Recent Examples on the WebAttempts to find work elsewhere were blocked at every turn, despite support from multiple Nobel laureates, Groves and even H-bomb enthusiast Edward Teller.—Kc Cole, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2024 The specter of trauma has long hung over Godzilla, a creature unearthed from slumber by H-bomb testing in the 1954 original.—Esther Zuckerman, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2024 In truth, the two halves of the year’s H-bomb double bill are very different films — Dr. Strangelove is a roller coaster of mood swings, Fail Safe is deadly serious from start to finish — but both share an unquestioning faith in the dauntless courage and intrepid skill of our bomber crews.—Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019 By using fusion to power a thermonuclear reaction, H-bomb explosions can be massively more powerful than fission reactions, like that in Gadget.—Kelsey Atherton, Vulture, 26 July 2023 And this is the H-bomb, uh, several magnitudes more powerful than the atomic bomb.—Quartz Staff, Quartz, 3 Mar. 2023
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