How to Use thermonuclear in a Sentence

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• Hydrogen bombs are thermonuclear weapons.
• Pandemics have become a threat on the scale of thermonuclear war.
  — Mark Olshaker, Fortune, 20 Apr. 2020
• But a full draft opinion has never leaked to the press in the modern history of the court, and the reaction inside the marble palace will likely be thermonuclear.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 3 May 2022
• This thermonuclear reaction creates vast amounts of light and heat, allowing the star to shine.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2023
• Anything with a higher yield has to be either a boosted or a thermonuclear device.
  — Andrew Karam, Popular Mechanics, 7 Jan. 2016
• The first full-scale demonstration of such a thermonuclear weapon was conducted in 1952 in the Ivy Mike test, just seven years after the first atomic bomb test of the Manhattan Project.
  — OregonLive.com, 9 Aug. 2017
• Many are the remains of massive stars that collapsed after burning through their thermonuclear trust funds.
  — Dennis Overbye, New York Times, 6 May 2020
• 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.
  — Choe Sang-Hun and David E. Sanger, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2017
• In order to comply, the Navy was forced to take four Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines and their thermonuclear warheads out of service.
  — Popular Mechanics, 28 Apr. 2023
• Some of us have to get positive, find some good and forget there’s a decent chance a global thermonuclear war may start any second over a Twitter insult.
  — Tony Hicks, The Mercury News, 17 Feb. 2017
• Some scientists argue that the age of humans — also known as the Anthropocene era — began in 1952, when the U.S. tested its first thermonuclear bomb.
  — Mansee Khurana, NPR, 3 Apr. 2024
• An article on Friday about the Doomsday clock misstated the timing of the first thermonuclear weapons tests by the Americans and the Soviets.
  — New York Times, 29 Jan. 2018
• Hydrogen bomb: Also called a thermonuclear weapon, this type of bomb is much more powerful than an atomic bomb.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 7 Feb. 2018
• But his personal trainer offered a few choice words to the internet, not so much burning that bridge as dropping a thermonuclear warhead on it.
  — Des Bieler, chicagotribune.com, 23 June 2017
• The chemistry is thermonuclear and the desire is mutual, Libra.
  — Colin Bedell, Cosmopolitan, 11 Mar. 2018
• The thermonuclear weapon uses fusion to create a far more powerful blast than an atomic bomb, according to The Atlantic.
  — Mirren Gidda, Newsweek, 6 Jan. 2016
• Five billion years hence, our sun, too, will exhaust its thermonuclear fuel supply.
  — Alan Hirshfeld, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2018
• That a global audience from Washington to Pyongyang and beyond was agape at such a once inconceivable tete-a-tete in the wake of threats of thermonuclear war and scathing personal insults, is not in doubt.
  — Washington Post, 12 June 2018
• This 20-meter rocket, designed to carry thermonuclear weapons, served as a template for the original Delta rockets.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 17 Sep. 2018
• The country is lobbing bombs like water balloons, and Trump is saber-rattling in return as if global thermonuclear war is not a possibility and this is the second level of a TV game show.
  — Rochelle Riley, Detroit Free Press, 3 Sep. 2017
• Detonate a thermonuclear weapon to blast a crack several hundred meters deep in Earth’s surface.
  — Tim Folger, Discover Magazine, 13 July 2014
• Only four years later, the first thermonuclear weapon, Ivy Mike, was detonated, adding a new layer to the nuclear discussion.
  — Christian Schneider, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
• Also, once the country built atomic bombs, followed by more powerful thermonuclear weapons and the means to deliver them, the danger of their use would only increase, including to U.S. allies.
  — Jon Talton, The Seattle Times, 25 Aug. 2017
• The nova, a giant thermonuclear explosion, lingered as a bright spot between two stars in the constellation Wei—a part of Scorpius—for 14 days before vanishing.
  — Richard A. Lovett, Science | AAAS, 30 Aug. 2017
• The reentry vehicle did not carry a live thermonuclear warhead.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 5 Feb. 2020
• That may be a return to normal: The paranoid atmosphere of 2017 is really not so different from the one at the end of the Cold War, when we elementary-school students were being taught to duck under our desks in the event of thermonuclear warfare.
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 11 Sep. 2017
• However, the good news—for certain values of good—is that the sort of fallout radiation provided by standard thermonuclear weapons has a reasonably short half-life.
  — Rupert Goodwins, Ars Technica, 25 Nov. 2017
• Pyongyang’s threat to conduct an atmospheric thermonuclear test is perhaps the most provocative action the regime could take, short of mobilizing for an attack.
  — Adam Mount, The Atlantic, 22 Sep. 2017
• The authors say their results provide a unified theory of how this transition occurs, whether in a chemical explosion on Earth or a thermonuclear one in space.
  — Edd Gent, Science | AAAS, 31 Oct. 2019
• The arms race had escalated beyond the point of reason, with both sides matching the other’s capacity to destroy the planet several times over using thermonuclear weapons.
  — Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE.com, 13 Jan. 2020

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