Thermonuclear fusion is the physical principle underlying fusion power.

* ZETA ( fusion reactor ), the Zero-Energy Toroidal ( or Thermonuclear ) Assembly reactor, a British test facility

ITER ( originally an acronym of International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor ) is an international nuclear fusion research and engineering project, which is currently building the world's largest and most advanced experimental tokamak nuclear fusion reactor at the Cadarache facility in the south of France.

Thermonuclear weapons produce a significant part of their yield from nuclear fusion.

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More recently, India and the United States signed an agreement to enhance nuclear cooperation between the two countries, and for India to participate in an international consortium on fusion research, ITER ( International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor ) so there are signs that the west wants to bring India in the Nuclear mainfold.

Thermonuclear weapons may or may not use a boosted primary stage, use different types of fusion fuel, and may surround the fusion fuel with beryllium ( or another neutron reflecting material ) instead of depleted uranium to prevent further fission from occurring.

WOPR is a form of artificial intelligence, programmed to play numerous strategy and war games, including one called Global Thermonuclear War, the purpose being to enable itself to optimally respond to any possible enemy nuclear attack.

The experimental ITER ( International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor ) power station will be built at Cadarache in the South of France and is the result of an international collaboration involving the European Union ( represented by EURATOM ), Japan, the People's Republic of China, India, the Republic of Korea, the Russia and the United States.

* December 6 – Kaname Ikeda is appointed as first Director General of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor.

Herman Kahn's innovative non-fiction book On Thermonuclear War, ( 1961 ) describing various nuclear war scenarios, was never widely popular, but the seeming outlandishness of its projections and the possibility of a " Doomsday Machine " ( an idea Kahn got from Leo Szilard before relatively small, deliverable thermonuclear weapons were developed in 1954 ) as a way to prevent war were direct inspirations for director Stanley Kubrick to handle Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb as a black comedy.

In his 1960 book On Thermonuclear War he advocated a more reasoned approach to nuclear warfare and was misunderstood by some of his critics to be a nuclear war hawk.

It played similarly to the NORAD side of the " Global Thermonuclear War " game, where the United States had to be defended from a Soviet strike by placing bases and weapons at strategic points.

Thermonuclear weapons are also less efficient at producing EMP because the first stage can pre-ionize the air which becomes conductive and hence rapidly shorts out the electron Compton currents generated by the final, larger yield thermonuclear stage.

In 1960, as Cold War tensions were near their peak following the Sputnik crisis and amidst talk of a widening " missile gap " between the U. S. and the Soviets, Kahn published On Thermonuclear War, the title of which clearly alluded to the classic 19th-century treatise on military strategy, On War, by German military strategist Carl von Clausewitz.

* Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi, The Worlds of Herman Kahn: The Intuitive Science of Thermonuclear War, Harvard University Press, ISBN 0-674-01714-5 by Christopher Coker in the Times Literary Supplement, nº 5332, 10 June 2005, p. 19.

On the computer he finds a list of games, starting with general strategy games like chess, checkers, backgammon, and poker and then progressing to titles like " Theaterwide Biotoxic ", " Chemical Warfare " and " Global Thermonuclear War ", but cannot proceed further.

He starts a game of Global Thermonuclear War, playing as the Soviet Union.

On Thermonuclear War.

Its successor, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor ( ITER ), was officially announced as part of a seven-country consortium.

It was said that Kubrick immersed himself in Kahn's book On Thermonuclear War.

On Thermonuclear War.

** The Conceptual Design Activity for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor ( ITER ), the successor to T-15, TFTR, JET and JT-60, begins.

The concept was notably discussed in Kahn's 1960 book, On Thermonuclear War.

* The Debate Over Thermonuclear Strategy ( D. C. Heath and Company, 1966 ).

Aztlan Underground is a fusion band from Los Angeles.

The ancient Indian philosophy is a fusion of two ancient traditions: Sramana tradition and Vedic tradition.

Owing to the diversity of ethnicities in Hawaii and the history of the Chinese influence in Hawaii, resident Chinese cuisine forms a component of the cuisine of Hawaii, which is a fusion of different culinary traditions.

One characteristic of American cooking is the fusion of multiple ethnic or regional approaches into completely new cooking styles.

This assay is used to disrupt gene function by creating an intragenic gene fusion.

A more stringent definition is agamogenesis which is reproduction without the fusion of gametes.

In 1950 he also proposed an idea for a controlled nuclear fusion reactor, the tokamak, which is still the basis for the majority of work in the area.

It is used as a soloing instrument in jazz, fusion, Latin, funk, and in some rock and metal styles.

This strain is further increased by fusion to a second ring, as found in most β-lactam antibiotics.

Several proteins coded for in the tra or trb locus seem to open a channel between the bacteria and it is thought that the traD enzyme, located at the base of the pilus, initiates membrane fusion.

The word " eurycerus " is originated from the fusion of " eurus " ( broad, widespread ) and " keras " ( an animal's horn ).

A benzodiazepine ( sometimes colloquially " benzo "; often abbreviated " BZD ") is a psychoactive drug whose core chemical structure is the fusion of a benzene ring and a diazepine ring.

It is classified as a Menippean satire, a fusion of allegorical tale, platonic dialogue, and lyrical poetry.

Iron is especially common because it represents the minimum energy nuclide that can be made by fusion of helium in supernovae.

A coalition government ( known in the United States as a fusion administration ) is a cabinet of a parliamentary government in which several political parties cooperate.

The CNO cycle ( for carbon – nitrogen – oxygen ) is one of two sets of fusion reactions by which stars convert hydrogen to helium, the other being the proton – proton chain.

Specifically, the timescale for beta-decay of radioactive nuclei produced is faster than the timescale for fusion.

An example is fusion cuisine, which combines elements of various culinary traditions while not being categorized per any one cuisine style, and generally refers to the innovations in many contemporary restaurant cuisines since the 1970s.

Caribbean cuisine is a fusion of African, Amerindian, European, East Indian, and Chinese cuisine.

The core of a star is kept from collapsing by the heat generated by the fusion of nuclei of lighter elements into heavier ones.

In some cases, a metacentric chromosome is formed by balanced translocation: the fusion of two acrocentric chromosomes to form one metacentric chromosome.

Cold fusion is a proposed type of nuclear reaction that would occur at, or near, room temperature, compared with temperatures in the millions of degrees that is required for " hot " fusion.