WordNet
n. a nuclear weapon that releases atomic energy by union of light (hydrogen) nuclei at high temperatures to form helium [syn: hydrogen bomb, H-bomb, fusion bomb]
Usage examples of "thermonuclear bomb".
The government does understand this is a thermonuclear bomb that will trigger a Medusa Wave, don't they?
If it did not close off space with a collapse, it would explode like a hundred-megaton thermonuclear bomb—.
By the late twentieth century, two megatons was the energy released in the explosion of a single more or less humdrum thermonuclear bomb: one bomb with the destructive force of the Second World War.
He was, in fact, describing the interior of a thermonuclear bomb at the moment of detonation.
George and Vicki Tate-Evans had told her (speaking in relay, impossible to interrupt) how to recognize a thermonuclear bomb flash, and how to survive.
Now that we know for certain that the old wreck is carrying a thermonuclear bomb, I just canna understand why Captain Cortes never said anything about it to us.
Pakistan has probably had the capability to assemble a thermonuclear bomb for at least the past five years.
Only Bureau personnel knew about the small thermonuclear bomb under the crossbar.
Have you ever seen what's left after you detonate a thermonuclear bomb?
Perhaps when one of them decides that we are too advanced, and bypasses several layers of defence to the anti-wasp thermonuclear bomb.
Leng was convinced that, with the invention of the thermonuclear bomb, the human race was destined to kill itself anyway, and far more efficiently than he ever could.