fusion bomb

British  

noun

1. Also called: thermonuclear bomb.   fission-fusion bomb.  a type of bomb in which most of the energy is provided by nuclear fusion, esp the fusion of hydrogen isotopes See also hydrogen bomb

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Example Sentences

That proved unrealistic, and just as a fusion bomb took a back burner to a fission weapon during the war, civilian fusion power took a back burner to fission after the war.

From Scientific American • Jun. 5, 2023

Physicist Edward Teller wanted to focus their attention on building a fusion bomb.

From Scientific American • Jun. 5, 2023

A nuclear weapon is a certain thing—atomic or hydrogen, fission or fusion, bomb or missile, so many megatons—but nothing could be more uncertain than the consequences of using one.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 22, 2017

Knowing that fusion produces several times more energy per kilogram of fuel than fission, some scientists pushed the idea of a fusion bomb starting very early on.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

The physics gets complicated, and some of it’s still classified, but the key point is that they figured out a way to ignite a fusion bomb using the X-rays produced by a fission blast.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin