H-bomb

• “During the 1980s, Edward Teller—father of the H-bomb—promoted a radical idea for missile defense: shoot down Soviet ICBMs using high-energy X-ray lasers powered by a nuclear explosion in space.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Omega Theory

• “He talks about Harvard (dropping the H-bomb, as they say).”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » But Isn’t It a Bit Hard to Predict With a 7-Year-Old?

• “Sasha and Doug, fine job of smuggling in the old H-bomb!”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Harvard Overseer and Director Elections

• “Scientific ideas are on shakier ground because they have a practical component (see the cases about publishing the science behind the H-bomb).”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Canadian University Restricting Graphic Posters That Compare Abortion to Genocide

• “During their fourth time warp, Sawyer, Juliet, Miles, Charlotte and Faraday meet the Others (aka Hostiles) and their leaky H-bomb, Jughead.”

  'Lost': When are we?

• “The H-bomb is powered by nuclear fusion - it is a nuclear fusion reactor.”

  Critical Thinking Exercise: Bad Design

• “Meanwhile, about 85 miles from the test site -- and also outside the danger zone --radioactive ash from the H-bomb test fell on a small Japanese fishing boat, the Lucky Dragon.”

  The Huffington Post: Lawrence Wittner: How Japan Learned About "Nuclear Safety"

• “Of course, the Japanese people also have had a disastrous experience with nuclear weapons -- not only in 1945, when the U.S. government destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki with atomic bombs, but in 1954, when a U.S. government H-bomb test showered a Japanese fishing boat, the Lucky Dragon, with deadly radioactive fallout, and a vast nuclear disarmament movement began.”

  The Huffington Post: Lawrence Wittner: How Japan Learned About "Nuclear Safety"

• “Warner Brothers/Everett Collection 'The Town' Or perhaps, in an effort to capture the apocalyptic stakes said to be at issue, the Congressmen might have screened a bit of Slim Pickens in "Dr. Strangelove," who as the pilot of a B-52 steels his crew to drop an H-bomb: "Heck," he says, "I reckon you wouldn't even be human bein's if you didn't have some pretty strong personal feelin's about nuclear combat.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Searching for Cinematic Inspiration

• “The U.S. has suffered a significant strategic surprise once a decade since 1940: Pearl Harbor, the North Korean invasion of South Korea, the Soviet H-bomb test, the Soviet reaction to the Arab-Israeli War of 1973, the fall of the Shah of Iran, the collapse of the Soviet Union and, most recently, 9/11.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The President's Risky Defense Strategy

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