Martin Rees

Over most of history, threats have come from nature - disease, earthquakes, floods, and so forth. But the worst now come from us. We've entered a geological era called the anthropocene. This started, perhaps, with the invention of thermonuclear weapons.

British Scientist

Herman Kahn

In 1960 I published a book that attempted to direct attention to the possibility of a thermonuclear war, to ways of reducing the likelihood of such a war, and to methods for coping with the consequences should war occur despite our efforts to avoid it.

American Scientist

Ronald Kessler

During the Cuban Missile Crisis, decisions made by President John F. Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev could have plunged both countries into thermonuclear war.

American Journalist

Lawrence M. Krauss

It's all too easy to imagine Trump issuing an ultimate, thermonuclear 'You're fired!' to China, Iran, or another nation - and perhaps to the whole human race.

American Physicist

Larry Niven

The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.

American Writer

Kesha Rogers

If Obama commits thermonuclear war, I won't have to worry about November and neither will you.

American Politician

Lewis Thomas

If we are to be destroyed we will do it ourselves by warfare with thermonuclear weaponry.

Thermonuclear reactions require extreme heat, typically found in stars or very controlled lab conditions.

High Temperatures

The term is mostly used in physics and astronomy to describe processes in stars or energy production.

Science Context

Differentiate between thermonuclear (fusion) and atomic (fission) reactions; both release energy but have distinct processes.

Fusion vs. Fission

When used about weapons, it implies destructive power far greater than conventional or atomic bombs.

Weapon Connotation

Thermonuclear war talks in politics or media evoke fear of large-scale destruction and international conflict.

Political Tension

 but in this case, the ball would be going so fast that the air molecules wouldn't have time to move out of the way. The ball would smash right into and through them, and the collisions with these air molecules would knock away the nitrogen, carbon and hydrogen from the ball, fragmenting it off into tiny particles, and also triggering waves of thermonuclear fusion

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 "I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this." Okay, so in other words, great artists steal, but not from me. Now, behavioral economists might refer to this sort of thing as loss aversion We have a strong predisposition towards protecting what we feel is ours. We have no such aversion towards copying

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 So we're going to have to go all-out thermonuclear response, stimulate the total cytokine cascade. The whole immune system swarms into the lungs. And yes they die, drowning in their own fluids, of pneumonia. But it's not bacterial pneumonia. And it's not a pneumonia that would respond to a vaccine.

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 it comes together and it fuses and ignites a thermonuclear reaction. And so what you're watching is the birth of stars. These are stars being born out of here. When enough stars come out, they create a galaxy. This one happens to be a particularly important galaxy,

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 hydrogen nuclei inside of the cores begin to fuse and create helium. It is this chemical reaction, thermonuclear fusion that generates a star's heat and energy and causes it to shine. Stars are categorized by a number of characteristics.

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 and it fuses and ignites a thermonuclear reaction and so what you're watching is the birth of stars these are stars being born out of here when enough stars come out they create a galaxy this one happens to be a particularly important

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 and, using a Norden bombsight, dropped a very large thermonuclear device on the city of Hiroshima. And as was typical with the Norden bombsight, the bomb actually missed its target by 800 ft. But of course, it didn't matter.

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 after the event?" By "the event" they mean the thermonuclear war or climate catastrophe or social unrest that ends the world as we know it, and more importantly, makes their money obsolete. And I couldn't help but

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 But I also grew up in a time where there was something to fear. We were brought out in the hall when I was a little kid and taught how to put our coats over our heads to protect us from global thermonuclear war.

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 Called thermonuclear fusion this releases an enormous amount of energy in the form of radiation Electricity solar wind and as we experience on earth Life-giving heat and light