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v. - Attack with an explosive device whose violent power is due to the sudden release of atomic energy

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  • Fusion takes place in every hydrogen-bomb explosion.
  • This was where Andrei Sakharov, the golden boy of the Soviet hydrogen-bomb program, labored for 20 years.
  • The hydrogen-bomb revolution enabled each side to rapidly expand its arsenal faster to respond to the other.
  • Chanthavar said that the Egyptian pyramids, part of the Sphinx, traces of buried cities, a couple of ruined dams in America and Russia, some hydrogen-bomb craters, were...
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