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Just like that guy in Angelholm, Sweden who tried to build a thermo-nuclear bomb in his kitchen.
How to Make an Atom Bomb While Your Wife's Away Con Chapman 2011
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The Constitution does not literally say that abortion should be legal or that individuals have an absolute right to bear arms (does that mean an AK-47 or a thermo-nuclear device?).
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Plutonium and uranium can also be used to make much more powerful thermo-nuclear warheads.
North Korean nuclear plant 'not a crisis' Justin McCurry 2010
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Machon 3 – The facility includes processing of natural uranium for the reactor, and conversion of lithium 6 into a solid for use in thermo-nuclear warheads.
Should the Israelis Arrest Benny Morris? « Antiwar.com Blog 2008
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As soon as you had a large enough population, enough economic surplus, you could have coupled a thermo-nuclear power-plant to a gravity beamer and a secondary-drive pulse generator, built a hull around the ensemble, and -- ''
do you ever read writing? Peter DeWolf 2010
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About twenty minutes before it was to fall and decimate more than half a country, the thermo-nuclear warhead “Arrow” became self-aware.
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This comes from a game where I watched as a number of players ran for their lives when confronted with a thermo-nuclear device in full countdown mode. and I watched as the Game master got angry and started yelling at the players backs.
LEVERAGE: It's Practically a Single Entendre Rogers 2009
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Not, of course, the unleashing of full-scale thermo-nuclear war on the Persian people, but a limited and tactical use of nuclear weapons to destroy Iran's military facilities and its potential nuclear arsenal.
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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Not, of course, the unleashing of full-scale thermo-nuclear war on the Persian people, but a limited and tactical use of nuclear weapons to destroy Iran's military facilities and its potential nuclear arsenal.
Remember When Michael Coren Advocated That 'We Should Nuke Iran'? 2009
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Is there a respectful middle ground in the discussion of whether to have a global thermo-nuclear war?
bilby commented on the word thermo-nuclear
"The Sunday Times has revealed that an Israeli factory beneath the Negev desert is manufacturing thermo-nuclear weapons for atomic bombs.
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Hidden beneath the Negev desert, the factory has been producing atomic warheads for the past 20 years. Now it has almost certainly begun manufacturing thermo-nuclear weapons, with yields big enough to destroy entire cities, the report says."
- 'Report confirms Israel's nuclear arsenal', presstv.ir, 22 Sep 2008.
October 7, 2008