Sentences with phrase «hydrogen bomb explosion»

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And while the U.S. has yet to verify that the weapon was a hydrogen bomb, experts widely agree that the detonation created an explosion exceeding previous North Korean nuclear tests.

But while U.S. military scientists were able to produce this fusion event, it was uncontrolled energy; the hydrogen bomb could only be detonated through a fission explosion first.

While the IAEA could not determine if the explosion came from a hydrogen bomb as North Korea claimed, Amano said the bigger yield of this latest test means «it is safe to assume North Korea is making significant progress.»

The United States followed in January 1958 with the 31 - pound satellite Explorer I. Even as the nascent U.S. space program focused on pint - size payloads, however, a research team at an obscure division of the General Dynamics Corporation was secretly drawing up plans for a monstrous 4,000 - ton spaceship that would be powered by the sequential explosions of thousands of hydrogen bombs and would ferry hundreds of astronauts at a time across the solar system.

The sun's core is literally a nonstop hydrogen - bomb explosion that keeps the solar furnace revved up to tens of millions of degrees.

The explosion would have been the equivalent of two million hydrogen bombs.