thermonuclear clock ticking loudly even as a dangerous storm was brewing abroad: anti-American governments in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, ungrateful semi-socialist regimes in Europe living under the protection of our troops and dollars, Soviet leaps in missile and aerospace technology, and a shooting war in Korea.
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Like any large hosting company, OVH regularly saw small-scale DDoS attacks—it noted later that it normally faces 1,200 a day—but the Mirai attack was unlike anything anyone on the internet had ever seen, the first thermonuclear bomb of the DDoS world, topping out at 1.1 terabits per second as more than 145,73 infected devices bombarded OVH with unwanted traffic.
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What's new: "North Korea announced it detonated a thermonuclear device Sunday in its sixth and most powerful nuclear test to date, a big step toward its goal of developing nuclear weapons capable of striking anywhere in the U.S.," per AP: South Korea's weather agency said the artificial earthquake it caused was five to six times stronger than tremors generated by its previous tests.
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Unsurprisingly the rumble was met with anguish elsewhere, although most agreed that the North's claim of a hydrogen bomb—far more powerful and much more difficult to build than the atomic sort—was far-fetched: both the estimated explosion yield (six kilotons) and the magnitude of the earthquake that followed the blast (5.1) were much too small for a thermonuclear weapon.
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The elder Kim was able to pocket billions of dollars in aid from South Korea, the United States, Japan and China by playing this game of provocations and post-provocation peace ploys, while the younger Kim, after going on a bluster-barrage last year with unprecedented ICBM tests and a thermonuclear test, has undergone in recent weeks a dramatic image makeover.
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This kind of activism inevitably moves out of the news cycle when the possibility of thermonuclear war becomes a more pressing concern, when global warming becomes a more pressing concern, when desperate refugees in mortal danger become a more pressing concern, when women's ability to make decisions about their own bodies becomes a more pressing concern, when millions of uninsured Americans become a more pressing concern.
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In this context, there are two courses of action held for consideration: suspending these large-scale joint American-South Korean military war-game exercises throughout the peninsula, which have only acted as catalytic threats to North Korea's national interests and sphere of influence, and sending Bill Richardson and Colin Powell to Pyongyang to negotiate with Kim a stand-down arrangement involving his thermonuclear program.
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The shape shows a marked difference from pictures of the ball-shaped device North Korea released in March last year, and appears to indicate the appearance of a two-stage thermonuclear weapon, or a hydrogen bomb, said Lee Choon-geun, senior research fellow at state-run Science and Technology Policy Institute KCNA said North Korea "recently succeeded" in making a more advanced hydrogen bomb.
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Trump's speech in September at the United Nations drew a stark rebuttal from the North Korean foreign minister, including the threat to conduct the first above ground test of a thermonuclear device in decades, and has had the effect of shutting down effective dialogue channels between Washington and Pyongyang at a moment when crisis communication is necessary to reduce growing risks of misunderstanding and miscalculation on both sides.
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Just to put our arsenal in perspective, this represents the equivalent of 1.4 billion tons of TNT that could be dropped on one country, which dwarfs the 3.4 million tons dropped by all of the allies during the entire course of World War II. While I am not minimizing the damage that one or a handful of thermonuclear warheads could do to the United States or its allies, North Korea faces the prospect of literal obliteration if it uses its rudimentary capability.
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