The material is left over from four decades of making plutonium and tritium for thermonuclear bombs at SRS . Production was ended in 1988.
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As noted above, Bravo's fallout analysis also told the outside world, for the first time, that thermonuclear bombs are more fission devices than fusion devices.
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For example, the first atomic bomb liberated about 1 gram of heat, and the largest thermonuclear bombs have generated a kilogram or more of heat.
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Hodges fears the plant will never be built and his state will become the permanent repository for the nation's surplus plutonium from dismantled thermonuclear bombs.
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In a two-stage thermonuclear bomb, a sphere of non-nuclear explosives is ignited and " implodes, " compressing an inner plutonium or uranium core to critical mass.
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The pod would then arrive at the asteroid, burrow into its surface, and set off a thermonuclear bomb, killing Virginia as well as destroying the Barrier.
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The Internet was designed by American scientists to ensure that the military had a way to communicate when the nation was being pummeled by thermonuclear bombs.
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Weapons experts say they need to conduct the tests to ensure that the main " trigger " of a thermonuclear bomb still works after decades of aging.
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Energies of thermonuclear bombs are usually given in tens of kilotons and megatons referring to the energy liberated by exploding that amount of trinitrotoluene ( TNT ).
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The 62-ton Ivy Mike device built by the United States and exploded on 1 November 1952, was the first fully successful " hydrogen bomb " or thermonuclear bomb.
