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Thermonuclear
Thermonuclear meaning
Of, or relating to the fusion of atomic nuclei at high temperatures. | Of, or relating to the use of atomic weapons based on such fusion, especially as distinguished from those based on fission.
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Amid an antisemitism storm around X, the social media platform’s owner, Elon Musk, threatened to file a “thermonuclear lawsuit” against non-profit watchdog Media Matters and others.
Mr Musk said on Saturday that X would file a "thermonuclear lawsuit" against Media Matters "the split second court opens on Monday".
Suddenly, people understood the threat environment to include doomsday scenarios based on solid science: the heat death of the universeglobal thermonuclear fallout.
Sure enough, when director Christopher Nolan asked him to emulate the sound of the world’s first thermonuclear device for “Oppenheimer,” King had his epic-scaled 2013 Chelyabinsk asteroidreference close at hand.
Yudkowsky is so worried about the AGI apocalypse that he claims we should be willing to risk an all-out thermonuclear war that kills nearly everyone on Earth to prevent AGI from being built in the near future.
Numerous international experts believe that the results of the thermonuclear test were highly inflated and doubt that the device successfully ignited the second fusion stage of the explosion.
The country detonated its first nuclear device in 1957, and its first thermonuclear device in 1964.
As foreshadowed last week, the stoush between Melbourne businessman and correspondence enthusiast and the company he once chaired, BidEnergy, has gone thermonuclear.
Categorisations range from existential – such as that from thermonuclear war with the Soviet Union or global warming – to challenging – such as terrorism – to those of a merely nuisance variety.
Kim had extended the offer of talks only after declaring in January that his regime had successfully developed a credible deterrent, involving thermonuclear warheads and ballistic missiles to carry them.
On November 3, 2017, North Korea announced that it had successfully tested a thermonuclear hydrogen bomb.
Researchers looked only into the 'Nuclear Winter' effect of a thermonuclear explosion and how this would affect the nation that is attacked in the first place.
The first thermonuclear weapon was tested by the US in 1952.
The last time the clock was set this close to midnight was in 1953, after America and the Soviet Union both tested powerful thermonuclear weapons.
Type Ia supernovae are thought to originate from the thermonuclear explosion of a white dwarf star, the dead core left over by a Sun-like star after it exhausts its nuclear fuel.
Welcome home after your weeklong holiday in Death Valley, Quebec, during the hottest, longest stretch of thermonuclear heat since 1946.
A thermonuclear weapon weighing little more than convert can produce an explosive force comparable to the detonation of more than convert.
Confinement The key problem in achieving thermonuclear fusion is how to confine the hot plasma.
Examples include the quantum gates, and the lattice vibrations and background thermonuclear spin of the physical system used to implement the qubits.
He publicly sounded the alarm against the possible development of salted thermonuclear bombs, a new kind of nuclear weapon that might annihilate mankind.