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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 fusion is the physical principle underlying fusion power.

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

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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.

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.

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 provides that the Parties undertake not to develop, produce, stockpile, acquire or retain biological agents or toxins, of types and in quantities that have no justification for peaceful purposes, as well as weapons, equipment and means of delivery designed to use such agents or toxins for hostile purposes or in armed conflict.

Biotechnology is also used to recycle, treat waste, cleanup sites contaminated by industrial activities ( bioremediation ), and also to produce biological weapons.

The French government then proposed that France, West Germany and Italy jointly develop and produce nuclear weapons and delivery systems, and an agreement was signed in April 1958.

The massacre also prompted prominent arms designers and manufacturers to produce new types of weapons more suitable for counter-terrorism.

So-called neutron bombs ( enhanced radiation weapons ) have been constructed which release a larger fraction of their energy as ionizing radiation ( specifically, neutrons ), but these are all thermonuclear devices which rely on the nuclear fusion stage to produce the extra radiation.

On the other hand, nuclear weapons are specifically engineered to produce a reaction that is so fast and intense it cannot be controlled after it has started.

* Complex Transformation: Complex transformation, formerly known as Complex 2030, is an effort to shrink the U. S. nuclear weapons complex and restore the ability to produce “ pits ” the fissile cores of the primaries of U. S. thermonuclear weapons.

In a regional nuclear conflict scenario where two opposing nations in the subtropics would each use 50 Hiroshima-sized nuclear weapons ( about 15 kiloton each ) on major populated centers, the researchers estimated as much as five million tons of soot would be released, which would produce a cooling of several degrees over large areas of North America and Eurasia, including most of the grain-growing regions.

Larry Bray held the previous world record ( 1982 ), in which a 52 g stone was thrown 437. 1 m. Modern authorities vary widely in their estimates of the effective range of ancient weapons and of course bows and arrows could also have been used to produce a long-range arcing trajectory, but ancient writers repeatedly stress the sling's advantage of range.

After the reactor went critical in April 1998, Mahmood in an interview had said :" this reactor ( which can produce enough plutonium for two to three nuclear weapons per year ) Pakistan had " acquired the capability to produce.

In 1937, the American sociologist Read Bain wrote that " technology includes all tools, machines, utensils, weapons, instruments, housing, clothing, communicating and transporting devices and the skills by which we produce and use them.

During the later stages of World War II, the entire Cold War, and to a lesser extent afterwards, uranium-235 has been used as the fissile explosive material to produce nuclear weapons.

Valmet and the factories fused with it produce a wide array of products including paper machines, board machines, aeroplanes, automobiles, Diesel engines, locomotives, trams, trolleybuses, weapons and everyday household appliances.

The country's ability to produce and sell nuclear weapons became a focus of concern in the international community.

Within the United States the authority to produce and develop nuclear weapons was removed from military control and put instead under the civilian control of the United States Atomic Energy Commission.

Plutonium based weapons use plutonium produced in a nuclear reactor, which must be operated in such a way as to produce plutonium already of suitable isotopic mix or grade.

In order to produce enriched uranium, the process of isotope separation removes a substantial portion of the U-235 for use in nuclear power, weapons, or other uses.

Physicists have testified at United States Congressional hearings, however, that weapons with yields of 10 kilotons ( 42 TJ ) or less can produce a very large EMP.

Eliminating this perceived vulnerability reduces the incentive to produce more and advanced weapons.

The United States government built a top-secret facility to produce and separate plutonium for nuclear weapons, and decided on an area just north of then-tiny Richland.

Certain national laboratories, under the auspices of the AEC, would develop and produce nuclear weapons, while the responsibility for the use and deployment remained with the military.

A number of companies designed upgrades to work with older weapons, like the M114 155 mm howitzer, combining a new barrel from the M109 with Bull's ERFB ammunition to produce an improved weapon for relatively low cost.

In the early 1960s security concerns in the region and an apparent Soviet dismissal of these concerns hastened the DPRK's efforts to acquire the technology to produce nuclear weapons.