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.

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

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.

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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.

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.

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 ".

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

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.

On Thermonuclear War.

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

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.

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

On Thermonuclear War.

* 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.

** 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 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.

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

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

It has been correctly pointed out by well-informed people in the industry that it is probably unrealistic to expect a continuation of the yearly growth of 15% or better that characterized the decade of the 1950's, and that our military markets may be entering upon a new phase in which procurement of multiple weapons systems will give way to concentration of still undeveloped areas of our defense capability.

If we stop thinking in terms of tremendous multimegaton nuclear weapons and consider employing much smaller nuclear weapons which may be more appropriate for most important military targets, it would seem that the B-52 or B-70 could carry a great many small nuclear weapons.

You may have misgivings about certain aspects of our military establishment -- I certainly do -- but you know any comparison of over-all American strength with over-all Soviet strength finds the United States not only superior, but so superior both in present weapons and in the development of new ones that our advantage promises to be a permanent feature of U.S.-Soviet relations for the foreseeable future.

* Article 1 – The area to be used for peaceful purposes only ; military activity, such as weapons testing, is prohibited but military personnel and equipment may be used for scientific research or any other peaceful purpose ;

These weapons may be mounted on a pintle, affixed directly to the vehicle or placed in a turret or cupola.

Its mission may be to support the development, testing, and training phases for new aircraft weapons systems or research projects.

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.

However, even small razor-blade type utility knives may sometimes find use as slashing weapons.

Biological weapons may be employed in various ways to gain a strategic or tactical advantage over an adversary, either by threats or by actual deployments.

Like some of the chemical weapons, biological weapons may also be useful as area denial weapons.

Therefore, biological agents may be useful as strategic deterrents in addition to their utility as offensive weapons on the battlefield.

The traditional approach toward protecting agriculture, food, and water: focusing on the natural or unintentional introduction of a disease is being strengthened by focused efforts to address current and anticipated future biological weapons threats that may be deliberate, multiple, and repetitive.

In 1950 American president Harry S. Truman said that atomic weapons may be used in the Korean War.

" 20: 9 It may be that the images of fire raining down are an ancient vision of modern weapons, others would say a supernatural intervention by God, yet others that they refer to events in history, and some would say they are symbolic of larger ideas and should not be interpreted literally.

A list of firearms not covered by the NFA due to their antique status may be found here or due to their Curio and Relic status may be found here ; these lists includes a number of carbines with barrels less than the minimum legal length and firearms that are " primarily collector's items and are not likely to be used as weapons and, therefore, are excluded from the provisions of the National Firearms Act.

It opposes military action that may result in the use of nuclear, chemical or biological weapons and the building of nuclear power stations in the UK.

Students learn how terrorists may choose targets, what weapons they may use, and identifying when chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, or explosive weapons may have been deployed.