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 produce a significant part of their yield from nuclear fusion.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Thermonuclear fusion is a way to achieve nuclear fusion by using extremely high temperatures.

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.

* 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.

ITER was originally an acronym for International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, but that title was eventually dropped due to the negative popular connotations of the word " thermonuclear ", especially when used in conjunction with " experimental ".

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.

Thermonuclear fusion is the physical principle underlying fusion power.

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.

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

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

they are also trained with carbines, automatic weapons, pistols, rifles and other such ladies' accessories.

Speaking recently in Miami, Governor Rockefeller said that `` to assure the sufficiency of our own weapons in the face of the recent Soviet tests, we are now clearly compelled to conduct our own nuclear tests ''.

Nuclear weapons are fearsome, but the long-range ballistic missile gives them a stealth and merciless swiftness which is much more terrifying.

At this point it should be painfully obvious that cities, being `` soft '', and the people within them are ideally suited to destruction by nuclear weapons.

Missiles are very valuable weapons, but they also have their too little known limitations.

In reference to Brown's raid she wrote, `` though we are non-resistants and religiously believe it better to reform by moral and not by carnal weapons, we know thee was anemated by the most generous and philanthropic motives ''.

I state categorically that we shall under no circumstances resort to the use of such weapons unless they are first used by our enemies ''.

`` Purely from the business man's standpoint and without regard to the lawyer's view '', commented a trade journal, `` the matter of patents in the automobile and accessory trade is developing some phases and results that challenge thought as to how far patents are to become weapons of warfare in business, instead of simple beneficient protection devices for encouraging inventive creation ''.

We have so many new things to fear in this age of nuclear weapons, dreadful things which are too horrible to contemplate.

* 2007 – 2007 United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident: six US cruise missiles armed with nuclear warheads are flown without proper authorization from Minot Air Force Base to Barksdale Air Force Base.

Despite advances in the protection offered by ballistic armour against projectiles, as the name implies, modern ballistic body armour is much less impervious to stabbing weapons unless they are augmented with anti-knife / anti-stab armour ( usually a form of mail ).

Most modern AFVs are superficially similar in design to their World War II counterparts, with significantly better armour, weapons, engines and suspension-however with an increase in the capacity of transport aircraft allowing AFVs to be practically transported by air, many armies are replacing some or all of their traditional heavy vehicles with lighter airmobile versions, often with wheels instead of tracks.

On occasion, even the soldiers of national militaries are forced to adapt their civilian-type vehicles for combat use, often using improvised armor and scrounged weapons.

The manner in which artillery units or formations are employed is called artillery support, and may at different periods in history refer to weapons designed to be fired from ground, sea, and even air-based weapons platforms.

* Railway gun: large-caliber weapons that are mounted on, transported by and fired from specially-designed railway wagons.

They are typically longer-barreled, low-trajectory, high-velocity weapons designed primarily for a direct-fire role.

In a typical case of running amok, a male who has shown no previous sign of anger or any inclination to violence will acquire a weapon, traditionally a sword or dagger, but presently a variety of weapons are used, and in a sudden frenzy, will attempt to kill or seriously injure anyone he encounters.

In some modern board games, such as Clue, there are other pieces that are not a player's representative ( i. e. weapons ).

Bombers are not intended to attack other aircraft although many are fitted with defensive weapons.

Most utility knives are not well suited to use as offensive weapons, with the exception of some outdoor-type utility knives employing longer blades.

The oldest Australian Aboriginal boomerangs are ten thousand years old, but older hunting sticks have been discovered in Europe, where they seem to have formed part of the stone age arsenal of weapons.